Today's topic: The Secret. Ok, so I'm not going to start rattling off the hidden truths to eternal happiness. But I may just provide a tiny bit of relief for you and your PPC campaigns! In continuation of our goal to "Revitalize Your PPC Campaign in 5 Days," today I'm going to concentrate on account settings. Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing and MSN adCenter all have … [Read more...] about The Secret to Success May Lie in Your Settings
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Un-Clutter & Optimize Your Account with Better Organization
One of the first steps you should take to Revitalize your PPC Campaign is to review your account structure and organization. Better organization within your PPC account not only means you can manage your campaigns and ad groups easier, but delivering more relevant ads to your customers; If you’re serving highly targeted, relevant ads to your audience, your click-through … [Read more...] about Un-Clutter & Optimize Your Account with Better Organization
Keywords Inactive? They Might Be Ahead of Their Time!
Around our office we've been discussing the definitions for various keyword status' within AdWords. We've deciphered three tiers of keyword status: Active and displaying ads Rejected and not displaying ads Active but not displaying ads The first two are not difficult to understand: either your keyword is approved or it isn't. Very simple. It is the third status that can be … [Read more...] about Keywords Inactive? They Might Be Ahead of Their Time!
Jeremy Mayes, from PPC Discussions has this to say
Jeremy Mayes is a well known blogger in the PPC industry. Today he shares with us his thoughts and opinions on hot topics in the PPC world. Q: Do you foresee any advancements occurring in the next year that will change the way people manage their PPC accounts? A: Yes, over the next 12 months I believe Google will add features that support rule based management of campaigns … [Read more...] about Jeremy Mayes, from PPC Discussions has this to say
How To Dominate The Last 2 Days of the Month
I have a few questions to pose to you: How often do you hit your PPC budget before the end of the month? If so, how far in advance have you hit your budget: a day, perhaps two, maybe three? If this has happened to your campaigns before, wouldn't this happen to other campaigns as well? Perhaps even your competitors' campaigns? These questions lead me to meditate on a new … [Read more...] about How To Dominate The Last 2 Days of the Month
AdWords Top Ad Placement Formula Is Set for a Facelift
Upon logging into my AdWords accounts this morning, I was greeted with an alert: "Coming Soon: Improvement to the Top Ad Placement Formula." Quickly thereafter I found the official FAQ and AdWords Blog announcement to fill in the gaps. The current formula involves Quality Score and your actual CPC. Google feels that this leaves you, the advertiser, without much control over … [Read more...] about AdWords Top Ad Placement Formula Is Set for a Facelift
PPC News Roundup for August 8, 2007
An article by Brad Geddes talks about how to minimize click fraud by blocking low quality traffic. In the article you will learn how to block your ads from showing in certain countries, how to block competitors from clicking on your ads, see which content network sites are sending you traffic, how to keep yourself from showing for keyword searches, how to block content network … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for August 8, 2007
4 Most Important Settings to Check in Your Microsoft adCenter Account
This is the third and final post in my series on important settings to check when setting up accounts in the "big three" PPC search engines. After detailing Google AdWords and Yahoo! Search Marketing, it was time to dive into Microsoft's adCenter. There is a sickness infecting the search marketing community that keeps it from digging deeper into adCenter's house of wares. I … [Read more...] about 4 Most Important Settings to Check in Your Microsoft adCenter Account
PPC News Roundup for August 1, 2007
The AdWords blog announced the introduction of an automated campaign optimizer tool. According to the announcement, the tool is capable of scanning your account and pointing out problems from budgetary concerns, keyword issues (bid, match type, new keywords, etc.) and even potential ad texts. While I would still prefer to do this myself, or have a Google rep. help me out, the … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for August 1, 2007
Top 5 Settings to Check When Starting a Yahoo! Search Marketing Account
Two weeks ago I wrote about the most important settings to check when starting up an AdWords account. This week I'll be detailing some of the ins and outs of the Yahoo! Search Marketing interface (YSM or Panama). I should reiterate that this list isn't intended to be the end-all-be-all for navigating your YSM account, but an informational resource when setting up an account … [Read more...] about Top 5 Settings to Check When Starting a Yahoo! Search Marketing Account
PPC News Roundup for July 19, 2007
An article on adwords unexpected match types talks about how your ads could be coming up for completely irrelevant search terms. The cause of this is Google Adwords broad match, which is now being called by some, Google expanded broad match. They're basically stating that Googles search is too broad, even broader than we originally though. This article helps remind me that I … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for July 19, 2007
A Little AdWords Quality Score Sluething
Bill Slawski over at SEO by the Sea recently unearthed 3 patents filed by Google that map out the methods AdWords uses to determine the quality of an advertisement. As expected, the patents are mind-numbingly dry, but still we found them illuminating since the PPC Hero Team is constantly trying to breakdown the AdWords quality score to the most minute detail. As we are always … [Read more...] about A Little AdWords Quality Score Sluething
