Network Solutions and Ingenio, Inc. present a unique advertising method called Pay-Per-Call which will be launched at the end of the month. It allows Network Solutions customers to create a text ad, place a cost-per-call bid, and those ads will be advertised to consumers who are searching for local businesses and wish to interact with a live person. This article from Search … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for September 27, 2007
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Dissecting a Taboo: Phone Numbers in PPC Ads
Creating relevant and effective ad text is one of the most difficult, yet influential things you must do as a PPC advertiser. Within this daily management duty are a myriad of sub-tasks or "flavors" that can affect the outcome of your click-through-rates and conversion rates. Along with this wide world of ad text possibility also comes a flurry of disagreement on tactics. Today … [Read more...] about Dissecting a Taboo: Phone Numbers in PPC Ads
PPC News Roundup for September 19, 2007
John W Ellis discusses how you can reverse engineer your marketing message development. Instead of developing a new brand/product message, and then inserting it into your PPC campaign; you should test your possible messages within your PPC campaign and let your audience decide which one appeals to them most. Then take this data apply it to your SEM/SEO and offline marketing … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for September 19, 2007
PPC News Roundup for September 12, 2007
Tiz the Season to Optimize for the Holidays is a great post listing seven ways you can increase traffic and conversions just by focusing on Holiday themes. A few examples are to call out gift card sales and gifts under $25 in your ad text. It also says to decorate your landing pages for a holiday theme. Check keyword research tools for past search terms; these can go back as … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for September 12, 2007
Revitalize Your PPC Campaign in 5 Days!
There comes a time while managing a pay-per-click campaign when you feel as though you've done everything. Yet somehow your performance plateaus or worse, begins to trail off. What do you do in this situation? What can be done to thwart this impending disaster? PPC Hero has the answers! Each day this week we will focus on a different technique that will provide new ideas … [Read more...] about Revitalize Your PPC Campaign in 5 Days!
PPC News Roundup for September 6, 2007
Apparently George Kepnick from Pay-Per-Click Blog.com hates ask.com and finds the traffic "worthless". George writes an interesting blog on his email to ask.com basically demanding a refund for the irrelevant traffic that blew through his budget in a matter of hours. He has the links to prove it! Need serious help writing ad copy? Forget the Google Adwords ad text ideas tool … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for September 6, 2007
PPC News Roundup for August 29, 2007
On Search Engine Roundtable some posts in a forum a question on whether to allow costs of products and/or services in your ad text to qualify traffic? I think it's a great question and as stated in the post, many people believe it is not best practice to do this, because you could be weeding out potentially good traffic, but I believe it would help a client if they had a … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for August 29, 2007
PPC News Roundup for August 24, 2007
The content network in Google Adwords is still a mystery for a lot of PPC experts. Seoptimize has written a nice post on 5 common mistakes most people make when it comes to using Adwords content network. However I find it's easy to get confused by reading this post. The first 3 are actual mistakes one can make, the last 2 are definitely "Do's" regarding the use of the content … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for August 24, 2007
PPC News Roundup for August 17, 2007
Fitting a clear, concise message within the allotted 70 characters of a PPC advertisement is always challenge. However, the AdCenter blog has posted some very helpful information on ad composition. Be specific, direct and professional are just a tips they give, and I agree. They also discuss how you can exclude your ad from users by clearly stating who you want to click on your … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for August 17, 2007
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
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
Get Your PPC Questions Answered By a Googler, In Person!
At the end of August, our company's dedicated Google AdWords representatives will be paying us a visit. We will have several hours of uninterrupted face-time with these fine folks to learn as much as we can about AdWords. Naturally, we have a lengthy laundry list of questions just waiting for this opportunity. But before we finalize this list, we wanted to give all of our … [Read more...] about Get Your PPC Questions Answered By a Googler, In Person!