Archive for January, 2008



Our Greatest Hits for January!

January 31st, 2008 | | Greatest Hits

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

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PPC News Roundup for January 30, 2008

January 30th, 2008 | | PPC News Round Up
  • Now you can get simple Google analytics help through WebmasterWorld forums! Search Engine Roundtable posts that an analytics advisor has volunteered to help people out with the Google analytics questions from time to time. Apparently he knows analytics inside and out, and also knows how to listen to users.
  • Andy Komack from KoMarketing Associates has a great post discussing 5 Keyword Strategies for B2B PPC Campaigns. Some include focusing only on highly targeted keywords and using a

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Generate More Qualified Leads Through Your Ad Text for B2B PPC Campaigns

January 30th, 2008 | | Ad Texts

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Andy Komack over at KoMarketing.com talks about Keyword Strategies for B2B PPC Campaigns. I’d like to append to his list 3 ad text strategies for B2B PPC campaigns. Andy focuses more on targeting qualified traffic and generating only good leads through long-tail PPC keywords. It’s incredibly important to have the correct keywords in your PPC campaign in order to generate qualified B2B leads. But what is just as …

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Learn the Basics of Testing Ad Copy: A PPC Primer

January 28th, 2008 | | Ad Texts, Basic PPC Strategies

One of the best features of pay-per-click advertising is the ability to test. There are numerous tools and options in AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing and adCenter that allow PPC advertisers to test nearly every piece of their account. But, admittedly, this barrage of bells and whistles could make the average-Joe-PPC-beginner go crazy – or worse yet, abandon PPC altogether! I would recommend to any advertiser interested in testing their PPC variables to begin with ad texts. As such, today’s PPC …

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How to Use Long Tail Keywords to Target Searchers When They’re Ready to Buy

January 25th, 2008 | | Buying Cycle

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This week we’ve been walking many miles in our customer’s searching shoes. We have learned how to write ads that answer your customer’s questions; how to anticipate when your customers will be searching for your services; how to discover new keywords using reports and analytics; and how to use general terms to generate brand awareness. We have one more mile to walk!

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How to Fit General Keywords into a Profitable Campaign

January 24th, 2008 | | Advanced PPC Strategies, Buying Cycle

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As mile 4 in our ‘Walk a Mile in a Searchers Shoes’ series we’ll focus on how to fit general keywords into a profitable campaign. General keywords can at times get a bad rap in the PPC world. They don’t convert as well as specific or long tail keywords, and they typically cost more since they drive large amounts

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PPC News Roundup for January 23, 2008

January 23rd, 2008 | | PPC News Round Up
  • Seeing higher minimum CPC’s lately? That might be because Google Adwords has re-evaluated their Quality Score on Keywords according to PPC Lab. Although it doesn’t explicitly say why, google frequently re-evaluates their keyword quality score algo and some underperforming keywords may suffer.
  • Interested in knowing how the 2007 holiday online shopping went? Read Search Engine’s Guide on top holiday shopping trends. Some of the trends that you could take advantage of in your ppc campaigns this year

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How to Use Analytics and Reports to Get to Know Your Customers Better

January 23rd, 2008 | | Advanced PPC Strategies, Analytics

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We’ve been walking in searchers’ shoes all week, and today is mile 3 of our journey to think and search like our customers! Search marketers have a wide array of tools at their disposal, many of which are powerful assets in understanding search behavior. More specifically, the PPC search engines all offer invaluable reporting features detailing ad and keyword performance, but it’s when you take that next step that …

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How to Predict When Your Traffic Will Drop and Ways to Prevent It

January 22nd, 2008 | | Advanced PPC Strategies

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As part 2 of our ‘Walk a Mile in a Searcher’s Shoes’ Series, today is mile 2! Now that the major holidays are over, I look back at what I could have done differently to maximize traffic and revenue for my clients through PPC. It’s actually very obvious, if I were to have just looked at the past year performance of my PPC account, I would have known …

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How to Write Ad Texts that Promise and Landing Pages that Deliver

January 21st, 2008 | | Ad Texts, Advanced PPC Strategies

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Every day this week, PPC Hero is going to walk a mile in a searcher’s shoes. Today is mile number one! Managing an effective search engine marketing campaign, and more specifically a PPC campaign, requires that you be a jack-of-many-trades. You have to know how to write concisely and effectively, being comfortable with statistical data is a must and you’ve got to know how to analyze …

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