by Petra Manos | Agency & Case Studies
1,173 total views, 12 views today TFS 380: The Power of Focus From Ideation to Creation with Alex Sanfilippo September 15th In this episode of The Freelancers Show, Alex Sanfilippo, Joel and Petra discuss how to focus ideas and actions in order...
by Petra Manos | Agency & Case Studies, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Data Studio, Google Tag Manager, Putting it All Together
183 total views, 6 views today Hi guys, Petra Manos here with a quick story for you. I wanted to share with you this story so you can understand the reason I created these checklists [see offer below] and why I am sharing them with you. When I...
by Petra Manos | Agency & Case Studies, Google Ads, Putting it All Together
174 total views, 3 views today Here’s a profitable idea for anyone that sells sized items like shoes or clothing. I mentioned this remarketing strategy in my book, Ecommerce Google Analytics and it doesn’t fail to disappoint! I used...
by Petra Manos | Agency & Case Studies, ECommerce, Google Ads
303 total views, 3 views today A client of mine sells handbags. When I first started working on the account their Return On Ad Spend (ROAS) was so low that they were making a loss from their advertising. Literally they were making $.50 from every...
by Petra Manos | Agency & Case Studies, Popular
258 total views, 9 views today A bit over a year ago a bloke named Kevin Quinn reached out to me. Kevin had been selling information products online for a few years and felt that his learning curve had been so steep. After all, he’d had to...
by Petra Manos | Google Ads
366 total views, 6 views today My three year old daughter (Charlotte) is very good at connecting with people. She‘s been a master at rapport and empathy since she was a baby. One thing she has learned to do is soften the blow every time she gives...
by Petra Manos | Agency & Case Studies, Google Ads
411 total views, 6 views today I was working as a software developer when I decided to quit my job to start a business. I had been creating heat maps to identify threats in cybersecurity data and so I hung up my shingle as an analytics expert,...
by Petra Manos | ECommerce, Google Ads, Google Tag Manager, Putting it All Together
393 total views, 15 views today Several of my e-commerce clients have problems with WordPress WooCommerce websites not tracking all of their sales correctly in Google Analytics. This often happens on a WordPress website because there is more than...
by Petra Manos | Google Ads
420 total views, 3 views today There’s a common misconception that Display (banner) ads are just for “awareness” or “branding”, not for conversions. Nothing could be further than the truth. Of course it depends how...
by Petra Manos | ECommerce, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Putting it All Together
459 total views, 3 views today The missing bagel… We have a local bagel maker. He makes these amazing rainbow bagels. Last week my daughter got out a bagel and left it out for her breakfast. Later that morning I heard “Mum! I’ve...
by Petra Manos | Agency & Case Studies, Google Ads, Popular, Putting it All Together
2,013 total views, 6 views today The problem with “traditional” ways of getting traffic to a blog… I’ve been blogging for more than three years now, and if you have ever run a blog you would know the frustrations of...
by Petra Manos | Agency & Case Studies
912 total views, 9 views today I’ve become a regular panelist on a podcast called The Freelancer Show. Its been running for several hundred episodes now and helps small business owners to navigate the waters of freelancing. In this...
by Petra Manos | Google Tag Manager, Popular, Putting it All Together
2,817 total views, 24 views today Today I setup conversion tracking for a website that was designed around a more-complex-than-usual intake form. This form required the user to select from check boxes at each step (5 steps total). The final...
by Petra Manos | Google Analytics
873 total views, 3 views today I was working with a client today who was a bit perplexed. Our Google Data Studio report providing the results of our Google Tag Manager tracking for an insurance comparison form was showing 27% more users than...
by Petra Manos | Agency & Case Studies, Google Ads
858 total views, 9 views today No matter how hard you try, you are occasionally going to have some of your ads disapproved by Google. If its never happened, you must not be creating enough ads! Here’s a disapproval I got for one of my own...
by Petra Manos | Agency & Case Studies, Google Ads
807 total views, 6 views today It’s not that I didn’t like Responsive Display Ads (in fact, I use them a lot). It’s just that I thought that given the choice, it would be better to have professionally designed banner ads created...
by Petra Manos | Google Ads, Google Tag Manager, Video
633 total views Hey there! Today I’m going to show you how to get some conversion tracking into Google Ads, by passing it over from Google Tag Manager. Here’s a super-quick video on the topic. Some of the things I said might need a little more...
by Petra Manos | Google Ads, Video
1,416 total views, 9 views today Here’s a quick tip with regards to tracking conversions in Google ads so that you can attribute actual revenue to your ads. You’ll definitely want to make sure that your ads are earning you money, and...
by Petra Manos | ECommerce, Google Ads, Video
1,059 total views A quick one for Google Shopping users! Make sure that when you do list your products on Google shopping that you test how the products look when people search for your products. You can do a search in Google and you can bring yourself up...
by Petra Manos | Google Ads, Tips
1,287 total views, 3 views today Before I answer that question, let’s quickly de-jargon and explain what an affinity audience is!An affinity audience broadly groups people based on general interests. It somewhat matches media buying audiences for...
by Petra Manos | Google Ads, Tips
837 total views, 3 views today Affinity audiences are used to target people based on topics that they are interested in, but without going to the same level of detail as an in-market audience (which is focused more on what people are researching...
by Petra Manos | Google Ads, Tips
1,575 total views This completely depends on your objective, but personally I believe yes. Display is excellent if you want to target people who don’t know you yet, or who are not yet searching for your product or solution. Because of Google’s ability to...
by Petra Manos | Google Ads, Tips
897 total views, 3 views today Remarketing is when you target people who have interacted with your business in the past. They might have been to your website, your social media pages, or any other online place where they interacted with you and...
by Petra Manos | Google Ads, Tips
1,188 total views, 6 views today Yes, B2B businesses get plenty of value from Google Ads, however the strategy used needs to be different. Personally I specialise in using Google to generate revenue for transactional websites and so my own...
by Petra Manos | Google Ads, Tips
1,182 total views, 3 views today Yes, you can definitely target Google Ads by location. This is one of the most important features you can take advantage of when advertising using Google Ads, and is a strong benefit to using Google Ads compared...
by Petra Manos | Google Ads, Tips
1,170 total views, 3 views today Yes, you can target women or men exclusively. Google’s targeting won’t be perfect in this respect. It attaches its cookie to your browser and will attempt to work out if you’re a man or a woman based on whether...
by Petra Manos | Google Ads, Tips
1,179 total views, 6 views today This depends on which Google Network you want to run remarketing ads. Display is the most lenient. For Google Display Network your remarketing audience must include a minimum of 100 cookies (basically users, but...
by Petra Manos | Google Ads, Tips
1,140 total views, 3 views today Google lets you choose audiences based on their intent, their interests and their past interactions with your business. The way that this all happens behind the scenes is fascinating, especially when you...
by Petra Manos | Google Ads, Tips
1,425 total views, 3 views today There are a myriad of different ways to target people in Google Ads, and I recommend being smart about it so that you get the best results for your budget. “Being smart” could mean targeting very tightly, or...
by Petra Manos | Google Ads, Tips
1,095 total views, 3 views today I love this question because I get super excited about targeting. Great targeting really boosts the results of your digital marketing efforts, and it’s something I spend a lot of time thinking about and...
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