Let’s face it – managing a PPC account doesn't happen in a vacuum. It's about you vs. your competitors.
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The Real Impact of AdWords Close Variant Changes
A look at data from existing accounts on how close variants affect performance. Check out the findings for eCommerce and lead gen performance on PPC Hero.
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Everything You Need To Know About PPC Ad Extensions
Search ads are no longer just about headlines, description lines and display URLs. Ad Extensions now also play a huge part in the appearance and success of our ads. Take a look at this ad from Walmart I saw the...
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Stop Your Google Display Campaigns Going Off The Rails
This week our blog series is taking a look at the most expensive “set it and forget it” mistakes. To open up I’m going to focus on some common problems I see sneak into Display campaigns that aren’t regularly maintained. I’ll also show...
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Optimize PPC Conversion Rates Without Touching a Landing Page
We love to talk about Conversion Rate at PPC Hero. Our job doesn’t stop with acquiring traffic; we have to make sure that traffic ends up doing something of value – otherwise we’ve wasted our money. That part, however, isn’t...
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Why You’re Looking at CTR All Wrong
A good click-through rate is one of the most fundamentally important parts of any paid search account. It’s the primary metric Google uses to judge us, determine our quality scores and set our cost-per-click (CPC) in the auction. However, loads...
See the Future of Your Bids With AdWords’ New Bid Simulator Columns
Earlier last week AdWords announced on Google+ that they had launched a shiny set of new columns for our keyword report tabs. These columns are designed to give us quick access to the bid simulator data that was previously only...
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Do Long-Tail Keywords Matter in PPC?
One of the trickiest decisions in building out new campaigns in your account is how in depth you need to get with your keyword build out. On the one hand, building out every conceivable search term into its own exact...
How To Succeed In PPC Without Conversion Tracking
One of my biggest frustrations with PPC has always been in dealing with accounts where conversion tracking wasn’t straightforward. PPC with conversion tracking is elegant, simple and logical. You work out which keywords are driving sales at low costs and...
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PPC Hero Reviews Wordstream’s AdWords Grader Plus
Earlier this week our friends over at Wordstream launched their new and updated AdWords Grader Plus and we thought we’d take a look at what’s changed. For those of you interested in our previous thoughts on the grader Eric wrote a...
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What Makes A Great PPC Bidding Strategy?
While ads have continued to evolve this year with new extensions and formats, bids have been the portion of this holy trinity of PPC that have changed the most over the past 12 months. Today we're going to recap exactly...
6 Exciting Changes Coming To Google & PPC In 2014
Thanks to the fun of Enhanced Campaigns, 2013 was an extremely interesting year for PPC. Google made a ton of changes that we all had to learn to adapt to. Looking ahead to 2014 don’t expect anything as radical again,...
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