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Five great tools to improve PPC ads

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Every digital marketer wants to reach the top position on the search engine results. However, if you’ve recently launched a new website or your niche is saturated, starting with paid search ads sounds like a good idea.

Strategically created PPC campaigns can drive leads, sales or sign-ups to your websites. You know what? In fact, businesses earn an average of $8 for every dollar they spend on Google Ads.

Optimizing PPC campaigns is not easy, but it’s very powerful if you do it properly. Just like SEO, it is essential to conduct extensive keyword research, optimize ad copy, and design high-converting landing pages.

Fortunately, there are a lot of effective PPC tools that will help you analyze your competitors’ PPC strategies, figure out tricks in their campaigns, and improve your PPC campaigns.

If you are ready to take an evolutionary leap in your PPC advertising, take a look at my list of five amazing tools to save you time, give you crucial insights, and raise money for your business.

Five tools to improve PPC ads

1. WordStream Advisor: Streamline your PPC campaigns at scale

WordStream offers a pretty neat tool that is targeted to small and medium-sized business owners who want to manage their PPC campaigns across advertising platforms properly. The tool can integrate with different PPC channels like Google Ads, Facebook, Bing, and Instagram.

One of the best features is the 20-Minute Work Week, a workflow that includes 9 items to help you improve the overall PPC process. It will analyze everything: get suggestions for ad budget and ad changes, identify valuable and negative keywords, split up ad groups, and create reports around conversion and call data. You can read more about it here.

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The true worth of WordStream is the fact that they adapt and integrate all of the changes and upgrades when it comes to Google and its algorithm updates. So, you don’t need to constantly check them.

Cost: Free trial for 7 days, paid plans start at $299/month for 3-month plans.

2. SE Ranking: Comprehensive keyword and competitor analysis

SE Ranking PPC research tool focuses on keyword research, competitor analysis, and advertising campaign planning. When researching competitors on SE Ranking, you can enter your domain to find a list of websites that compete with you in paid search.

You can also find which keywords they are using, which ads drive the most traffic, how they rank in search engines, and how their ads look like in paid search. The tool shows competitor’s data like search volume, CPC, KEI, traffic cost, and a number of clicks.

Going to the “Adverts history” section, you can get visual graphs of the previous stats by time period, which displays position, monthly budget, and keywords. Having this information allows you to see all competitors’ keywords they have bid on in the past and figure out whether you should take a similar bidding strategy.

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You can easily export all the necessary information into an Excel file that you can share with your team. You can check it out in action here.

Cost: Paid plans start around $39 per month. SE Ranking provides a 14-day free trial and demo account.

3. Finteza: Conduct an impactful PPC analysis

Finteza is an advanced advertising analytics tool that shows you the exact percentage of high-quality and low-quality traffic coming to your website. The tool includes collection, processing, and instant data mapping through real-time charts and reports to give the most important information whenever you need it.

Finteza provides plenty of options to create, configure and target marketing campaigns for any website and instantly pull out detailed reports and statistics on clicks, impressions, and conversions of your ads.

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You can also set up different conversion goals, and even use the retargeting option to display your optimized ads to the users who have performed a certain action on your website. The tool offers integrations with multiple CMS systems.

One of its biggest advantages is to track end-to-end user interaction. It means that the software provides data of all advertising platforms from which you purchase traffic and enables you to adapt them to individual conversions.

You can get the full list of Finteza’s features here.

Cost: The software offers a 30-day trial, and pricing starts at $4/month.

4. Unbounce: Build dedicated landing pages

Effective landing pages are crucial for the overall PPC process. At the very least, your ad will get them there, but conversions happen on landing pages. Creating a solid one with tools like Unbounce intended to simplify the whole process.

The tool includes a wide range of awesome features like A/B testing, dynamic text replacement, AMP landing pages, and real-time data dashboard. You can quickly change the text on your custom landing page to match what users are searching for, and split test them without touching a single line of code.

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Unbounce offers over 100 high-converting templates for every type of landing page you need (sales pages, ebooks, events, products, webinar, etc.). It works with tons of in-app integrations and thousands more through Zapier.

Cost: Pricing starts at $79 per month, but you can try out a 14-day free trial.

5. Bannersnack: Display ad image creation and inspiration

The main purpose of advertising is to make people curious about your products. If you design banner ads that have interactive content, people are far more likely to click on them. One of the best solutions to do that is Bannersnack.

The tool is designed for advertising specialists to save their time and efforts on designing banners of different sizes. You can create both animated and static banners from scratch or select one of its high-quality templates created by professional designers and optimized by marketers.

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One of its most convenient features is the ability to create the entire banner set on one toolbar within minutes. The banner maker is compatible with all major ad networks, Facebook Ads, Google Ads, and social networks. One of the recent features is the option to create AMPHTML ads.

