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Google Adwords 2018

Hello Google Ads!

If you aren’t already aware of Google’s major marketing change this year, you’re about to find out. Google AdWords made a major change to their

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Miscellaneous Monday

Government Shutdown PPC in 2013

The Government Shutdown is not bad for everyone.

These advertisers are getting some exposure because of the government shutdown. I knew it! I knew that if I went to Google to search for ‘Government Shutdown’ I would find advertisers there. Who can blame them? If they have content about the shutdown, they have a right to pay for it to be seen.

Interesting note: Google does not show ads on the first page of the SERPs. You have to go to page 2 in order to see the ads.

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Adwords CPA miscalc - Weekly

Adwords is Miscalculating Your CPA & It’s been Getting Worse

Today @robert_brady confirmed what a number of PPC practitioners have feared. Google Adwords is miscalculating your CPAs (Cost per Conversions). Check out his article here.

After hearing the news we dug into one of our accounts and did some pay-per-click data analysis. While our numbers didn’t turn out as dramatically as Robert’s did we did find solid and statistical evidence that:

  1. Yes Google Adwords is Miscalculating your PPC CPAs
  2. It’s Getting Worse
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