Content / Display Network

AdWords and adCenter each have their own content network. If you don’t know what you’re doing, the Content Network within any search engine (especially Google!) can be a black hole for your paid search budget. But if you master the Content Network, this can be a great source of traffic and revenue.


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Frequency Capping with Confidence on the Display Network

Google offers a really great report on the Dimensions tab that shows you how your display ads perform depending on how many times a user has seen them.  We’ve talked about the report before (along with how great it is), …

Google Bing Spring Cleaning

Spring Clean Your Display Campaigns

Many accounts are focused on Search, because it normally performs better than Display. This is especially true for eCommerce and most direct response accounts. That sometimes leads to Display Network campaigns being a hot mess.

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Case Study: Boosting Display Campaign Traffic Quality

Last week PPC Hero’s own Eric Couch detailed how to make display campaigns with higher quality traffic using category exclusions. On the back of his post I thought I’d set up a case study in one of my accounts and …

Google Display Questions

11 Important Questions You Must Ask Yourself About Your Google Display Campaigns

For the final part of our January series – Things to test in your account in 2013 – I’m going to be diving into the wonderful world of the Google Display Network, or GDN for those of us who love …

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Just How Annoying Are Your Ads?

There’s a fine line to walk when it comes to targeting.  Being too aggressive can be very off putting, but you want to make sure that you capture all possible interest out there.  Google has a feature that will allow …

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Lessons Learned From AdWords Flexible Reach

Lots of crazy stuff has happened in PPC during 2012.  Even though that’s been true pretty much every year since its launch, we at PPC Hero felt that it was a big enough year to justify its very own series.  …

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10 Ways to Decrease Your Display Network CPA

The Display network is a beast. This is just a fact. An even truer fact is that Display will run away with your budget and CPA if you let it. We had a recent request at PPC Hero for some …

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Google Display and Placement Fraud – Is Your Money Being Wasted?

Learn more about the Google Display Network and Placement Fraud and how you can protect yourself.