Cost: Freemium; paid plans start from $7 per month.

Wrap up

Using the right PPC tools, you can find out your competitors’ best performing keywords, ad copy information, and much more. They help you save a lot of time and efforts as you know what marketing strategies your competitors are using to get maximum results and reach.

What PPC tools do you use and love? Share your views in the comments below.

Irina Weber is Brand Manager at SE Ranking. She can be found on Twitter .

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YouTube Ad Specs, Sizes, and Examples [2024 Update]

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YouTube Ad Specs, Sizes, and Examples

Introduction

With billions of users each month, YouTube is the world’s second largest search engine and top website for video content. This makes it a great place for advertising. To succeed, advertisers need to follow the correct YouTube ad specifications. These rules help your ad reach more viewers, increasing the chance of gaining new customers and boosting brand awareness.

Types of YouTube Ads

Video Ads

  • Description: These play before, during, or after a YouTube video on computers or mobile devices.
  • Types:
    • In-stream ads: Can be skippable or non-skippable.
    • Bumper ads: Non-skippable, short ads that play before, during, or after a video.

Display Ads

  • Description: These appear in different spots on YouTube and usually use text or static images.
  • Note: YouTube does not support display image ads directly on its app, but these can be targeted to YouTube.com through Google Display Network (GDN).

Companion Banners

  • Description: Appears to the right of the YouTube player on desktop.
  • Requirement: Must be purchased alongside In-stream ads, Bumper ads, or In-feed ads.

In-feed Ads

  • Description: Resemble videos with images, headlines, and text. They link to a public or unlisted YouTube video.

Outstream Ads

  • Description: Mobile-only video ads that play outside of YouTube, on websites and apps within the Google video partner network.

Masthead Ads

  • Description: Premium, high-visibility banner ads displayed at the top of the YouTube homepage for both desktop and mobile users.

YouTube Ad Specs by Type

Skippable In-stream Video Ads

  • Placement: Before, during, or after a YouTube video.
  • Resolution:
    • Horizontal: 1920 x 1080px
    • Vertical: 1080 x 1920px
    • Square: 1080 x 1080px
  • Aspect Ratio:
    • Horizontal: 16:9
    • Vertical: 9:16
    • Square: 1:1
  • Length:
    • Awareness: 15-20 seconds
    • Consideration: 2-3 minutes
    • Action: 15-20 seconds

Non-skippable In-stream Video Ads

  • Description: Must be watched completely before the main video.
  • Length: 15 seconds (or 20 seconds in certain markets).
  • Resolution:
    • Horizontal: 1920 x 1080px
    • Vertical: 1080 x 1920px
    • Square: 1080 x 1080px
  • Aspect Ratio:
    • Horizontal: 16:9
    • Vertical: 9:16
    • Square: 1:1

Bumper Ads

  • Length: Maximum 6 seconds.
  • File Format: MP4, Quicktime, AVI, ASF, Windows Media, or MPEG.
  • Resolution:
    • Horizontal: 640 x 360px
    • Vertical: 480 x 360px

In-feed Ads

  • Description: Show alongside YouTube content, like search results or the Home feed.
  • Resolution:
    • Horizontal: 1920 x 1080px
    • Vertical: 1080 x 1920px
    • Square: 1080 x 1080px
  • Aspect Ratio:
    • Horizontal: 16:9
    • Square: 1:1
  • Length:
    • Awareness: 15-20 seconds
    • Consideration: 2-3 minutes
  • Headline/Description:
    • Headline: Up to 2 lines, 40 characters per line
    • Description: Up to 2 lines, 35 characters per line

Display Ads

  • Description: Static images or animated media that appear on YouTube next to video suggestions, in search results, or on the homepage.
  • Image Size: 300×60 pixels.
  • File Type: GIF, JPG, PNG.
  • File Size: Max 150KB.
  • Max Animation Length: 30 seconds.

Outstream Ads

  • Description: Mobile-only video ads that appear on websites and apps within the Google video partner network, not on YouTube itself.
  • Logo Specs:
    • Square: 1:1 (200 x 200px).
    • File Type: JPG, GIF, PNG.
    • Max Size: 200KB.

Masthead Ads

  • Description: High-visibility ads at the top of the YouTube homepage.
  • Resolution: 1920 x 1080 or higher.
  • File Type: JPG or PNG (without transparency).

Conclusion

YouTube offers a variety of ad formats to reach audiences effectively in 2024. Whether you want to build brand awareness, drive conversions, or target specific demographics, YouTube provides a dynamic platform for your advertising needs. Always follow Google’s advertising policies and the technical ad specs to ensure your ads perform their best. Ready to start using YouTube ads? Contact us today to get started!

