Category Archives: PPC

Google Organic UK Shopping Results Being Removed

As most of you know google is slowly switching over it’s shopping results from a free model to a Pay Per Click Model. Here in the UK Google has said the following:

Google Shopping will be transitioning to a new experience in the UK beginning 13 February 2013.

Over the past weeks google shopping results have been showing less and less in the organic results and more and more shopping ads are showing.

This graph below shows the real results for a site with referrals from just the organic shopping channel, which you can clearly see the drop in visits hence drop in exposure of the organic shopping listing on the search results pages:

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With organic search flat lining site owners really need to consider the use of the Pay Per Click model now being used.

Here is the impressions chart (the number of times an ad is shown) for the Pay Per Click shopping  ads in the UK over the same time period:

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It’s pretty clear to see if you are not running the PPC Uk Google Shopping you’ll be messing out on what you once had. Feel free to contact us regarding google shopping and advertising on google.

 

 

Less reach, more clicks with facebook ads

We have all seen the massive change to our facebook timelines especially on mobile.. ads ads and more ads.. The ads are now everywhere..

This has offended many users including many of my friends.

 

 

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The graph is the reach of a facebook campaign I’ve run for many years. This campaign runs on the PPC (pay per click) model. You can clearly see the massive drop in reach from the 2nd week of January 2013.

Nothing in this campaign has changed, no targeting changes and no budget changes..

facebookadsCTRlastyear
This next table show last years CTR (click through rate) at 0.094%

This is the current CTR:

facebookadsCTRthisyear

 

So with CTR more than double will result in a reduction of the same in reach. It maybe time to start testing the impressions model.

If you require more information on facebook advertising why not contact us.