Paid Search

What is a Google Performance Max Campaign? Performance Max is a highly-automated type of Google Ads campaign that uses Smart Bidding across multiple ad types to achieve your campaign objective. The primary differentiator between Performance Max and other Google campaign types is the degree of automation - this campaign type automates everything from audience targeting to ad creative in real-time. Moreover, unlike other campaign types, Performance Max uses machine...

January 5, 2022

Over the past few years, Google Ads has added more and more automated optimization features to its platform, from smart bidding to auto-generated ad copy to targeting recommendations. With new features designed to automate optimization across all aspects of campaign management, advertisers have a growing set of tools to evaluate and improve account performance. Google’s “Opportunities Tab” has evolved into a full-fledged optimization suggestion engine, complete with a...

September 2, 2021

Apple has released iOS 14, and with it, a new policy that gives their users unparalleled transparency on in-app data tracking and online privacy. This move, built off of recent legal policies in California and the EU, has widespread implications for not only the world of digital marketing but the tech industry across the globe. In This Article: What is iOS 14 and Why Does it Matter? Why is...

February 24, 2021

Cybersecurity and online privacy is a growing concern among many Americans. Between the rapidly-evolving internet and the lethargic process of enacting laws, the balance between businesses’ legal access to users’ information and consumers’ right to privacy is prone to large swings one direction or the other. The latest swing comes out of California in the form of CCPA, a law that has long-lasting implications for the digital marketing...

August 5, 2020

Picture this: you've just finished developing the perfect mobile app and you can't wait to let the world know about it. First, you’ll need to generate a bunch of installs - and quick! But your ultimate goal will be to drive real user engagement and actions in the app, not just installs. You're not sure how to advertise your app to meet all of these different goals. Furthermore,...

May 8, 2020

Store visit conversions help advertisers measure how much foot traffic their Google ads are driving to their physical store locations. A store visit conversion is recorded when someone visits your physical store after clicking on or viewing one of your Google ads. Since their original roll-out in 2014, store visits have helped thousands of advertisers - particularly retailers, restaurants, auto dealerships and hotels - bridge the divide in the...

November 6, 2019

Google has announced the finalists for their 2019 Premier Partner Awards. Effective Spend joins other top PPC marketing agencies as a finalist in the Shopping Excellence category. The Shopping Excellence award is presented to the agency that demonstrates the best use of Google Shopping Ads to drive more sales for their clients.  “This is an exciting nomination for us,” said Brian Wulfe, Founder & CEO of Effective Spend. “It...

August 30, 2019

Consumers are building deeper and, at times, questionable relationships with their smart devices. As a result, we’ve begun to have conversations with these handheld or virtual assistant devices as if they were humans. This gives marketers and brands a whole new way to reach and connect with these users. As such, it’s important to consider a voice search advertising strategy. Below, let’s take a look at what voice...

April 15, 2019

Springtime brings with it the annual Hero Conf, where PPC marketers from all over the country (nay, the world!) gather to immerse themselves in all things digital advertising. The conference offered more than 40 sessions with topics ranging from visual search to “Moneyball Analytics”. If you missed it this year, have no FOMO. Effective Spend sent three of our own PPCers to represent and report back on the top...

April 30, 2018

For many digital marketers, machine learning is the clear next step for paid search. In the age of Alexa, Siri and Google Home, artificial intelligence and more specifically, machine learning has taken a front seat in everyday life and now digital marketing. In a recent Search Engine Watch post, they described machine learning as taking artificial intelligence a step further by eliminating the need for human input in...

March 19, 2018
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