Archive for December, 2007



Our Greatest Hits for December!

December 30th, 2007 | | Greatest Hits

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

  • Looking for a one-time campaign tune up? Yahoo!’s new campaign tune up tool gives advertisers a one-time analysis of a non-optimized campaign. The campaign tune-up takes about fifteen minutes to complete and once

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Getting Certified in Google Adwords, Yahoo! and MSN AdCenter

December 27th, 2007 | | Exams, Google AdWords, Microsoft adCenter, Yahoo! Search Marketing

The team here at Hanapin Marketing has recently become a certified company in Google Adwords, Yahoo! and MSN AdCenter. In this post I’ve listed the top three search engines and how to become a certified individual or company. I’ve included information such as benefits, costs, how to access the learning materials, tips on taking the exam and requirements to becoming certified.

Why should you or your company become certified? Credibility of course! Being a certified member of the …

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7 Ways to Be Sure You’re Writing the Best Ads Possible

December 21st, 2007 | | Ad Texts

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Over the past week we’ve discussed five ways to write better ad texts to increase traffic to your site and target the right customers. You may notice that writing the best ad text possible can be quite overwhelming! To make it easier for you, we’ve devised a guide or checklist to writing the best ad text.

When beginning to write from scratch or re-write your existing ad text, go through

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You Will Never Write the Perfect Ad Text, but Here Are 2 Ways To Keep Getting Closer

December 21st, 2007 | | Ad Texts

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This week we have been exploring how to catch more clicks and conversions by writing better ad texts. Our tackle box has been filled the tools to help (just to name a few):

But let’s be honest; even …

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How to Use Dynamic Keyword Insertion to Hook Customers

December 20th, 2007 | | Ad Texts

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So far this week, we have discussed the best practices for writing great PPC ad texts. The ideas presented have thus far focused on writing techniques, not necessarily search engine provided tools. However, today I’d like to discuss one of the most powerful tools provided to advertisers: Dynamic Keyword Insertion (DKI). DKI is a way to write your ad so that a user’s actual search query keyword will be

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PPC News Roundup for December 19, 2007

December 19th, 2007 | | PPC News Round Up
  • Previously in MSN’s adCenter, you had to control your spending through a monthly budget. With a recent set of updates, it is now possible to set both a daily and maximum monthly budget. Thank you MSN!
  • The PPC Blog provided this list of 13 Pay Per Click Myths. This list does a great job of breaking down some of the most common misperceptions, such as: the need to rank #1, the Content Network and Broad

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Catch the BEST Leads, Not the MOST Leads by Using Qualifiers in Your Ad Text

December 19th, 2007 | | Ad Texts, Landing Pages

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In our 6 day series, Catch More Clicks and Conversions with Better Ad Text: Use the Right Lures! We’ll talk about everything there is to know about writing great ad text. ‘Catch the Best Leads, Not the Most leads is part 4 of our series. Lead generation is one of the tougher challenges among …

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Increase Your Click-Through Rate with Tasty Promo Offers and Calls-to-Action

December 18th, 2007 | | Ad Texts

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Every day this week we are writing about how to improve your PPC account’s ad texts! Yesterday we discussed writing benefit driven ads to lure customers to your site. So today, I’m going to take your ad writing skills to the next level by explaining how and why you should include promotional offers and calls-to-action in your ad texts.

There are millions of people using search engines everyday …

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The Benefits of Using Benefit-Driven Ad Texts: What’s in Your Tackle Box?

December 17th, 2007 | | Ad Texts

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Let us not forget the fundamental root of search engine marketing: search. The term ‘search’ also comprises these terms: query, hunt, seek, look for, ferret, chase, rummage. Users rummage through search query results looking for a service, a product, a piece-of-information, an answer. Search engine results pages (SERP) are filled with possible answers to a users’ query, but the key to a successful search engine marketing campaign is being the …

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Catch More Clicks and Conversions with Better Ad Text: Use the Right Lures!

December 16th, 2007 | | Ad Texts, Landing Pages

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Our quest to make better PPC accounts for everyone continues! In our previous series we have expanded your view on the AdWords Quality Score, and we have revitalized and re-invigorated your PPC campaign in 5 days. This time around we will help you catch more clicks and conversions with better ad texts by using the right …

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