• “You just launched your PPC campaign, now what?”, says Shimon Sandler. Shimon gives excellent ideas for a post launch PPC process. We use some of these ideas here at Hanapin Marketing and they truly enhance the quality of our PPC campaigns and customer satisfaction.
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On April 18th, the AdWords blog announced the inclusion of a new feature in the conversion tracking tool-set. This new feature gives advertisers the ability to customize conversion reporting with conversion types, otherwise known as Actions. Instead of tracking conversions as a cumulative total, advertisers can now track various actions independent of each other.
You can now define the actions that are most important to your business and track conversions on each of those actions independently.
Conversions can now …

Hat-tip to Stuart Brown for the “Google is a Giant Robot” Image

Back in February we announced Google’s intention to change their Display URL policy. Well, more accurately, their intention to strictly enforce policies they’ve had for some time! In the weeks that followed, Google made it’s own announcement and other sites put in their …

Whenever the PPC Hero team attends a webinar or an actual real-life seminar, listens to a podcast, or reads a case study/white paper, we like to share a summary of what we’ve learned, a critique on the information provided, and additional resources for further research. I recently read “Paid Search Best Practices: 10 Tips to SEM Success” …

Think you have the best search marketing strategy? PPC Summit is calling all Internet marketers to submit your proven technique or strategy that helped increase your conversions. Winner gets a FREE PASS to PPC Summit. Take note: the deadline is May 12th!

Just answer these two questions to enter:

Question #1: What Increased Your Search Marketing ROI Last Year?
Question #2: What one thing could you point to and say “THAT made the …

I just got an update from my Google rep about the addition of account performance graphs that are going to be added in the next few weeks in the ‘my change history tool’. These new additions will show you how changes you make to your account effect your account performance. “These graphs will give you greater visibility into event causality and arm you with insight into how the changes you make impact your account’s performance,” says Google.

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