Monthly Archives: April 2009

Driving Campaign Success With Advanced Ad Scheduling

With a strong, mature e-commerce campaign, you may find yourself running short of ideas on how to truly drive increased sales. Perhaps you are working through  some (good) new ad creative techniques, or perhaps you have expanded your keyword list …

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I Personally Feel Yahoo! Is Giving Advertisers Bad Advice

In the latest Yahoo! Search Marketing blog, Kastle Waserman, the Communications Manager in Advertiser Solutions, I feel is giving advertisers some not so great advice when it comes to managing your PPC campaigns. The blog is titled, “You’re Doing it …

Posted in Yahoo! Search Marketing | 13 Comments

Highlights From Google’s Content Network CPA Whitepaper

Early last week, Google released a whitepaper titled, “CPA Performance Trends on the Google Content Network”.  This whitepaper was based on data pulled from nearly 25,000 AdWords accounts around the world from a 12 month period ending November 2008.  That’s …

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Why Fix What Isn’t Broken on the Google Content Network?

The Google AdWords Content Network is vast and wide-reaching. If you harness this distribution channel properly, it can be a great source for traffic, leads and revenue. Recently, I discussed how to enhance your content network performance by removing poorly …

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PPC News Round Up for April 24, 2009

How long does it take you to design a landing pages? According to Justin to Post-Click Marketing Blog, if you spend more than 7 hours designing a landing page, you’re invested too much time. Once you’ve put that much time …

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Simple PPC Ad Tests Can Drive Up Your Click-Throughs and Conversions

In many cases you may be running a strong, mature PPC campaign, exceeding your goals and driving strong results. The causes of this – strong keyword lists, effective ad creative, efficient bidding strategy, and a website that delivers on the …

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Yes Friends, Google AdWords’ Search Partners Includes Parked Domains

I’ve been managing PPC campaigns for what seems like a really long time.  I work in Google AdWords every day.  But you know what?  I still learn something new every day.  Sometimes this fact is scary.  So, there is this …

Posted in Advanced PPC Strategies, Reporting / Conversion Tracking | 15 Comments

New Filters and Global Settings in Google Search Based Keyword Tool

Google announced yesterday an update to the search based keyword tool within AdWords. 1. New Filters Now you can add filters to customize which keywords Google gives you search volume estimates on.  Some of the filters allow you to set …

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AdWords Budget Optimizer is a Great Way to Spend Money… And That’s It

Recently, we received a question from a reader in regards to Google AdWords’ Budget Optimizer. We have not discussed this option here on the blog so I thought I’d give a description of this tool while answering our reader’s question. …

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Five Essential Tricks, Tools and Tips for the Multimarket Account Manager

This is a special guest blog post from Kerstin Baker-Ash. Kerstin has worked in search engine marketing for six years across agency and in-house roles. A native of Toronto, Canada, she has experienced the inevitable pants versus trousers embarrassment since …

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