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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Ticker Tuesday: Setting Up Data Feeds In Google Merchant Center
In this episode of Ticker Tuesday, we take you through what to be especially careful of when setting up a feed on Google Merchant Center. So whether you are setting up your Merchant account for AdWords Ad Extensions or Product …
Posted in Advanced PPC Strategies
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Google AdWords: Testing Job Ad Extensions?
Today’s news update from PPC Hero discusses the possibility of yet another ad extension option in Google AdWords becoming available to users. Read the following post to see how this change could affect your Google account!
Posted in News Updates
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Google Banned Keywords | hCG Being Added
One of our clients here at Hanapin is in the hCG diet space, which is a very exciting, fast paced, and competitive vertical in the PPC world. From an agency standpoint, it’s a great account to work on because accounts …
Posted in Google AdWords
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Google Announces Google Wallet
Yesterday, Google formally announced the pending launch of Google Wallet, an Android app that will allow you to use your phone as a multi-faceted payment card. Google Wallet will store all of your existing plastic cards (debit and credit) on …
Posted in News Updates
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Domain URL Now Makes Some Ads Have the Longest Headlines Ever
To be clear, I selected this title not for brevity, but to highlight that now some of your ads may actually be that long, in the first line. No, not exactly that long, but after this blog you’ll come to understand. So, to start, Google recently has announced that for select top position ads, the domain URL of the display URL will appear next to the headline of your ad, separated by a line like so:
Posted in Ad Texts, Advanced PPC Strategies, AdWords Editor
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Impressions Strongarm Relevance in adCenter Quality Score
A couple of days ago, Jessica’s latest episode of Ticker Tuesday focused on an issue that’s of pretty substantial interest to search marketers of late: adCenter quality score. Since Yahoo and MSN became one, many paid search advertisers have noticed …
Posted in Microsoft adCenter, Quality Score
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Google & Privacy – Adwords Wiggles into Your Private Life
The next time you read emails in your Gmail account, take a look at the advertisements on the side bar. Do they have anything to do with what you are talking about in your email? Chance are, they do. Gmail …
Posted in News Updates
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Be a Geek, No Matter What!
Happy Geek Pride Day, from all of us PPC Hero geeks! The first Geek Pride Festival was organized by Tim McEachern and was held in Albany New York. A manifesto was created to celebrate this event, and some of its …
Posted in PPC Hero
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Case Study: The Effects of Modified Broad Match Keywords
In July of last year, Google announced the global roll out of modified broad match keywords that had a greater reach than phrase match and more control than broad match. PPC advertisers welcomed this new match type as a way …
Posted in Case Studies, Match Types
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Google AdWords Announces Updates to Location Targeting
Google announced today that they would be making a few changes to the location targeting feature in AdWords starting July 8, 2011. Location targeting for account campaigns grew into 17 new countries back in February and since those additions, Google has been seeking out ways to continue the expansion of this feature in ways that make it “more accurate, easier to use and more flexible.”
The upcoming changes will affect the following:
Posted in News Updates
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