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September 5, 2018August 30, 2018

Bing Ads a Great Place for Medical Professionals

Nancy C. McCord, Owner of McCord Web Services LLC

Many businesses only consider advertising on Google AdWords, but for many businesses, Bing Ads should be considered a viable adjunct to AdWords.

For many of my clients (but not all), Bing Ads brings in lower cost conversions than AdWords. For medical professionals, I’ve had good success in most markets in generating conversions at a lower cost (sometimes as much as 50% less) than in Google AdWords.

There are differences between Google AdWords and Bing Ads and many similarities as well.

Here are just a few of the differences:

Bing Ads is best used for US and Canada advertising and not for global coverage. AdWords is great for global advertising.

Bing Ads uses the user’s browser setting to determine language – Google uses the Google.com language setting.

Bing Ads is still using a 30% bid cap when you use eCPC bid settings. Google did away with theirs this last year and so it can sometimes be expensive to let Google adjust your bid to be competitive.

Bing Ads has made it very, very easy to import AdWords programs into Bing Ads. Google has done nothing to make this easy. There are times when a program is performing better in Bing Ads and the only way to get it into AdWords is an Excel import with further tweaking after the load.

In Bing Ads the enhanced site links will only show for keywords that have won the auction and have a high quality score and are to appear in the top ad position on the page.

Bing Ads now has a “get a ride” feature next to directions in the location settings that interface directly with your personal Uber account. The get a ride extension setting is automatic.

Not every business will do well on Bing Ads, but for those that have, the results are excellent. Bing Ads may well be worth another look.

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.

June 20, 2018June 3, 2018

It’s Easy To Use Bing Ads Structured Snippets

There’s something new you may have missed in Bing Ads in the extension tab – Structured Snippets.

They are easy to set up and Bing Ads likes to display them under your ad like Callouts. There is no link with the text, but the Snippets give you a chance to quickly let your clients know what else you do or offer.

Here’s how to set them up:

Go to the “Extension” tab.
2. In the drop down select “Structured Snippets”
3. Select your category – I typically use Types.
4. Add up to 20 Snippets.
5. Make sure to click save.

I usually set these up at the campaign level, but you can set them up at the ad group level too.

If you are looking for a savvy Bing Ads account manager, make sure to check out our services and pricing.

June 11, 2018June 3, 2018

Bing Ads – A Great Place for Many Businesses

I am recertifying for my Bing Ads Certification this month to retain my Bing Partner status. Many businesses only consider advertising on Google AdWords, but for many businesses, Bing Ads should be considered a viable adjunct to AdWords.