Typically pay-per-click managers who promote a nationally available product or service only run a nationally-targeted campaign. But they are missing a huge opportunity to serve relevant ads for local search queries. With increasing competition in the SEM industry, advertisers are looking for more ways to optimize their campaign. By implementing geo-targeting for a National … [Read more...] about How To Geo-Target a National PPC Campaign
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PPC News Roundup for Friday 8/14/2009
Holy cow that is cool! Google is testing the use of images in PPC advertisements! There's no description but who needs one when there is a picture? The only information present is the picture, price, brand and link. Very cool for click-through rates. A study over at Bing.com says they're seeing a 23% increase in ROI in Bing.com over Live search. They claim that Bing's user … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for Friday 8/14/2009
Utilize Category Exclusions to Enhance Your Content Network Performance
Refining your performance on the AdWords Content Network requires diligence and a varied approach. We have written previously on excluding specific sites on the Content Network, as well as restructuring your campaign to gain additional exposure. Now I'd like to discuss how you can further optimize your performance by excluding entire categories from your distribution. Within … [Read more...] about Utilize Category Exclusions to Enhance Your Content Network Performance
PPC News Roundup for Friday 8/7/2009
Search Engine Journal posted some screenshots indicating that Google is testing their results layout. The post, Sponsored Ads Get Closer to Organic Result in SERPs, shows screenshots of the paid results pushed a little to the left. Interested in more details on the Yahoo-Microsoft agreement? Search Engine Land's post "Micro-Hoo: The Details Emerge With SEC Filing" highlights … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for Friday 8/7/2009
How Business.com Can Help You Reach Your Lead Goals
With all the talk about Google, Yahoo and MSN all the time, the little guys tend to get left out. By little guys, I mean second tier search engines like business.com, 7search.com, ask.com etc. I’m currently using Business.com for one of my clients and I’m getting decent results. It’s important for PPC advertisers to realize there is more to this world other than Google, … [Read more...] about How Business.com Can Help You Reach Your Lead Goals
Our Greatest Hits for July 2009
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero's four most visited, and hopefully most valuable, articles from July. Whether you're a new or long-time subscriber you may have missed these insightful and helpful pay-per-click management tips. Enjoy! Coming in at the #1 spot is Amber's post listing 10 easy ways to optimize your PPC landing pages and increase your … [Read more...] about Our Greatest Hits for July 2009
5 PPC Tasks to Start Your Month off Right!
As I'm sure you are aware, it's a new month! Now is the time to kick off your PPC campaigns with a bang. There are a few tasks that you can accomplish quickly in the next day or two that will help improve your performance for the rest for the month. When optimizing your PPC campaigns, you should always make positive changes all month long. However, you should front-load as … [Read more...] about 5 PPC Tasks to Start Your Month off Right!
PPC News Roundup for Friday 7/31/2009
Confused by the overwhelming amount of information on the Yahoo/Microsoft agreement? Danny Sullivan over at Search Engine Land breaks it down with The Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal, In Simple Terms. It's a fairly long post, but some good information nonetheless. Matt Cutts has a neat little poll going on Who Came out ahead in the Microsoft-Yahoo deal? With over 1,300 votes, 80% … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for Friday 7/31/2009
10 Questions You Should Ask a Potential New PPC Management Firm
You’ve either been trying to manage your company's PPC account on your own, or you have hired a general marketing person to manage the PPC account internally. Regardless, you know that more could be done to get more bank for your buck. How do you know when it’s time to hire a PPC management firm? You know more could be done. You have 50 keywords in your entire account. You … [Read more...] about 10 Questions You Should Ask a Potential New PPC Management Firm
How Foundation PPC Ad Texts Can Help Mitigate Quality Score Shock
Lately I've been discussing how global changes to your PPC account can affect your overall performance. In a nutshell, making big changes all at once can have big consequences (good and bad). Today, we'll explore a strategy that will help maintain your performance and mitigate Quality Score shock to your campaigns when making global ad text overhauls. In a recent post I … [Read more...] about How Foundation PPC Ad Texts Can Help Mitigate Quality Score Shock
PPC News Roundup for Friday 7/24/2009
The Yahoo Search Marketing blog wants you to get ready for the back-to-school season. One tip on getting prepared is to focus your keywords on your searchers, not the buyers. What??? Yes, they say that the kids are the ones typing in 'clothes for kids' or 'pc laptops', then they ask for the parents to go online and buy them. Another tip is to go for the long tail and write … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for Friday 7/24/2009
PPC News Roundup for Friday 7/17/2009
Wonder how much you should bid on that new keyword? Over at the Yahoo search marketing blog they'll tell you which numbers actually matter when determining your keyword bid. They go into cost-per-lead, return on advertising spend and profit. Brad Geddes talks about the new Google trademark policy and find Google is actually following their own rules. Brad goes over the new … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for Friday 7/17/2009
