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PPC Problems Caused by Keyword Status

November 29th, 2011 | Kayla Kurtz | Basic PPC Strategies, Google AdWords, PPC Strategy

“My ads are all approved, but I can’t populate my ad using my keywords!” “I’m not seeing any conversions in one of my highest-performing ad groups!” “I’ve seen zero impressions in my new ad group!”

If any of these phrases sound familiar or you remember saying something similar recently and the feeling of despair and desperation that followed, then I have good news: everyone has these moments. The better news: the three issues above happened to me and were solved very …

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Improved Google Product Ads – Just In Time for the Holidays!

November 18th, 2011 | Sarah | Google AdWords

As a follow-up to last week’s blog series on holiday PPC management, which included tips on holiday keyword research, account structure, ad position and holiday-specific landing pages, I thought it would be beneficial to discuss Google’s recent improvements to their Product Ads, and why investing in Product Ads may be useful to you or your ecommerce clients this holiday shopping season.

Before I get into Google’s recent improvements, in case you’re aren’t currently using Product Ads, and/or you’re not familiar …

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Infographic: How the AdWords Auction Works

November 17th, 2011 | Bethany Bey | Google AdWords, Infographics

Our friends over at Wordstream have developed a great infographic showing how the AdWords Auction works. It includes what gets entered into each auction, how Google determines where ads are shown, and how Google determines what advertisers pay. Check it out!

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Google Bottom Ad Placements Eroding CTR

November 10th, 2011 | Jeff Allen | Google AdWords

I wrote a post last week about the new Google ad placements. It took a while for me to spot an instance of an ad at the bottom of search results, but I finally did. And when I did, it concerned me.

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Did You Know: Some Google Display Network Sites Don’t Track Conversions

November 9th, 2011 | Abby | Google AdWords, Google Display Network

As my client team was putting together monthly reports to send out, one of my team members noticed a pretty big disparity between the Display Network CPL showing in the Google interface and the CPL that was being calculated in Excel. It was a difference of $2.33. I reached out to a Google rep about this disparity, and received the following response: there are some sites on the Display Network that don’t support conversion tracking. …Exsqueeze me? Baking

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Will Google Update Impact Paid Search?

November 4th, 2011 | Jeff Allen | Google AdWords, News Updates

Will the update to the Google search algorithms affect paid search? The short answer, probably. But let’s dive in and set what the changes are and what I predict will happen.

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AdWords Express Now Available in UK and Germany

October 24th, 2011 | John Rampton | Basic PPC Strategies, Google AdWords

Google announced that AdWords Express will now be available to all UK and Germany advertisers. Google released AdWords Express earlier this year as a way to help local merchants to get more local customers coming to their websites.  In case this looks familiar to you, it used to be called Google Boost.

Basically how AdWords Express works is you give Google your local business information, address, phone, website, hours of operation, etc.  They take that info in puts up …

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Google AdWords Introduces Dynamic Search Ads

October 21st, 2011 | Amanda @Amanda_WestBook | Google AdWords, News Updates

Are you managing an AdWords account for a company that has tons of products? Do you find it difficult to keep up with writing ads for all the new products? Do products often get taken off the shelves before you have a chance to pause the ads? Well, Google hears your cries of frustration, friend. They’ve introduced the beta for Dynamic Search Ads.

So, here’s how they work: Google keeps …

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How I Manage a PPC Account With Overall Low Search Volume

October 10th, 2011 | Sarah | Basic PPC Strategies, Google AdWords, Keyword Research, Landing Pages, Match Types

This is the first post in our How I Manage A PPC Account With/Without ___________ series here on PPC Hero this week. Today I’ll be talking about how I manage a PPC account with overall low search volume. There can be many reasons your account has an overall low search volume; maybe the product/service you’re advertising is very specific or targeted, i.e. it’s just not something a lot of people are searching for. Or, maybe your product/brand isn’t that …

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Beyond The Click

October 3rd, 2011 | John Rampton | Analytics, Basic PPC Strategies, Google AdWords, Landing Pages

If you haven’t checked out our article about “The 20 most expensive keywords in Google Adwords” you should really check it out.  It goes over the top keywords in Google. The top 20 keywords are insurance, loans, mortgage, attorney, credit, lawyer, donate, degree, hosting, claim, conference call, trading, software, recovery, transfer, gas/electricity, classes, rehab, treatment, cord blood.  I have several different clients that …

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