By Frederick Felman, CMO, MarkMonitor According to The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO), search advertising has grown 286% in the last five years and will increase from $14.6 billion to $16.6 billion in 2010. The future for search engine...
Continue Reading Cybersquatting and Paid Search: What Brands Need to Know
Everyone in the PPC world understands the importance of ad text testing. We care, we think it’s important, we wanna do it…and you know what? For reals, it’s complicated. The headline lied. Most of us don’t have one campaign with...
Continue Reading Never Odd Or Even: PPC Ad Text Testing Made Easy
When it comes to promoting an event, the Internet can be of great help. Whether you need to generate buzz or post local announcements, PPC should be a primary weapon in your arsenal. Kevin Burns over at WPromote has an...
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero’s four most visited, and hopefully most valuable articles from April. Whether you’re a new or long-time subscriber, you may have missed these insightful and helpful PPC management tips. Erin’s...
The end of June, I wrote about the new experiment settings in Google AdWords allowing you to test different elements in your account to see if the changes really do improve performance. For instance, you can choose to lower your...
Continue Reading Google Experiment Settings Part 2 – the results are in!
There is an update coming to the AdWords legal terms and agreements that you should be aware of. If you manage a different companies account or if you have hired someone to manage your account (most of you fall into...
It is an exciting time of change at Hanapin Marketing. We are getting ready to move into a bigger facility, we have a new sister company Tingian Ventures in development and a couple of our loyal team members have moved...
Continue Reading Two Birds with One Stone: Transition an Account & Improve it at the Same Time
PPC is highly competitive and the inflated keyword costs make it that much more difficult to compete. As a small business owner, if you are certain to be outranked in the search engines for popular phrases relating to your services,...
If you’re looking for an extra outlet, a little more bang for your buck, maybe you should look into third tier search engines. Although they don’t get as much traffic as the big three (soon-to-be two), they may be more...
You spend the time to develop the right keyword list and write very targeted ads to help increase your traffic, click through rate and ultimately quality score. But that is only one piece of the equation – where are you...
If you’ve been burned by poorly managed broad match keywords in the past, Google just released the Broad Match Modifier in the U.S. According to George Michie from RKG blog. With BMM you can use a + sign in front...
Would you like some extra cash? Do you have a website or blog, or at least an idea for one? Do you have time to commit to updating that site with content? If you answered “yes” to all of these...
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