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Why We Are Always 'Clicking to Buy', According to Psychologists

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A deeper dive into data, personalization and Copilots

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A deeper dive into data, personalization and Copilots

Salesforce launched a collection of new, generative AI-related products at Connections in Chicago this week. They included new Einstein Copilots for marketers and merchants and Einstein Personalization.

To better understand, not only the potential impact of the new products, but the evolving Salesforce architecture, we sat down with Bobby Jania, CMO, Marketing Cloud.

Dig deeper: Salesforce piles on the Einstein Copilots

Salesforce’s evolving architecture

It’s hard to deny that Salesforce likes coming up with new names for platforms and products (what happened to Customer 360?) and this can sometimes make the observer wonder if something is brand new, or old but with a brand new name. In particular, what exactly is Einstein 1 and how is it related to Salesforce Data Cloud?

“Data Cloud is built on the Einstein 1 platform,” Jania explained. “The Einstein 1 platform is our entire Salesforce platform and that includes products like Sales Cloud, Service Cloud — that it includes the original idea of Salesforce not just being in the cloud, but being multi-tenancy.”

Data Cloud — not an acquisition, of course — was built natively on that platform. It was the first product built on Hyperforce, Salesforce’s new cloud infrastructure architecture. “Since Data Cloud was on what we now call the Einstein 1 platform from Day One, it has always natively connected to, and been able to read anything in Sales Cloud, Service Cloud [and so on]. On top of that, we can now bring in, not only structured but unstructured data.”

That’s a significant progression from the position, several years ago, when Salesforce had stitched together a platform around various acquisitions (ExactTarget, for example) that didn’t necessarily talk to each other.

“At times, what we would do is have a kind of behind-the-scenes flow where data from one product could be moved into another product,” said Jania, “but in many of those cases the data would then be in both, whereas now the data is in Data Cloud. Tableau will run natively off Data Cloud; Commerce Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud — they’re all going to the same operational customer profile.” They’re not copying the data from Data Cloud, Jania confirmed.

Another thing to know is tit’s possible for Salesforce customers to import their own datasets into Data Cloud. “We wanted to create a federated data model,” said Jania. “If you’re using Snowflake, for example, we more or less virtually sit on your data lake. The value we add is that we will look at all your data and help you form these operational customer profiles.”

Let’s learn more about Einstein Copilot

“Copilot means that I have an assistant with me in the tool where I need to be working that contextually knows what I am trying to do and helps me at every step of the process,” Jania said.

For marketers, this might begin with a campaign brief developed with Copilot’s assistance, the identification of an audience based on the brief, and then the development of email or other content. “What’s really cool is the idea of Einstein Studio where our customers will create actions [for Copilot] that we hadn’t even thought about.”

Here’s a key insight (back to nomenclature). We reported on Copilot for markets, Copilot for merchants, Copilot for shoppers. It turns out, however, that there is just one Copilot, Einstein Copilot, and these are use cases. “There’s just one Copilot, we just add these for a little clarity; we’re going to talk about marketing use cases, about shoppers’ use cases. These are actions for the marketing use cases we built out of the box; you can build your own.”

It’s surely going to take a little time for marketers to learn to work easily with Copilot. “There’s always time for adoption,” Jania agreed. “What is directly connected with this is, this is my ninth Connections and this one has the most hands-on training that I’ve seen since 2014 — and a lot of that is getting people using Data Cloud, using these tools rather than just being given a demo.”

What’s new about Einstein Personalization

Salesforce Einstein has been around since 2016 and many of the use cases seem to have involved personalization in various forms. What’s new?

“Einstein Personalization is a real-time decision engine and it’s going to choose next-best-action, next-best-offer. What is new is that it’s a service now that runs natively on top of Data Cloud.” A lot of real-time decision engines need their own set of data that might actually be a subset of data. “Einstein Personalization is going to look holistically at a customer and recommend a next-best-action that could be natively surfaced in Service Cloud, Sales Cloud or Marketing Cloud.”

Finally, trust

One feature of the presentations at Connections was the reassurance that, although public LLMs like ChatGPT could be selected for application to customer data, none of that data would be retained by the LLMs. Is this just a matter of written agreements? No, not just that, said Jania.

“In the Einstein Trust Layer, all of the data, when it connects to an LLM, runs through our gateway. If there was a prompt that had personally identifiable information — a credit card number, an email address — at a mimum, all that is stripped out. The LLMs do not store the output; we store the output for auditing back in Salesforce. Any output that comes back through our gateway is logged in our system; it runs through a toxicity model; and only at the end do we put PII data back into the answer. There are real pieces beyond a handshake that this data is safe.”

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