In the fast-paced world of digital marketing, it’s easy to make mistakes that can cost your business time, money, and credibility. Here are five common digital marketing mistakes and how you can avoid them to ensure your campaigns are successful and efficient. Neglecting a Clear Strategy Mistake: Diving into digital...
In the world of digital marketing, paid search advertising is a powerful tool for driving targeted traffic to your website and reaching potential customers. However, optimising your paid search campaigns requires more than just selecting the right keywords—it also involves understanding the concept of negative keywords. Negative keywords play a...
PPC (Pay-Per-Click) advertising is a powerful digital marketing strategy that allows businesses to reach their target audience and drive conversions effectively. While many marketers focus on driving immediate sales with PPC campaigns, adopting a full-funnel approach can unlock even greater potential by targeting users at every stage of the buyer’s...
Google Ads, formerly known as Google AdWords, is a powerful digital advertising platform that can drive traffic, leads, and sales to your business. However, simply creating ads and campaigns isn’t enough; optimisation is the key to achieving the best results. Read on for some tips. 1. Keyword Refinement One of...
Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising is a dynamic and results-driven approach that has revolutionised the way businesses promote their products and services online. Understanding PPC Advertising Pay-Per-Click advertising is a digital marketing model where advertisers pay a fee each time their ad is clicked. It’s a highly targeted form of advertising that...
In the dynamic world of digital marketing, staying ahead of the competition is a constant challenge. With search engines continuously evolving their algorithms and user preferences changing, it’s crucial for businesses and website owners to adapt their strategies. One powerful approach that has gained significant importance is harnessing SERP (Search...
In today’s digital landscape, businesses face fierce competition for online visibility. With social media platforms becoming increasingly crowded, organic reach alone is often not enough to achieve desired results. This is where paid social media advertising comes into play. By investing in paid social, businesses can strategically amplify their reach,...
SEO and PPC are two critical components of digital marketing. Both are essential for driving traffic to a website, increasing brand awareness, and generating leads and sales. While SEO focuses on organic search traffic, PPC involves paid advertising to target specific audiences. Many marketers wonder if they should focus on...
PPC is a great way to bring in high-quality leads, gain exposure, and most importantly – maximise your sales. The nature of search and the data Google collects allows you to be specific with your targeting so you’re not just blowing your budget on any old clicks. If you’re not...
With too many references, terms and jargon to navigate it can be an ordeal to find out just what you’re after. Many clients ask us what these terms exactly mean, and we want to make sure you have all the knowledge before going ahead with something. In the Analytics world...
Facebook, despite the negative press it gets, still has lots to offer from a marketing perspective. It remains one of the most popular sites on the internet, sitting behind Google in 3rd place. For larger businesses, it also offers scalability. With its user base sitting at 2.912 billion worldwide, businesses...
If you run an eCommerce business (a company that sells goods and/or services online), you may be wondering how you can market your business to increase your sales. It’s certainly important to consider various tactics that can attract new customers and encourage existing customers to return, otherwise your profits will...
Nowadays, particularly in light of the global pandemic, charities have struggled to appeal for face-to-face donations and have had to adapt to new methods of marketing. Lots of non-profit organisations can actually benefit significantly from PPC marketing. As a non-profit organisation, you may shy away from pay-per-click marketing for the...
The global pandemic has undeniably had a huge impact on the majority of businesses throughout 2020, whether for better or for worse, and it’s showing no signs of slowing down just yet. So, how does that affect our digital marketing strategies in 2021? While we should always try and harness...
Independent schools are businesses and attracting admissions is as important as an electrician finding clients or a clothes store drawing in customers. Fortunately, there are lots of online marketing methods you can adopt to help you target a specific audience in a measurable way, without relying on traditional strategies like...
A new Digital Services Tax (DST) is being imposed in Europe as part of the Government’s attempt to get big tech giants to pay more to the exchequer. However, Google have decided to pass this tax onto advertisers in the UK, Austria and Turkey, from the 1st of November 20202....
As Paid Advertising is always changing, so do new features and developments in the industry. It is crucially important for all PPC Marketers to stay up to the date with upcoming trends so we can make sure we’re getting the best out of our clients campaigns, and so that we’re...
In June of 2019, for the first time ever, a majority of all browser based searches on Google resulted in zero clicks. First of all, what does that mean? More people are going to Google and doing more searches but less people are clicking on results. Google is now presenting...
PPC (Pay-Per-Click) advertising is the process of directing traffic to your school website through paid advertisements that appear on Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS) where the advertiser only pays once a user has clicked on the advert. Paid Advertising has quickly become the marketing channel of choice for many businesses...
