Advanced PPC Strategies

Are you ready to take your pay-per-click campaign’s performance to the next level? These advanced PPC strategies will give your paid search accounts a kick in the pants! Whether you need a lesson in complex bidding strategies, an explanation of the finer points of improving your Quality Score or a quick study in pay-per-click lead generation – these advanced PPC strategies are your ticket to better PPC performance.


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Brad Geddes Presents: How to Identify Google AdWords Quality Score Problems

Is the quality score of your keywords limiting your account? How can you tell? Where do you start fixing them? In a PPC Hero first-look exclusive, Brad Geddes, voted the most influential person in PPC, teaches you how to extract …

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Ad Testing With Tight Margins: Keep Control

Ad testing is a major portion of what we do as PPCers. The large-scale impact is that without great ads, we won’t convert sales or leads on a consistent basis.  In our PPC ecosystem, another factor that must not be …

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3 View-through Conversion Attribution Problems

View-through conversions are conversions where a customer saw—but didn’t click— a display ad on the display network before completing a conversion. – source Agencies and account managers want to report this, or a portion of these to their clients and …

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Advanced PPC: Optimizing for Per Visit Value

You likely have keywords that spend money, get conversions, but convert at well below CPA/CPL goal. While these keywords are frustrating, the real sneaky profit killer keywords are those that spend money, get conversions but hide underneath good performance. Good …

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How To Set Up Your Own SBS Keyword Analysis

Keyword analysis can be a daunting task, particularly for larger accounts with robust keyword lists. Fortunately, we have a variety of tools available at our fingertips to help us digest the data at hand. For instance, AdWords offers up several …

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Reach Expansion Final Four Series Wrap Up

Get a quick recap of our Reach Expansion Final Four Series for March PPC Madness.  Your finalists include Pinterest, Facebook, LinkedIn and Amazon Product Ads.  Don’t miss any part of this journey down the road to helping you expand your reach in different marketing elements!

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Slam Dunk! In Your Face(book)!

Welcome to the second installment of our Reach Expansion Final Four series for March PPC Madness!  Today’s bracket is all about Facebook.  We all know and love it as the platform that keeps us socially viable and in the loop.  But does it work for marketing and PPC specifically?  Read this article for a few case studies and tips on giving your client a great starting line up!

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Mobile Growth and Utilization

Jeff Allen, an Account Manager at Hanapin Marketing, conducted this interview with Josh Aston. Josh is Director of Online Marketing at Progrexion (which is not a client of Hanapin Marketing.) He is leading Progrexion’s efforts in the mobile marketplace.   …

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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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Elite SEM Extreme Segmentation through Proprietary Bid & Campaign Management Tool

Developing a great account structure is the key to getting off on the right foot in the PPC game. The first layer of a PPC account is the campaign level. Google suggests mimicking the structure (or “sitemap”) of your site …