Ad Texts

How hard can it be to write a 25 character headline, and a 75 character PPC ad text?! Pretty darn hard! Writing successful pay-per-click ad texts is an art form. You have to know how to present a vast amount of information and persuasion in a little, tiny space. The articles listed here will help you write awesome paid search ad texts!


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Facebook Ads: The Brilliant Ones Make It Look Easy

Whether it’s ballroom dancing, sports, movies, or advertising, genius make it look easy. And what’s so freaking cool about this Facebook ad, is that it really does fall into that category.   Take a look and see for yourself:   …

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5 Reasons Your PPC Ads Bite

A big mistake most PPC newbs and vets make is that they don’t take their ad copy seriously. It’s sometimes an afterthought after building out an account or at worst it’s a copy and paste job from one campaign/ad group …

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Ad Copy Clean Up – What to Get Rid of & What to Keep

There is a time to review your account ad copy…and the time is now! While it’s bright and sunshine-y out and you can keep yourself motivated! Right? Right!

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Why So Many Ads for Beta Brands?

OK, because I notice the ads on my Facebook page a bit more than regular folk, I sometimes find myself wondering “why is this ad targeted to me?”   If the ad seems too on the mark, I wonder how …

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What Some Facebook Ads Actually Get Right

I’ve spent a lot of time in this column deconstructing either bad Facebook ads, or good Facebook ads that could be made a lot better. And I’d like to think that’s helpful, but at some point the question comes up: …

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Finalist: Optimizing and Targeting for User Behavior

Editorial note: This guest post is a finalist in our Hero Conf scholarship event. Jeremy Estes currently works on the paid search team at Standing Dog Interactive in Dallas, Texas. When I first started building PPC campaigns, 7 or 8 …

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Writing Successful PPC Ad Copy – Building from Account Structure & Beyond

If the structure is off, no other account element will be able to function as needed, given their reliance on the structure. Ad copy is no exception to this rule, but if the structure is there to back you up you’re already one step closer to ad copy success. Follow these back-to-basics and advanced ad copy suggestions and you’ll be even closer!

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The Seven Best PPC Lessons from February 2013

So what it was a short month?  Having two fewer calendar days doesn’t mean that the staff of PPC Hero didn’t come away with life changing lessons and insights.  We now present to you the best things that we began …

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Facebook Ads: Don’t Bury the Lede

Take a look at this ad I found on my wife’s Facebook page:     Ok, so, the picture is great, because it’s instantaneously and unmistakeably recognized as a wedding shot. And a fairly interesting or artsy shot at that. …

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Judging your PPC Ads by Analytics Metrics

I thought I’d write a quick blog post as I’ve been working on some ad test results this morning and wanted to share a quick set of techniques for judging winners without conversion data. Most of the time we talk …