Management icon Peter Drucker believed that if you canโ€™t measure something then you canโ€™t manage it and what gets measured gets improved. These maxims still hold true today and are especially relevant to paid searchย marketing campaigns. Companies of all sizes use Google advertising to get in front of potential customers searching for products and services. […]

For some time now, Blueprint has been a part of the Google Partner network. As a Google-certified agency, the team of specialists at Blueprint help clients make the most of their online advertising efforts while building the foundation for their web presence.

Recently Blueprint was recognized for meeting the requirements of a top performing partner agency and awarded the distinction of Premier Google Partner.

According to Googleโ€™sย official AdWords blog, โ€œThe new badge is designed to recognize Partners who manage a substantial portfolio of Google advertising campaigns and deliver great results for their customers. Premier Partners will be required to maintain additional certification requirements and will receive increased support from Google.โ€

Many factors should influence which keywords, or keyphrases, you focus on when building your PPC campaign including: search volume, competition, importance of a keyword to a clientโ€™s success, where a keyword falls within the conversion funnel, AdWordsโ€™ suggested bid, and more. It can be quite a challenge sorting through hundreds or thousands of keywords to […]

Okay, so maybe itโ€™s not a secret, per se… But earning (and maintaining) a high quality score is the key element in keeping CPCs low; and it can be significantly more difficult than you may think. While Google uses several metrics to calculate each keywordโ€™s quality score, in this article Iโ€™llย discuss the one thing that […]

Letโ€™s face it, when it comes to marketing of any kind, the questions on any business ownerโ€™s mind are โ€œAm I getting the return on my investment?โ€ and more importantly โ€œAre you getting my phone to ring?โ€. The Problem with Tracking Phone Calls Tracking the true result of phone calls generated from any advertising source […]