Shimon Sandler from shimonsandler.com gives 8 methods for tracking phone conversions through search advertising. A few methods include: Creating a unique landing page with a unique 800# and to generate a unique “promo code” by placing all your keywords in...
Adwords Automated Matching Beta: Another Ploy to Get Our Money?
In February Dan from Seofaststart.com wrote on the new Google Adwords Automatic Matching feature that is now in beta. While Dan firmly disapproves of this new feature, I find it difficult to form an opinion until I try it for...
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Our Greatest Hits for February!
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero’s four most visited, and hopefully most valuable, articles from February. Whether you’re a new subscriber or a current subscriber you may have missed these insightful and helpful pay-per-click management...
Selling PPC Services: How to Present PPC to C-Level Executives
Today’s article is the last in our Advanced PPC Strategies series. We’ll be taking a slightly different turn, as today we will not be talking management strategy, but we will focus on how to present your pay-per-click services to C-level...
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Dynamic Landing Page Content: How to Increase Conversions through Increased Relevancy
All week we’ve been writing on Advanced PPC Strategies. So far we’ve covered everything from trademark policies and international PPC to special B2B considerations. My charge today is to explain how you can increase conversion rates and overall relevancy with...
Minimum Bid Prices Changing in Yahoo!
Today Yahoo Search Marketing announced that your minimum pay-per-click bids are going to be changing. Currently, the minimum bid is $0.10 (ten cents) across the board for every keyword. However, the announcement made today states that minimum bids will no...
International PPC Campaigns: How to Target Outside the US With Success
Today is the third day in our week long series on advanced PPC strategies. According to a Search Marketing Now webinar, 75% of the world’s searches are performed outside of North America. That’s a large number, which tells me there...
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PPC for B2B: Real World Recommendations You Can Use
Today is part 2 of our week long series on Advanced PPC Strategies. When I solicited for feedback a few weeks ago, one of the best comments I received was a request for tips on managing PPC for business-to-business (B2B)...
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PPC, Trademark Laws, and Copyright Laws: How to Play Fair and Still Win
This week we are exploring advanced PPC strategies, and bidding on branded keywords is a regularly debated tatic. According to a study conducted by Hitwise, one in seven brand searches do not end up at the searched-for brand’s website. This...
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Advanced PPC Strategies: With Great Knowledge Comes Great PPC Performance
Recently, we asked our readers what topics they would like to see covered when it comes to advanced pay-per-click management strategies. There were several good suggestions, and this week we’re going to discuss some of the topics our readers are...
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Can’t get enough of that hunky PPC Hero? Or that wily SEO Boy? Or that gorgeous Miss Clicks? Or that shady ROI Bandit? Well, now you can! We have created a PPC Hero Illustration Archive over at Flickr. Now you...
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PPC News Roundup for February 20, 2008
The YSM blog suggests three questions to ask about your clicks when you see an unexpected surge in traffic: Have you changed anything recently? Have you noticed abnormal click activity (by reviewing logs, etc.)? Have you set a daily spending...
