Monthly Archives: July 2012

5 Ways adCenter beats AdWords

Microsoft adCenter is often dismissed in PPC circles as a much more cumbersome, AdWords lite. However, we’re here today to dispel some myths! While adCenter certainly used to be painfully slow to use, the latest iteration of the interface is …

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Story Appeal and Facebook Ads

There are a lots of ways to make your image visually prominent or striking: Bright colors or borders that cut through the blue and white Facebook backgorund Close-ups of human faces or products Sex appeal, Dynamic Angles and/or Foreshortening Visual …

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WTQ?! Whacky Weddings Edition

Weddings are weird. They’re the ultimate expression of a couple’s love for each other, and sometimes that love is just weird. Everyone wants to showcase whatever weird thing they share as a couple, and they want their wedding to be …

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Christmas in July: Considerations for Holiday Planning

The holidays loom for retail marketers, making July the time to start thinking about paid search campaign planning if you want to ensure your efforts are a success. Yes, it might be painful thinking about Black Friday keywords and holiday …

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PPC Myth Busters- Webinar!

There are a lot of myths in PPC. These come about from someone finding a specific strategy worked for their specific account and writing a blog article about it, from Google deciding something is a great idea and spreading it to the masses, or just from misconceptions about stuff that we’ve never even actually tried. August’s webinar will set the record straight! Register here!

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Audit Webinar Q&A: Includes Free Audit Checklist For First Fifty Readers!

Earlier this week I hosted a webinar extolling the virtues of conducting a PPC audit. We had a lot of feedback and follow up questions, which we really appreciated. A lot of you asked about the checklist I use when …

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Benefits of a Paid Search Audit- Webinar Recording

We had a great session yesterday with Sam Owen walking us through best practice and strategy for auditing your paid search accounts. From prioritizing when you should be auditing your accounts to what you should be looking at during the …

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Conversion Rate Optimization For PPC: Mo’ Money, Less Problems

This Whaddya’know Wednesday, Amanda West-Bookwalter takes you on a step by step guide through optimizing your PPC account’s conversion rate. Through website design best practices, usability testing, showing you how to set up Google Analytics conversion funnels, and how to …

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Suspended Motion: How to Get Your PPC Account Reactivated

It happens. It’s terrible (every time). You followed all the guidelines or rules for the search engine in question, yet somehow…you’ve been suspended. I’ll tell you flat out that my initial reaction anytime I’ve been first-hand involved in an account …

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6 Useless PPC Account Audit Techniques

PPC Audits are incredibly useful. At our agency we have Account Mangers audit accounts routinely and they almost always find ways to increase account performance that the lead on the account glossed over. We also perform audits for companies small …

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