Archive for March, 2008



Our Greatest Hits for March!

March 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 March. Whether you’re a new subscriber or a current subscriber you may have missed these insightful and helpful pay-per-click management tips. Enjoy!

  • The search query report in Google Adwords is a fairly new report that has several great uses. In this post Amber has pointed out two of those uses

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PPC News Roundup for March 28, 2008

March 28th, 2008 | | PPC News Round Up
  • Paid Search Lessons from David Szetela is a great post on some basic PPC strategies that can help anyone. David talks about separating the content network from sponsored search to using long tail keywords.
  • Searching for more click-throughs on your ppc ads? Talk to Shimon Sandler about developing a Unique Selling Proposition in PPC Ads. The ‘USP’ as he calls it helps your ads start apart from the rest to ultimately improve click-through rates.
  • Last week I

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Is Your Geo-Targeting Set Properly in MSN adCenter? Find Out!

March 28th, 2008 | | Geo Targeting, Microsoft adCenter

Sometimes there are small nuances of account set-up and management that need to be discussed. Today, I will focus on a small campaign setting in a small search engine (comparatively speaking to Google), but this tid bit of information can severely affect a campaign’s performance. Setting your geo-targeting within MSN adCenter isn’t difficult, but it can be tricky and here’s why.

When creating a new campaign within MSN adCenter you have to choose where to distribute your ads by language and …

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Use these 5 Tips to Increase Last Minute Traffic, Conversions & Sales!

March 27th, 2008 | | Basic PPC Strategies

It’s the end of the month, your budget is running low. You still need additional traffic and conversions to make March your best month yet. Use these five tips below to help boost your PPC campaigns for that last minute surge of traffic and conversions.

  • Keyword Level Bidding: If it’s the last week, or few days before the end of the month, and you’re running out of money to spend, find your best performing keyword and raise your
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    Who Else Wants to Increase Conversions From Their Landing Pages?

    March 25th, 2008 | | Landing Pages

    Here at PPC Hero, landing pages are one of those topics we rarely get tired of writing on. I attribute this to the fact that landing page strategy is always changing in the PPC industry – not to mention that practically every week I read another great landing page idea that blows my mind. I’d like to take some of what I’ve learned and pass it along to you. When I set out to research and …

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    Get More Business on Business.com: How to optimize your business.com campaign

    March 21st, 2008 | | 2nd & 3rd Tier Search Engines

    Google AdWords and Yahoo Search Marketing comprise approximately 82% of search traffic. Therefore, we focus approximately 82% of our articles toward these two search engines, logically. Today, I am going to take a diversion and discuss optimizing your advertisements for Business.com.

    Before you can enhance your listings, you have to know your core audience. As the name implies, Business.com is geared towards professionals looking for business solutions. …

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    Industry Benchmarking Beta Now in Google Analytics

    March 19th, 2008 | | Analytics, Tools

    Curious to know how your company is doing compared to your industry at large? Google Analytics now offers a “benchmarking” report. According to the Google FAQ, the new benchmarking feature is an optional Google Analytics service that shows how your site’s stats compare against other industry verticals. Once you opt in to ‘share’ your data you will be able to compare your site’s visits, pageviews, pages per visit, bounce rate, average time on site, and number of new

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    PPC News Roundup for March 19, 2008

    March 19th, 2008 | | PPC News Round Up
    • When it comes to successful paid search marketing, we can’t emphasize account structure enough. A well-planned, calculated account structure will allow you to manage your campaigns faster & easier as there will be less clutter, and when your account is structured properly this will aid your quality score as well. Joy Brazelle at Serengeti Communication has written a good, straight-to-the-point article about successful ad group structure, which is one part of a well-structured account.
    • With the parameters that have been

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    7 Things I Learned From Enquiro’s B2B Expert Series Webinar, “Coaxing the Conversion”

    March 17th, 2008 | | Webinars

    Last Friday I had the opportunity to participate in a webinar sponsored by Enquiro titled “Coaxing the Conversion.” This was the first in their new B2B Expert Series. Recently, I’ve been racking my brain on strategies for a particular B2B client of mine so the prospect of getting some research-based landing page suggestions had me quite excited. The webinar promised to present “what the latest research tells us about landing page content and layout.” Here are …

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    Hanapin Marketing is Looking for a Senior Project Manager – Web Development

    March 17th, 2008 | | Hanapin Marketing News

    Don’t be lured by the bright lights of the big city! Come work for an award-winning Internet Marketing and Web Development firm, right here in Bloomington. Hang out with people who know what Twitter is, stay on the cutting edge by working with some of the best companies in Indiana, and work for a company where your talents are appreciated.

    Hanapin Marketing is looking for a Senior Project Manager for our Web Development division. If you can answer yes to the …

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