How to Determine Your Optimal PPC Budget
Many PPC budgets are determined by a company’s overall marketing dollars, but what should you actually spend each month? It can be difficult to determine exactly how much you should budget for with a PPC program, as there are various factors to consider. At Synapse, we have...
What to Keep in Mind When Launching a Branded PPC Campaign
One of the most commonly asked questions when presenting a PPC proposal to a new a client is “why should we waste money bidding on our own branded keywords?” What is the purpose of bidding on brand when you are already showing at the top of organic listings? Brand can be a...
How to Perform a Proper PPC Competitor Analysis
You’ll often hear that a little healthy competition is a good thing for your business. It certainly doesn’t feel that way when you look at your Google Ads campaign and see your CPCs have almost tripled in the past week and you have no idea why. You might be scratching your...
What is Structured Data (and Schema Markup) and What Can it Mean for SEO?
Google, Bing, and other major search engines have been encouraging webmasters to use structured data for years now. Still, only 17 percent of marketers are using structured data markup on their websites today. With incentives like enriched organic search results, it’s a...
Synapse Announces New Office Space in Newton, MA
Newton, MA – August 7, 2019 – Synapse SEM, a specialized performance marketing agency, announced today they have relocated their Massachusetts office to Washington Street in Newton. This move is part of a 2019 initiative to build more collaboration and foster a greater sense...
Synapse SEM Announces Partnership with Revenue Architects
Boston, MA – May 28, 2019 – Synapse SEM, a specialized performance marketing firm, announced today a new partnership with Revenue Architects a marketing and sales integration company. This partnership will allow Synapse to provide its clients with best-in-class design and...
How to Build a Better PPC Spend Tracker
Whether you are on the agency or client side, two of the most important aspects of PPC management are budget management and identifying significant performance fluctuations in real-time (e.g. spend doubled from the prior day unexpectedly). Unfortunately, there aren’t many...
How to use Google In-Market Audiences for Search
While the concept of RLSA campaigns (Remarketing Lists for Search Audiences), Customer Match, and Similar Audiences have been key SEM strategies for some time now, Google has recently introduced the ability to use existing in-market audiences for search. These audiences were...
3 Advanced SEM Targeting Strategies
Strategic targeting in a campaign can have many impactful benefits: increased site traffic, increased conversion rates, improved efficiency and higher return on investment. Monitoring bidding and conversion volume can only go so far to improve efficiency. Below we will...
Putting Mobile-First: A Guide to Google’s Mobile-First Indexing in 2019
Today, consumers are putting mobile first. Increasingly (and habitually), more of us are turning to our smartphones during moments of need – to ask a question, find a solution, reach a local business, and even to book travel or search for a new home. According to Google, 96...
