Monthly Archives: December 2010

PPC News Roundup for December 31, 2010

Do you regularly use analytics to make decisions about account performance? If not you might want to become familiar as the analytics industry is growing and maturing. Garry Przyklenk of Search Engine Watch has written a post taking a look …

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PPC: A Review of 2010 & Our Expectations for 2011

As we near the end of the year, our team reflected on the changes seen in PPC, and put together the following recap of those with the biggest impact so far: Twitter Twitter has begun to reach out to companies …

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PPC News Roundup for December 24, 2010

Incase you don’t already spend enough time on Facebook, the company is moving into having retail stores inside their Fan/Like Pages. If this move toward “social commerce” is successful it could turn Facebook’s hundreds of millions of users into online …

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Case Study: Improving Low Quality Score Accounts

Do you remember playing the game Telephone as a child? One person whispers a sentence into the ear of the person next to them, who whispers it to the person next to them and so on down the line, while …

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Account Level Quality Score: What about it?

I recently had a situation arise that made me take a look at quality score beyond the keyword level. I needed to understand what changes at different levels could actually do to affect the performance of my account as a …

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AdWords Ad Extensions: An Overview

If you’re not leveraging Google’s expanded ad formats, you may be missing out on valuable traffic and conversions. Especially for local businesses, businesses with several different products or services with their own landing pages, and e-commerce businesses, these extensions can add significant relevance (and likely value) to the relationship between a searcher and your ads.

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PPC News Roundup for December 17, 2010

According to Geordie from PPC Blog, last weekend several major Internet sites were hacked and had their internal documents shared to the world. HR documents, company email directories and Gmail accounts were all compromised.  This happened to such Internet presences …

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PPC Hero Video Blog #1: Optimizing your Landing Page

PPC Hero is proud to present our first video blog on Landing Page Optimization! Make sure to eep an eye out for a new PPC Hero video blog in the middle of each month.

A good landing page can raise leads, ROI, and quality score, but a bad one can sink a PPC campaign. Watch this short tutorial to learn how to create an effective landing page and incorporate it into your PPC account structure, based on industry-proven best practices. It’s easier than you think!

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PPC Last-Minute Holiday Promotions: Ad Text and Landing Page Best Practices

Last week, Jen discussed how to utilize Google’s Merchant Center to make your ecommerce PPC campaigns stand out this holiday season. Now that you have your product extensions and product listing ads set up, what else can you do in the closing days of the holiday season to really make your products and company stand out. With a few last-minute creative promotions in addition to some highly enticing ad copy and landing pages, there is still significant potential for this holiday season.

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PPC News Roundup for December 10, 2010

I don’t think the people at Google ever sleep because this week Adwords Insider announced the launch of two new online services: Google Global Market Finder and Google Ads for Global Advertisers. Global Marketing Finder is a free online tool …

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