Archive for November, 2007



Our Greatest Hits for November!

November 30th, 2007 | | Greatest Hits

The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero’s four most visited, and hopefully most valuable, blog posts from November. Whether you’re a new subscriber or a current subscriber you may have missed these insightful and helpful tips involving the world of pay-per-click. Enjoy!

  • A problem many professional SEMs run into is inheriting PPC accounts from clients who most likely didn’t know what they were doing. This creates a unique set of problems for account management.

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PPC News Roundup for November 30, 2007

November 30th, 2007 | | PPC News Round Up
  • The holidays are the time to give PPC advertising everything you’ve got, even if it means devoting more time to MSN adCenter! PPC Discussions explains why even if you normally ignore or under-utilize adCenter, the holidays are prime time to go full force. The conversion rates and click traffic increase during the Christmas season, and you should take advantage accordingly.
  • The Rimm-Kaufman blog offers an excellent paid search primer full of great advice. With tips ranging

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Use These 5 Holiday Tips To Help Increase Your PPC Revenue

November 28th, 2007 | | Advanced PPC Strategies

‘Tis the season for masses of people shopping online to buy those one-of-a-kind gifts for friends and family. In this post I will outline a few online shopping trends, and five tips that can help you maximize your revenue during this Christmas season.

  • Timing is Key: According to the Atlas Institute’s 7th annual Holiday Online Shopping Report, timing is pertinent to the success of your marketing campaigns. Three things to remember:

  • The peak online shopping day tends to be
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    Don’t Have the ‘Set It & Forget It’ Attitude: Interview with Dave Davis from RedFly Marketing

    November 27th, 2007 | | Interviews

    Dave Davis is the Managing Director of RedFly Marketing, a search engine marketing firm based out of Dublin, Ireland. Dave oversees search engine marketing, search engine optimization and pay per click management. According to Dave’s Bio, he attended DIT with a Computer Science Degree where he learned almost all the facts of life. He apparently loves to travel and also thinks he can dance. Dave is a premiere blogger in the blogosphere.

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    Get Your Masters of Business Online – Registration Ends Wednesday

    November 26th, 2007 | | Hanapin Marketing News

    On Friday, December 7th, the Masters of Business Online Conference will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana. This exclusive event has been organized to educate marketers on how best to do business online. Through the course of this one-day event, attendees will be educated on interactive marketing, search engine marketing (SEM), website usability, email marketing and best of all: how to effectively put it all together.
    The program is designed to educate, entertain, and inform. Your “instructors” are some …

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    The 6 Next Steps After Your AdWords Content Optimization

    November 23rd, 2007 | | Advanced PPC Strategies, Google AdWords

    Once you’ve launched your Google AdWords content optimization resulting in greater impressions, clicks and conversions, what is the next step to expand your account? Good question! Now you need to take what is working and make it work better and more often! Here are 6 steps you can take after you’ve settled into your content-optimized account.

  • Run a placement performance report. This report will allow you to see which sites are performing well within your account, and
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    PPC News Roundup for November 21, 2007

    November 21st, 2007 | | PPC News Round Up
    • With the holidays upon us, it’s time to start talking statistics. Marketing Pilgrim shares 8 statistics for internet retailers this holiday shopping season. For example, 61% of online shoppers prefer free shipping and 68% of internet users shop or research products online. This is a good list to get us all ready for Cyber Monday!
    • The long tail is overrated (everything’s overrated this week). At least that’s what The PPC Book is telling us.

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    5 Things to Consider When Running a Google AdWords Pay Per Action Campaign

    November 21st, 2007 | | Advanced PPC Strategies, Google AdWords

    Officially announced in March, Google’s Pay-Per-Action (PPA) BETA test has now been running for 8 months. In that time, advertisers and publishers alike have grown accustomed to the new system and are developing a sense for what works and what doesn’t. The only problem is that no one’s talking about it! There was considerable buzz upon launch, but the blogosphere has since mostly kept quiet.

    Because of this lack of data, discussion and general “group think” brainstorming,

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    Stop Complaining, Start Educating!

    November 20th, 2007 | | Basic PPC Strategies

    It’s natural to be afraid of something you don’t understand. Fear can create distrust, and this can lead to griping and blaming the “problem” and not focusing on the solution. I see this when I read Graywolf’s article “Google Adwords More Pricing BS.” He is blaming AdWords and claims they’re ripping us off for requesting a higher minimum bid due to poor quality score, rather than finding a solution to his quality score problem and educating people on how

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    Happy Thanksgiving From PPC Hero!

    November 19th, 2007 | | PPC Hero News

    PPC Hero would like to wish all of our wonderful readers a very Happy Thanksgiving!

    As you can see, PPC Hero couldn’t wait until Thursday! Turkey is one of his favorite foods, aside from Lifesavers, Ho Hos, beets and kung pao chicken!

    PPC Hero Thanksgiving!

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