Intermediate PPC Strategies

PPC Hero's Account Expansion Series

Growing Your PPC Account Budget the Smart Way

So far in this series we’ve discussed utilizing betas and keyword research to expand and grow your paid search accounts, with some additional stuff on Display and video still to come. Guess what happens to your budget if and when you implement any of those methods? Your budget increases! But guess what else? There are totally other ways to increase your PPC budget! I know, I know – I’m blowing your mind.

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Proving the Value of PPC to C-Level Management

Should you be in-house, agency, freelance or some combination of the above, you have probably managed paid search accounts of various sizes. I’m not talking about just budget-wise; number of keywords, ad groups, campaigns, accounts in an MCC…you name it! …

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Handling Clients & Their PPC Performance Perceptions

Managing and setting client expectations is not necessarily a simple task in paid search. The reason isn’t because the client wants to make our lives difficult, despite it feeling that way. Their reason for being difficult is because it’s their …

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Tools to Analyze Your PPC Competition

It seemed like our PPC Hero audience really enjoyed Amanda’s competitor creep post from the other day, so I thought maybe a little more creeping was in order. I’m going to focus, however, on the various tools on the market …

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PPC for the First of the Month – Start Things Off On the Right Foot!

We’re right on the brink of a new month and are about to wrap up the first quarter of 2013. The last couple of weeks have also thrown some new curve balls at the paid search world with the release …

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The Seven Best PPC Lessons from February 2013

So what it was a short month?  Having two fewer calendar days doesn’t mean that the staff of PPC Hero didn’t come away with life changing lessons and insights.  We now present to you the best things that we began …

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How to Masterfully Inherit a Messy PPC Account

Every account inheritance situation is different and should be handled on a case-by-case basis; this is what I know. Whether you’re bringing the account on from an in-house or agency-managed situation, if the account has been on autopilot or actively …

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Search Funnels Have Arrived in the AdWords Interface. Use Them.

Lost amid last week’s reactions to Google’s new Enhanced Campaigns was a pretty nifty enhancement to the Google interface.  Search funnel information is now available for inclusion in the AdWords reporting, right alongside the rest of your data.  As long …

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Measuring & Improving Lost Impression Share

With impression share reporting changing a bit this week, there’s no better time than now to revisit the ins and outs of the metric and how it works! Odds are pretty good that your PPC accounts are not reaching their …