There is a deep, deep well of information contained within Google Analytics that can help your PPC account. But if you’re new to the program, where do you begin? To kick off our series of “Give Us 5 Days, and...
Give Us 5 Days, and We’ll Teach You How to Maximize Your PPC Results by Using Google Analytics
If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times – pay-per-click management and a working knowledge of analytics go hand in hand! Over the past year, all of us here at PPC Hero have written a post here...
PPC News Roundup for May 29, 2009
Ever think about the future of search marketing in a social web world? Kerstin Baker-Ash has written an intriguing article discussing current pitfalls in utilizing paid advertising on social networks. While the current advertising situation isn’t the greatest, she’s optimistic...
Keep Your AdWords Account Safe: Don’t Fall For Phishing!
Recently, there have been reports that AdWords users have received fraudulent emails that appear to be from Google – but they are not. These fraudulent emails (otherwise known as “phishing emails”) ask users to update their billing information, edit their...
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Avoid the One Size Fits All Mentality! PPC Search Engines Are Not Created Equal
When I read the Different Engines, Different Tactics article from the MSN adCenter blog, I literally felt a slap on my face. This topic zeroed in on one of my PPC weaknesses and everyone in my office could hear my...
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Google Automatic Matching Test Only Generated 1 Click!
Back in March I wrote a post on the new Google Adwords Automatic matching beta, as well as Joe my colleague wrote on the subject just last week. At the time none of my accounts qualified for the beta and...
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What You Need to Know About Google Automatic Matching
Some of you may have noticed an alert within your Google AdWords account that says, “New! Automatic matching has been enabled in your account.” What is “automatic matching”? The one-sentence summary from Google states, “Your ads will now show for...
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PPC News Roundup for May 22, 2008
Still having trouble with the Google Adwords Quality score? Check out this cool video by Matthew Bredel from ‘Inside the Marketing Mind’ that goes in depth about what the quality score is, and how you can improve it within your...
From 19 Leads to 95. Turn Your PPC Account into a Lead Generating Machine!
Today I’d like to share with you some tactics that I’ve used personally to help turn one of my pay-per-click accounts around from generating 19 leads per month to 95 leads per month in a short period of time! Tip...
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Getting PPC Advice from Yahoo!? Take the Good with the Bad
Reading search marketing blogs is like a box of chocolates – you never know what you’re gonna get. Today I was scrolling through my blog reader quickly reviewing the “big three” blogs. When I got to the YSM Blog, I...
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Your Contact Form Might Be Hurting Your PPC Campaign
Beyond your keywords, ad text, and your landing page, the engine that drives your PPC campaign is your contact form (if you’re generating leads). If your contact form isn’t geared toward your core audience, and if it’s not requesting the...
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Increase Customer Retention with Simple Social Networking
If you’ve sat in a marketing meeting lately you may have heard the ever evolving question of online marketing today, “How can we add social networking to our site?” Google may have mastered a way to do this, and it’s...
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