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Google AdWords is the king of all search engines. As you can see we spend a great deal of time working with Google in the pursuit of perfecting our AdWords campaigns. At PPC Hero you will learn all there is to know about Google AdWords – whether you’re a beginner or PPC pro.

Google Launches a New Adwords Help Forum

December 4th, 2008 | Andrea | Google AdWords

Today Google announced the launch of a new help forum for Adwords users.

This new and improved forum is a place for novice and advanced AdWords users to ask questions, get answers, build relationships among fellow PPC experts, not to mention, connect with businesses using Adwords.

Google says their own Adwords experts will frequent the forum and answer questions.

Here are some of the features Google mentions about the new forums:

  • Public recognition of Top Contributors and frequent posters
  • Improved search functionality and integration with the AdWords Help Center
  • Better spam detection and prevention
  • Question & answer format to help you find answers quickly
  • Ability to subscribe …
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Utilize the Google Search Partner Network to Increase Your PPC Performance

December 4th, 2008 | Joe | Advanced PPC Strategies, Google AdWords

We often discuss the search network and content network distribution within Google AdWords. However, we have not explored AdWords’ third distribution channel: Google Search Partners. Today, we will discuss the these Google Search Partners are, how they effect your PPC campaign, and how can you monitor/manage them effectively.

First, let’s figure out what these Search Partners are. The Search Partners consist of sites that are within the Google Search Network. Your ads may appear alongside or above search results, as part of a results page as a user navigates through a site’s directory, or on other relevant …

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How Can You Expand Your PCC Reach? Target Blog RSS Feeds With Google AdWords!

November 18th, 2008 | Joe | Google AdWords

Recently, Google AdWords announced that they have expanded their placement targeting to include RSS feeds for blogs that have opted into the AdSense network. Today,  I thought we’d cover how you can find this new information within your AdWords account.

First, why would you specifically target RSS (really simple syndication) feeds for blogs? RSS feed placements allow you to connect with a tech savvy audience through AdWords’ ever expanding network of publishers like Blogspot, Digg, Reuters, and more. These users are very web-friendly and their online activity may be more extensive than your casual browser.

How do you find these RSS feeds …

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Has the Google AdWords Landing Page Quality Score Changed? Find Out!

November 13th, 2008 | Joe | Google AdWords, Google AdWords Quality Score

Whenever we are reading through the dozens upon dozens of blogs that we subscribe to, we are always on the the lookout for anything pertaining to the Google AdWords Quality Score. Anyone who reads PPC Hero can attest to the fact that we love to discuss the AdWords Quality Score. So, whenever we see a post about this topic our interest is automatically piqued!

On Tuesday, we discovered a post on Search Engine Watch entitled, “Google AdWords Quality Score — That’s Old-School for SEO” by Mark Jackson. Naturally, this article caught our collective eye. The article discusses a new …

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Google Says You Should be Including Canada in All Your PPC Campaigns, What!?

November 6th, 2008 | Amber | Google AdWords

In the Google newsletter yesterday they announced that they will be automatically including Canada in all new campaigns.  If you don’t want to target Canada you must remember to go into your campaign and remove the country from your geo-targeting settings.
We want to call your attention to a change in the campaign set-up process. The default location targeting setting now defaults to the United States and Canada as opposed to just the United States. If you don’t want to include Canada, you’ll need to update that setting before running the campaign, says Google.
I think for people who are geo-targeting a …

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Google Terminates Advertising Agreement with Yahoo

November 5th, 2008 | Joe | Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing

This evening I received a notification from Yahoo that Google has terminated the advertising agreement between the two companies. I’ll let the actual announcement speak for itself (see below):

Dear Advertiser,

We wanted to reach out to you directly regarding Google’s decision, announced earlier today, to terminate the advertising services agreement that the companies announced in June. Yahoo! continues to believe in the benefits of the agreement, and is disappointed that Google has elected to withdraw from the agreement rather than defend it in court. Google notified …

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Have You Seen This? Expanded Product View on Google PPC

October 24th, 2008 | John | Google AdWords

Today, Marketing Pilgrim discussed something new in Google search results – expanded product views in AdWords ads!  The example given was for Blue Nile, the massive diamond retailer.  The regular PPC ad is still intact, but there is a plusbox under the ad that says “show more products…”  

Once opened, images and expanded descriptions are displayed below the normal PPC ad.

Crazy stuff.  In the comments of the Marketing Pilgrim post, Jordan McCollum speculated that this could be a by-product of Google …

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Use Your Impression Share Report To Increase Clicks and Conversions

October 7th, 2008 | Joe | Google AdWords, Reporting / Conversion Tracking

What do you do when you feel like you’ve hit the traffic ceiling for your campaigns? There are no budgets restricting your ad distribution but you still feel like you aren’t generating the amount of traffic you think you’re capable of. The next step you can take is to focus on your campaigns’ impression share. Today, I would like to define Impression Share within Google AdWords, what it means to you, and how you can improve this aspect of your campaign.

Impression share is a metric that represents the …

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Why Position Preference May Stop Showing Your Ads

October 2nd, 2008 | Amber | Google AdWords

One thing I love about managing PPC campaigns is that I’m always exploring new features, using new tools, running different reports, etc. In this process I always manage to learn something new.  I have used the position preference tool in Google before but I didn’t notice that it can be a tricky tool to use and the results can be disappointing. Not because my ads may not display in the position I expect to be in, but because my ads we literally turned off because of my position preference settings!

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