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Archive for the ‘Ad Texts’ Category
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!
What Your Text Ads Say About You
PPC ads are like a first impression for your company or product. How you do want to come across – cheap, smart, desperate? A potential customer sees your ads first and if they are interested beyond the “hand-shake”, will click to find out more. Going along with this analogy, your landing page could then be called the first date – the customer has expressed some interest but wants to get to know you a little better before they …
Never Odd Or Even: PPC Ad Text Testing Made Easy
Everyone in the PPC world understands the importance of ad text testing. We care, we think it’s important, we wanna do it…and you know what? For reals, it’s complicated. The headline lied. Most of us don’t have one campaign with three ad groups to deal with, we have three hundred ad groups, and a lot of us aren’t really willing to sit around and let tests run for the sake of running to completion when we just know that x or y …
Ad Text Tips and Tricks for the Content Network
The Google content network is a mash up of many different sites and how people discover your ads on these sites is a little different than traditional search. People may or may not be searching for your brand or product, so they more or less stumble upon your ad and it takes a little more convincing to get them to hand over their click. It is important to approach content network ads a little differently than search campaigns.
Including Image Ads In Your Marketing Mix
As online marketing grows, it’s becoming imperative that we as advertisers find ways to set ourselves apart from the competition. We’ve written many posts in the past about the importance of ad text testing, so below you will find a few tips and tricks to help include image ads in your mix if you decide they fit your business objectives.
Image Ads
Image ads (a.k.a. banner ads) are run on the content network, and they are a great way to add an …
5 PPC Resolutions for 2010
Since we’re only a couple days away from the end of 2009 and many of us are working a short week this week, it seems like a good time to pull out a classic end of year cliche: the Resolution List! Like many people, I don’t like New Year’s resolutions. I usually don’t make them, partly because choosing an arbitrary date – January 1st, for example – to begin making life changes always seemed a bit disingenuous, and partly because, …
What Keeps Someone From Clicking on Your PPC Ad?
Sure, paid search ad copy contains only 25 characters for the headline (in AdWords) and 70 characters for the body copy, but this small space can be very complex to utilize optimally.
Within the confines of a PPC ad text you need to be relevant to your keywords, list as many benefits as possible, be unique and stand out from your competition, and include a clear call-to-action. As you strive to to incorporate all of these tactics into your ad …
4 Pitfalls of Dynamic Keyword Insertion (DKI)
Dynamic Keyword Insertion (DKI) is an advanced feature in each major search engine that can help you create more relevant ad text by automatically inserting a search query into an ad text. When used correctly, this tool can be very helpful in increasing the relevancy and click-through rate of an ad text. But if not applied correctly, your ad can end up disjointed, confusing, and completely irrelevant.
Adding Testimonials to Your PPC Ads Can Help Increase Click-Through Rates
One of my larger clients is a resort/casino here in Indiana. The resort truly is beautiful, but there have been many other resorts/casinos popping up in the Indianapolis area making for some good competition.
I typically like to include as many benefits in my PPC ad texts as possible. Whether a client is offering free shipping, or free returns, or even free estimates/quotes, those ads will typically get the higher click-through rate therefore helping to increase my Quality Score.
One …
Top 10 Reasons Why Your Ads Aren’t Showing in Google
Your new pay-per-click account is structured, keywords loaded, ad text optimized. You activate your Adwords campaign, expecting great things, then… nothing. No spend. No impressions. No clicks. Don’t worry, it can happen to anyone. Chances are, there is one issue in your account that is preventing your ad text from appearing in the search results. Problem is, there are several possible reasons why your ads aren’t showing in Google.
The PPC Hero team frequently receives questions from readers regarding ad serving …
