Author: Bethany Bey

About Bethany Bey

Bethany is a former Account Executive at Hanapin Marketing, a search engine marketing firm focused on generating results through pay-per-click advertising.
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It’s PPC Hero’s 5th Birthday!

PPC Hero turns 5 years old today and he’s showing SEO Boy and Ms. Clicks that he’s stronger than ever.

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Are Facebook Leads Less Valuable Than Google Leads?

At Hanapin, we encourage our clients to test out many different advertising platforms to see which work best for their business. From my experience, one of the hardest platforms to get clients to buy in to is Facebook. Even though …

Inheriting account

Ultimate Guide to Inheriting PPC Accounts

Until now, there was no roadmap to help individuals and SEM firms successfully inherit and optimize a pay-per-click (PPC) account. Numerous publications have surfaced about creating PPC accounts from scratch, but inheriting and enhancing a pre-existing account requires an entirely different skill set.

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Guide to URL Tagging and Tracking in Google Analytics

Over the years, we’ve written a lot of articles on a wide variety of topics related to PPC. Even though we post new content almost every day, there are some posts that seem to resonate more with our readers over …

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Analytics Regular Expression Characters

Google Analytics Regular Expressions

Regular expressions can seem like a foreign language, but once you know how they work you won’t know how you ever used Google Analytics without them . This post will help you understand how each of the regular expressions function and includes examples of how they can be used for your account.

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The Top 10 Industries That Spent The Most in AdWords in 2011

Our friends at Wordstream have just published a new infographic showing where Google earned it’s $37.9 billion advertising revenues in 2011. The infographic below shows the top 10 industries that spent the most in AdWords last year, as well as …

Misconceptions

4 PPC Misconceptions of AdWords Keywords

Have you ever gone on thinking something was correct, telling it to others, only to realize later that what you whole-heartedly believed in well, wasn’t. Like when I would sing along with Bill Withers “Give Me the Beach Boys” or …

Happy 2012!

It’s that time again, a year has gone by and a new one is about to start. PPC Hero and SEO Boy are getting into the spirit as Father Time and Baby New Year, but it looks like Ms. Clicks …

5 Questions You Need To Answer About Your PPC Account Using MCF

Multi-channel funnels give PPC managers the opportunity to better understand the role PPC plays in the conversion process. If you haven’t started looking into multi-channel reports for your account, it’s time to start. Below are 5 questions you need to answer to better understand your pay per click advertising.

PPC Hero’s Guide to Multi-Channel Funnels for PPC Managers

Google MCF Puzzel

Multi-Channel Funnels were launched earlier this year and, personally, I think it’s the most valuable tool Google has released since I started workingin PPC. Before multi-channel funnels, showing clients the true value of PPC advertising was nearly impossible. Now, MCF allows PPC managers to see all how all the pieces of online marketing channels work together to create a conversion. This tool is so valuable to all of us at PPC Hero that we’ve created a guide to how to use multi-channel funnels to get insights on your PPC accounts and improve overall performance.