Pay-per-click marketing and web analytics – they go together like peas and carrots. Why you ask? Because the reports provided by the PPC search engines aren’t always enough! Services like Google Analytics provide advertisers with a wealth of knowledge for fine-tuning and perfecting their paid-search campaigns. This includes data like bounce rate, time on site or goal funnel visualizations. For advertisers who are using Analytics in tandem with their AdWords PPC account, the process for …
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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.
2 Major Reasons Why You Should Run a Search Query Report Today!
The search query report was introduced in Google Adwords last summer. The report shows performance data for the actual search queries that triggered your ads. You can easily run the report in your Google Adwords account by simply going to the reports tab, and selecting Search Query Performance Report.
If you’ve run a search query report in Google Adwords you very well may be aware that there are some problems with the report. For example, a good …
Selling PPC Services: How to Present PPC to C-Level Executives
February 29th, 2008 | Joe | Advanced PPC Strategies
Today’s article is the last in our Advanced PPC Strategies series. We’ll be taking a slightly different turn, as today we will not be talking management strategy, but we will focus on how to present your pay-per-click services to C-level executives. By C-level we mean CEO’s, COO’s, CMO’s or CFOs – most any title that starts with ‘Chief.’ To instill a sense of trust you need to …
Dynamic Landing Page Content: How to Increase Conversions through Increased Relevancy
All week we’ve been writing on Advanced PPC Strategies. So far we’ve covered everything from trademark policies and international PPC to special B2B considerations. My charge today is to explain how you can increase conversion rates and overall relevancy with dynamic landing page content. By now most PPC advertisers know that dynamic keyword insertion (DKI) can be a …
International PPC Campaigns: How to Target Outside the US With Success
February 27th, 2008 | Amber | Advanced PPC Strategies
Today is the third day in our week long series on advanced PPC strategies. According to a Search Marketing Now webinar, 75% of the world’s searches are performed outside of North America. That’s a large number, which tells me there is a lot of opportunity to reach additional customers, to increase traffic, and revenue. Targeting outside North America does require a specific understanding of the localized markets in …
PPC for B2B: Real World Recommendations You Can Use
February 26th, 2008 | John | Advanced PPC Strategies
Today is part 2 of our week long series on Advanced PPC Strategies. When I solicited for feedback a few weeks ago, one of the best comments I received was a request for tips on managing PPC for business-to-business (B2B) clients. Through my experiences with B2B pay-per-click campaigns I understand why this is such an important topic. There are vast differences between targeting general consumers versus business …
PPC, Trademark Laws, and Copyright Laws: How to Play Fair and Still Win
February 25th, 2008 | Joe | Advanced PPC Strategies
This week we are exploring advanced PPC strategies, and bidding on branded keywords is a regularly debated tatic. According to a study conducted by Hitwise, one in seven brand searches do not end up at the searched-for brand’s website. This is an indication of a number of search trends:
- Bidding on branded keywords, your own as well as those of your competitors, is absolutely …
Advanced PPC Strategies: With Great Knowledge Comes Great PPC Performance
February 24th, 2008 | Amber | Advanced PPC Strategies
Recently, we asked our readers what topics they would like to see covered when it comes to advanced pay-per-click management strategies. There were several good suggestions, and this week we’re going to discuss some of the topics our readers are most interested in learning about.
Writing about advanced PPC management can help veteran ppc’ers as well as beginners. Brushing up on PPC management basics is always necessary, but advanced …
Use Demographics To Geographically Target Your PPC Ads
A number of my PPC campaigns are geographically targeted, as I’m sure many of your PPC campaigns are as well. For these campaigns I adhere to my list of best PPC practices: ad text testing, bid management, keyword research, content optimization, and the list goes on and on. Every month I strive to expand my campaigns’ reach, but within a prescribed …
Take Advantage of Search Cycles with Ad Scheduling
Almost everything in the universe is cyclical. The planets, the seasons, migration of birds. And search engine marketing is no different. There are many examples of the cyclical nature of search: for most non-retail advertisers, the end of the year (Nov-Dec) is the low tide for traffic; the Saturday before Christmas is the busiest internet shopping day of the year each year; overall, weekends are always slower than weekdays (most people do their searching at …
