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As a business in the 21st century, you’re online. Along with your work establishing an organic presence, a successful brand should also be investing in digital advertising. This includes search engine ads, which provide you with a handful of settings to play with. Among these are the match types — broad, broad modified, phrase and exact. All are great, but a common mistake is over-relying on phrase match. If you suspect you might do this — or just need to begin working on your search ads at all — we’ve […]
When you’re running a campaign with search ads, the first thing that you think of doing is probably bidding on search terms that are directly related to your product, company, or brand. And that’s good! However, it shouldn’t overshadow the importance of competitor keyword bidding. Competitor keyword bidding is simple: running ads for keywords related to a competitor. This is an easy way to get more views and traffic by people who are looking for a competitor. However, this works both ways — if you employ a tactic like this […]
At Fujisan, we often hear people ask, “How do I know my digital advertising is performing at its best?” Well, if you aren’t auditing your PPC campaign, you don’t. The good news is that a PPC audit isn’t rocket science. Here are some areas to consider when approaching yours: Past Traffic & Performance This is a pretty standard foundation to start from. After all, how can you know how the account performs if you can’t compare to past metrics? Just like with all analysis, numbers need context. Ideally, the account […]
At Fujisan, there are a handful of pitfalls we regularly see when conducting PPC audits or taking over account management. Otherwise well-run Google Ads accounts will end up underperforming due to just one or two neglected factors. Here are some of the things we run into that will hurt your digital marketing efforts: Few or No Optimizations in the Change History The change history is a tool that allows you to view any changes you’ve made to your Google Ads account — all changes from the past two years will […]
So, you want to improve your Google Ads campaigns? Enter Google Ads Campaign Experiments, or ACE for short. ACE is a feature that helps you measure the impact of potential changes before applying them to a campaign. When used properly, it does this as a vehicle for A/B testing. As we discussed in our previous post, A/B testing is essentially a process applying basic scientific principles to digital advertising. Following the first things we learned in elementary school science, this is achieved by comparing two versions of a campaign wherein […]
Seeing as it’s 2020, we’ll assume you’re well-versed in YouTube advertising at least from the point of view of a YouTube viewer. Given how familiar we all are with YouTube ads, that certainly gives you (along with all advertisers) an advantage with this medium; from a content perspective, you know exactly what makes a YouTube ad insufferable (or worse, immemorable) versus what makes an ad on this platform effective. Other than its properties as a vehicle for content, YouTube has other benefits that are more in line with the focus […]
When it comes to PPC, it’s not a matter of hitting some settings and then just assuming they’ll do the trick. Well, we suppose you could do that, but it’s probably not a great call. The problem is that PPC campaigns and the factors involved in their success (or lack thereof) are not static — the internet and advertising thereon can be somewhat fickle, plus it’s likely you won’t have all the specs of your campaign perfectly dialed in at first. Hence, to get the most out of a campaign, […]
Forget your experience with online marketing for a moment — what’s your process as a purchaser of items online? Initial things that come to mind are probably searching, browsing, filtering – and then? Would we be correct in guessing that ads pop up (no pun intended) somewhere after those? Whether you consciously thought about them or not when answering that question, ads on the digital marketplace — Amazon, specifically — are a huge part of the equation. A refresher on Amazon advertising and how it works Amazon ads are pretty […]
With all the venues on which to advertise, sometimes choosing which platforms to use can get overwhelming. But if you want one where ads can be precisely placed at the right time thanks to the platform’s massive array of user information — Amazon has all your bases covered. Love it or hate it, your audience is very likely on Amazon already. Amazon is a platform used by thousands of people every day to find everything from handmade soaps from artisan crafters to the newest gaming console to entire smart home […]
So, now you know the what and why of link building (or, if you don’t, check it out in our part one article here), but what about the how? In case that last line wasn’t obvious enough, that’s what we’re going to talk about right… wait for it… now. Types of links and what they mean Before we dive into the tactics of link building, let’s review the different link types and how search engines treat them. These link types are called link attributes, and they’re a way of qualifying […]
