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September 10, 2018August 30, 2018

Are More Demanding Customers Coming Your Way?

Nancy C. McCord CEO of McCord Web Services

Google has recently revealed research based on micro moments and customer buying patterns to Google Partners. Of particular interest are several trends

Customers are more demanding.
“Near Me” searches have decreased by 150% over the last 2 years.
Use of a zip code in a search query has declined 30%.

Google data shows that consumers want more useful information, more personalization, and more immediacy.

The reason for the decrease in activity on “near me” and zip code specific searches are that consumers expect the results to be location and self-specific. This change has been driven by the mobile micro-moment, as Google calls it, – the I want to know, I want to buy, I want to go mentality.

One important trend that you can leverage on your website and in Google AdWords due to dynamic keyword insertion is the use of “best” in a search query. Consumers want the “best” toothbrush, “best” web designer, “best” lawyer and so on.

In fact in the research Google states that “best” related keyword search activity has grown by 80% in the past two years.

In addition, consumers are demanding personalized localization – meaning the delivery of results that are uniquely personal and based on their own location. Mobile apps leverage results by GPS location and websites can enhance results by providing location cues and data sortable by location.

In addition to more localization, Google has identified that 50% of all mobile users will typically make an immediate purchase after a successful mobile search.

Google is identifying other important trends and sharing them with Google Partners as we work to leverage this information to help our client’s better market their products and services on Google AdWords.

August 22, 2018August 17, 2018

Google Ads Report Editor Dashboards

Our clients and our team love the new Report Editor and Dashboards.

It used to take my team 8 to 10 hours of time to prepare, create, and send out our monthly client AdWords reports. Now with the Google Ads Report Editor and Dashboard reporting we are able to cut our reporting time in half.

The Google Ads Report Editor is a powerful tool to create custom reports. I use the Report Editor heavily, but I like it best for being able to import these reports into Dashboards that I can set up to run on demand or on a schedule.

It is time consuming to set up the reports and Dashboard. It will typically take me from 18 to 36 minutes per Dashboard. But, clients love the data, and I love the ability to tell a visually interesting story of what is happening with a client’s Google Ads account.

I will typically start my Dashboard out with my own custom commentary, show an account scorecard for total account activity at a glance. Then I get into the meat – I will import bar graphs of clicks and conversions by day of the week, table data for campaigns and ad groups, pie charts of clicks by device and activity by conversion source.

If the client likes a specific report like a keyword detail or location of people that have clicked their ad, it is easy to create those reports in the Report Editor and add them to a Dashboard.

For large accounts we will set up both weekly and monthly Dashboards. If you want to know more about our Google Ads consulting services, I invite you to visit our website today.

August 20, 2018August 17, 2018

Google Ads Introduces Responsive Search Ads

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New to Google Ads are responsive search ads. Not all accounts will see this option yet, but for many of our big accounts we are starting set up now.

A responsive text ads consists of the following items.

Six 30 character headlines.
Two 90 character descriptions.
A final URL.
Two 15 character paths.

Additionally Google gives some additional best practices for setting up your responsive search ads.

Google recommends only using a keyword in your account or dynamic keyword insertion in two of your six headlines. They recommend that other headlines mention, price, shipping, a unique feature, or a special promotion.

When Google Ads renders the ads your ad assets can be bundled in any number of ways by device. You may see three headlines, two headlines, or one head line and a description, or even two headlines and one description. It is all Google Ads choice.

Setting up the responsive search ads take about 12 to 18 minutes each. We are currently testing versions in client accounts. Will they convert better than a typical search ad? Google Ads says yes, so the time investment to create them is valuable.

To find out more about our AdWords consulting services, please visit our website.

July 4, 2018June 29, 2018

Consumers Embrace Pay Per Click Ads

Nancy McCord a Google Partner and Bing Partner

Consumers have embraced pay per click ads! No longer do users of Google or Bing scroll to see the organic search results, rather they are clicking the first and second pay per click ads on a page, and especially when on a smartphone.

Over the years, pay per click ads have become more relevant than even the organic listings. And, as the organic listings are getting harder to find, click activity is happening at the top of the page.

With the advent of personalized search, sophisticated device tracking, and a myriad of ad extensions that selectively show, tailored to the user’s history, intent, and location, pay per click is usurping the place of organic search results on the Web.

As user’s hurry to make decisions and want information tailored to their personal needs, the dynamic nature and relevancy of ad serving is revolutionizing web searches.

With deep sitelinks, listings of services, current promotions, maps of your store location, and click to call buttons, these new ad versions are attractive for consumers to click and give immediate results.

As we watch many client accounts, we see pay per click traffic numbers are on the rise and organic numbers are declining in our monthly Google Analytics action reports. For businesses this sets a new landscape for the Web – one that is now pay to play, and it’s big business for Google and Bing.

Think that you don’t need to get involved in pay per click advertising? Take a careful review of the search results page on your desktop and smartphone. With shrinking organic real estate and with most organic search results now below the page fold, consumers are making decisions and clicking on ads and in many cases not even looking at organic listings.

If you are ready to try Google Ads, Bing Ads or just learn more about pay per click advertising, I invite you to browse our website at www.McCordWeb.com.