Author: John

About John

John is a former Account Manger at Hanapin Marketing, a search engine marketing firm focused on generating results through pay-per-click advertising.

Microsoft Unleashes a Round of Spring Updates for adCenter

Early this morning, the adCenter blog published 5 posts detailing all of the changes they’ve pushed live as part of their Spring 2009 Upgrade.  Microsoft continues to drive their advertising platform forward, and unlike Google who releases a new feature …

Learn How to Import Your Google Analytics Goals into AdWords Conversion Tracking

Early on in my search marketing career, one of the discrepencies that annoyed me most was that Google Analytics and Google AdWords were almost entirely separate entities.  With the exception of AdWords data populating in Analytics, there wasn’t any cross-functionality …

8 Geo-Targeting Dos and Don’ts You Need to Follow

Welcome to day 2 of our week-long series on PPC geo-targeting!  When navigating the expansive waters of geo-targeting with pay-per-click, there are about as many tactics to employ as there are locations to target. Choosing the right geo-targeting tactics can …

Geo-Targeting Basics: A How-To Guide on Setting Up Geo-Targeting in Google, Yahoo and MSN

As part of our week-long series on PPC geo-targeting, today I’m going to showcase the basics of setting up geo-targeting in the “big three” pay-per-click search engines. While the general process for setting up geo-targeting is similar between Google AdWords, …

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 …

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 …

Bonus! Business.com Adds Conversion Tracking

For those of us who believe in the power of vertical search engines, Business.com has given us another reason to celebrate: Conversion Tracking for Featured Listings! I’m a fan of Business.com’s Feature Listings (big word for PPC) and was just …

Ad Text Testing – a PPC Manager’s Constant Friend and Companion

When everything else in the PPC world has gone away, ad text testing will still remain standing. OK, maybe that’s a bit grandiose. What I’m getting at is pay-per-click advertising is awash with bells and whistles, hoosits and whatsits (galore) …

Google Updates Search Query Report Functionality: Query Depth = All Queries

It’s weird how Google just slips things into the AdWords reporting interface. In the course of pulling some Search Query Reports today, the PPC Hero team discovered that Google now has added a new report setting: Query Depth And don’t …