PPC News Round Up

The PPC Hero team takes on the task of perusing the web and industry blogs for the best PPC related content and gives you them all in a witty, concise format -posted once a week right here to our blog.


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MichelleMSEM’s Q&A with an AdWords Rep About the New Ad Rotation Settings

This post originally appeared on MichelleMSEM and is cross-posted with permission from @michellemsem. For those of you who keep reasonably up to date with the goings on in Google AdWords, you’ll know that they’ve recently made some changes to the …

PPC News Roundup for March 4, 2011 – Au Revoir!

Au Revoir, Adios, Aloha Goodbye! The PPC News Roundups have been part of our family of posts for four years, but, at last, we must say goodbye. In an industry where things are constantly changing and evolving, we know we …

PPC News Roundup for February 25, 2011 Plus – Twitter Promo!

If you haven’t heard yet, the last Friday of every month, YOU have a chance for your PPC blog post to be featured in our weekly News Roundups! How, you may ask? By Tweeting it to us, I answer! You’ll …

PPC News Roundup for February 18, 2011 Plus – Twitter Promo!

To kick things off this week, I’d like to mention a promo we are running through our Twitter account @ppchero. If you’d like to have your blog post included in our roundup next Friday, February 25, shoot us a link …

PPC News Roundup for February 11, 2011

Remember last week’s roundup about the originality argument between Google and Bing?  Well, the plot has thickened.  As reported by Danny Goodwin of Search Engine Watch, a recently released Hitwise/Compete report shows that Bing’s popularity is increasing online.  This is …

PPC News Roundup for February 4, 2011

Ladies and gentlemen, the gloves are off.  On Tuesday, February 1, Google released a statement accusing Bing of cheating off of Google’s search results algorithm.  In an article first reported at Search Engine Land by Danny Sullivan, Google announced that …

PPC News Roundup for January 28, 2011

Google Adwords introduced negative keywords lists as an improvement over the previous platform.  Negative keywords help control campaign spends and filter out undesirable traffic that results in low conversion rates.  David Iwanow explains the benefits of these lists in his …

PPC News Roundup for January 21, 2011

Groupon might have rejected Google’s offer to buy them, but that didn’t stop Google from getting into the deal-of-the-day market. Waving the surrender flag isn’t really Google’s style. Mashable broke the story last night that Google has confirmed “Google Offers,” …

PPC News Roundup for January 14, 2011

Attention local business owners and marketers: Check out these winning tips by PPC Blog’s Geordie on quickly generating leads for local businesses on Facebook.  Facebook’s advertising platform has advanced user interest and demographic targeting that can really assist in reaching …

PPC News Roundup for January 7, 2011

The rule of thumb is that bidding on highly relevant, targeted keywords will help your conversion rate and cost per lead, while cutting down on irrelevant clicks.  So what do you do when those keywords result in a lot competition …