Archive for July, 2007



Don’t Let Your Google AdWords Ads Get Turned Off…

July 31st, 2007 | | Basic PPC Strategies

There are two different ways one can pay for clicks in AdWords when setting up an account. One is to pre-pay and the other is to post-pay. But which is better? Here are their definitions:

  • Post-pay allows you to pay only after you accrue costs for advertising activity. If you pay by credit or debit card, your ads run almost immediately after you submit valid

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AdWords Quality Score Survey Results Are In

July 30th, 2007 | | Surveys

Our first survey was a success! First, we’d like to thank all 43 respondents for their participation. Below are the results of the survey. Tomorrow I will post an analysis of the survey results; and on Thursday I will post the extended comments we received.

The attributes featured in the survey were culled mainly from two sources: Bill Slawski’s discovery of US patents filed by Google that discuss the AdWords ranking model; and Google’s official

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Interview with Kevin Gibbons, SEOptimize

July 27th, 2007 | | Interviews

Kevin Gibbons is currently the Director of Search at SEOptimize, who provides search engine optimization and pay-per-click management services to a wide range of clients mainly based within the UK. Kevin has become a very well known and expert blogger in the SEO and PPC industry. To learn more about Kevin click here.

Kevin was kind enough to answer a few of our questions regarding PPC management. Here’s what he had to say:

1) Which search

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PPC News Roundup for July 25, 2007

July 25th, 2007 | | PPC News Round Up
  • Microsoft takes another step in challenging Google with their new ‘Gatineau Analytics’ Package. There’s not too much of a difference between the two analytics packages except that MSN will provide demographics data like the gender and age of people who are visiting your site. Gatineau will launch in beta later this summer.
  • Much debate exists about the sophistication for landing pages in search marketing. In search engine land a post has been put up regarding business to business search

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Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Click Fraud

July 25th, 2007 | | Advanced PPC Strategies

What is the difference between click fraud or invalid clicks? After reading this expose’, it is my hope that you will walk away (browse away?) with a better understanding of both and what Google and Yahoo! are doing to protect you from these possible threats.

First, let’s define click fraud according to Wikipedia:
Click fraud is a type of internet crime that occurs in pay per click online advertising when a person, automated script, or computer program imitates a legitimate user …

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Give Us Your Two Cents on the Google AdWords Quality Score

July 23rd, 2007 | | Quality Score

This is a quick Thank You to everyone who has filled out our Google AdWords Quality Score Survey – and this is a gentle reminder to those of you haven’t done so yet! The survey is looking to determine how much weight each aspect of the quality score carries – in the opinion of PPC managers. Please fill it out now! We’ll posting the results and a summary tomorrow!
CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE SURVEY!

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Blog Tipping: The Next Big Thing

July 20th, 2007 | | PPC Hero News

All of us here at PPC Hero are consistently looking for ways to improve ourselves. This need for betterment comes in a myriad of flavors: writing, PPC management, blog management and all of the behind the scenes SEO work, too.

As such, this quick post is a request for help from none other than Mr. Blog Tipping himself, Douglas Karr. His blog is a good read if you don’t know it, and his offer to …

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PPC News Roundup for July 19, 2007

July 19th, 2007 | | PPC News Round Up
  • An article on adwords unexpected match types talks about how your ads could be coming up for completely irrelevant search terms. The cause of this is Google Adwords broad match, which is now being called by some, Google expanded broad match. They’re basically stating that Googles search is too broad, even broader than we originally though. This article helps remind me that I need to add more negative keywords into my campaigns if I see that my ads are

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Google AdWords Quality Score Survey

July 18th, 2007 | | Quality Score, Surveys

After doing some sleuthing into Google’s AdWords quality score, we’d like to ask for your opinion on the matter!
We created a list of the 12 most influential attributes of Google’s quality score and this survey asks for your opinion on how much weight each of these attributes carries in the overall quality score formula.

Inspired by a similar survey for organic ranking attributes conducted by SEOmoz, we will post the …

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