Google Ads

  • Digital Ads for Medical Practices

    Digital Ads for Medical Practices

    Marketing for medical practices can be complex. It can also be different from traditional advertising. Digital ads for medical practices rarely center on low prices and seasonal sales. You can’t expect to create demand for knee replacement surgery with an exciting ad campaign. But digital ads, like Google Ads, are actually perfect for doctors and…

  • Is It a Sign — or Behavioral Targeting?

    Is It a Sign — or Behavioral Targeting?

    One of my students told me a story about his wife. She was thinking about going to cosmetology school, and had been researching online. He got a call from her the next day, because she had been on Facebook and an ad for cosmetology school had popped up. “It’s a sign!” she said. Actually, it…

  • Keywords: It’s Complicated

    Keywords: It’s Complicated

    Once upon a time, the relationship between search engines and keywords was simple. People would type a word into the search box and the search engine would simply show all the pages with that word, probably in chronological order. You can still see this type of simple search engine on most internal site searches. Then…

  • Setting Your Google Ads Budget

    Setting Your Google Ads Budget

    One of the great advantages for Google Ads is that you can set your own budget and pay only for actual interactions with prospective customers. With traditional print or broadcast advertising, you will pay the asking price or you may be able to negotiate a price but you cannot set your own price. You pay…

  • CPC Quality Scores

    CPC Quality Scores

    Tami Dowers, who was the paid search person at a company where I served as the organic search person, once told me that Google Ads is like an auction where whether you get the chair depends not only on what you’re willing to pay but also on how the chair will look in your living…

  • My Google Ads Aren’t Working!

    My Google Ads Aren’t Working!

    You’ve taken the plunge with Google Ads and set up a campaign. But your ads aren’t getting clicks, or they’re getting clicks and they’re not leading to sales. What’s going on? Is it just that your Google ads aren’t working? It could be your ads The image at the top of this post is a…