If you’ve been following our blog for a while you probably feel like a PPC expert. The next question is how can you leverage your expertise and begin selling your PPC services to others. PeterD of PPC Blog has written...
Image Ads: Why Bother?
Though we’ve seen much success from running text-only campaigns on the display network and continue to have many accounts with successful text-only display ad groups, I think there’s growing evidence that well-designed (and well-tested, as always with all ads) image...
Three Things Google Doesn’t Want You to Know About Quality Score
As most online advertisers know, Quality Score is a key determinant in how high your ad appears in Google search results. A high Quality Score (say between 7 and 10) will push up your ad, while a low Quality Score...
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Managing the Content Network in Google and Bing
Ah, the display (a.k.a. content) network. If you’re like me you have a love/hate relationship with it. While it can increase your leads, it also has the potential to spend a lot of money VERY quickly on irrelevant clicks. However,...
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PPC News Roundup for October 8, 2010
I always get excited when a client’s click-through-rate has increased while cost-per-click has gone down. What can be overlooked though is it doesn’t matter if you’re getting a million clicks a day for one cent each if none of your...
Our Greatest Hits For September 2010
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero’s four most visited, and hopefully most valuable articles from September.
How to Troubleshoot Conversion Tracking Issues
We all know the importance of data but what is even more important is that the data you are tracking is correct. Your PPC success hinges on not only the numbers in your account but also that the numbers you...
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Google Is Not Creepy
Every day Google is becoming smarter, and in turn making it easier for advertisers to more effectively reach their target audiences. Now, this could be viewed as another supposed step towards world dominance as referenced in jest in some of...
PPC News Roundup for September 24, 2010 Plus – Twitter Promo!
To kick things off this week, I’d like to mention a promo we are running through our Twitter account (@ppchero – and yes, I did just promote a promotion). If you’d like to have your blog post included in our...
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How Can I Make it Better? Part 5: Improving Ad Text
Today is the final installment of our “how can I make it Better?” series. If you haven’t been keeping up, our topics thus far have been on improving account structure, quality score, landing pages, click-through rate, and now today I’m...
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PPC News Roundup for September 24, 2010
Want to boost your paid search clicks without increasing your budget? Of course you do! Mike Fleming of Search Engine Guide has advice for accomplishing just that. His tip for increasing clicks is to discover untapped markets that can become...
How Can I Make it Better? Part 4: Improving Click-Through Rate
In the last couple of weeks on PPC Hero, we have been writing a series of posts themed, “how can I make it better?” Jen started the series with tips on improving your account structure. Amy then gave readers 6...
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