Google rolled out 7 new updates in July and in this post we’ll explain what’s been happening and what it means for PPC marketers. Google Ads Editor v1.1 This update will create some efficiencies that we haven’t seen before. We’ll be able to find our images more quickly, keep existing...
If you own a website and you want people to buy your products, revisit your website or sign up to your newsletter, you’ll need to properly understand their search intent. Simply put, search intent is the reason why people are conducting a particular search. Is it because they want to...
Last month Google announced they are getting rid of the Average Position metric. This ties directly into the November announcement of the Impression (Absolute Top) % and Impression (Top) % which describe what percent of your ads appear at the top of the page and the absolute top of the...
Facebook has begun testing Search Ads in the US and Canada for automotive, retail and e-commerce businesses. In this article we will look at how they work, and can they compete with Google? Facebook first tried this in 2012 but had quickly shut it down by 2013. Now, for select...
With almost 500 million products listed on Amazon, it can be hard to get yours noticed organically. Fortunately, Amazon is continuing to make dents in the market and offers a completely viable option as an advertising platform. At the end of 2018, Amazon was making up around 50% of the...
As we close out 2018 we can now reflect on what was a huge year for Pay Per Click advertising. Starting at Google, there were massive changes as they rebranded AdWords to Google Ads and launched the new interface. They also launched many new campaign types, targeting options, tools and...
In November of this year, Google released four new search ad position metrics. They’re being rolled out to account any time now so don’t worry if they’re not available in yours yet, they will be soon. Here we will discuss and explain the new metrics and how you can adjust...
When people think of doing paid advertising, their first thought is often Google but we want to explore other avenues for our advertising efforts. It is no secret that the Market Share of Google has been dropping, on the whole, since May 2015. The image below, provided by www.statista.com indicates...
You may have seen a Google Partner logo like this one but not been completely sure what it means or what the benefits of working with a Digital Marketing Agency with a Google Partner Badge are. In Googles own words ‘The Google Partner badge shows that specific Partners have passed...
In this post we are going to explain how you can uncover which brands and products are most popular and whether they are trending up or down so we can keep a close eye on our competitors. On the 16th of October, Google released a new version of their Shopping...
Many advertisers have definitely bought into the practice of bidding on search terms that include a brand name, but often we will see clients question the validity of this. They ask, and fairly so, what’s the point if I’m going to show up anyway? That is the question as Paid...
Pay Per Click advertising is often a crucial channel towards an online marketing campaign and in turn, can be one of the most expensive. Because of this, it becomes vital to keep testing your ads to make sure you are getting the most return on your spend, and not leaving...
As a performance marketer you are likely to be judged and measured on the success of your campaigns in terms of revenue delivered. Because of this, you need to know the answer to this question for when the directors come calling: Are your campaigns driving revenue? Of course, if you...
Today we are going to give you three top tips for getting the best out of your keyword research. These are tricks that we use to help us find you the best keyword for your business that can be done by anyone. Google Keyword Planner: This is usually where most...
Once you have set up and started seeing some success in your campaigns, your first thought was probably “I want more of that”. And that’s completely logical. Fortunately for us, Google Ads provides us enough data so we can understand what types of keywords are performing the best, on which...
Retargeting is a marketing tactic used to convert visitors to your site who haven’t yet purchased from you. You can see which pages users are visiting to determine which products they were looking at and then show them a customised advert to try and get them back to buy. Here...
The Google Shopping unit has been growing exponentially over the past few years and it shows no sign of slowing down. As of Q1 2018, Google Shopping Ads are driving 82% of retail search ad spend in the UK. According to Adthena, the 82% of retail ad spend in Google...
If you’re considering creating a PPC campaign on Google and unsure where and how to start, it’s important to know how to get the most from your AdWords account. In one of our previous PPC-related post, we talked about the most common mistakes people are making and now we are...
If you’ve been involved in PPC advertising for any length of time, you’ll know that the advert copy plays a crucial role in determining the success or failure of a campaign. Even if you have mastered bid strategies, got a great keyword set and a beautiful landing page it can...
Quality score is a metric tracked in Google AdWords that gives each of the keywords in your account a score out of 10. It determines whether your advert is eligible to be shown in the sponsored space of the search results and how much you’ll pay for each click. It...
In a nutshell, retargeting is an advertising strategy where you put your adverts in front of people who have visited your website, but then clicked away and gone on to other websites. It enables us to target people who have shown an interest in products or specific pages yet they...
