One of the best aspects of managing a pay-per-click campaign is the completeness of data. It is the only advertising medium that can give you a fairly accurate representation of how many eyeballs see your ad, and it’s the only advertising medium that can regularly associate a user behavior with an advertising placement. But with all of the data that’s available to an account … [Read more...] about Quick Look: Pay-Per-Click Metrics All Campaign Managers Should Understand
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Yahoo’s New Display Advertising – See How It Works
On Monday, Yahoo released their new display advertising for small and large businesses. Yahoo's display advertising program is identical to Google with a few twists. You can target your display ads geographically, demographically, and within specific content network placements. The funny thing about Yahoo's new display advertising is that it's not connected to your Yahoo … [Read more...] about Yahoo’s New Display Advertising – See How It Works
Find Competitor’s Top Performing Keywords & Use Them To Your Advantage
Ever wonder what your competitors' top keywords are? Would you like to know if your competition is down in traffic the same times of year you are? I'm sure you wish you could find out how many unique visitors your top competitors are receiving. With Compete.com you can get all of this information and more. This is not a sponsored post by the way! I knew of Compete.com when … [Read more...] about Find Competitor’s Top Performing Keywords & Use Them To Your Advantage
How to Use Google Wonder Wheel and Related Search Tools for Keyword Research
The fuel that drives every PPC campaign is your keyword list. The success of your campaign will live and die by the keywords that you target. You need to make sure that you are targeting the right keywords and that your keyword list is extensive and robust. And your list of keywords needs to be ever-evolving as new and longer search terms become prevalent among your target … [Read more...] about How to Use Google Wonder Wheel and Related Search Tools for Keyword Research
Use Content Network Stats to Create High-Performing Placement Targeted Campaigns
The Google Content Network can be a great source of ROI, but it can also represent a great risk. The potential for great performance – and the potential for wasted budget – both come as a result of the network’s sheer scope. With such a wide variety of sites available for advertising, marketers can get great reach. But with that reach, of course, comes great potential for … [Read more...] about Use Content Network Stats to Create High-Performing Placement Targeted Campaigns
A New Way to Find & Add Negative Keywords in Adwords
There is a new feature that is somewhat-hidden within the new Google AdWords interface that I want to bring to your attention. Now, you can essentially run a search query report at the ad group level without actually running a full-blown search query report to find additional keywords or negative keywords. Just a refresher for some, negative keywords are keywords you can add … [Read more...] about A New Way to Find & Add Negative Keywords in Adwords
What You Need to Know about Google AdWords’ New Conversion Tracking Metrics
One of the newly visible metrics within the updated Google AdWords interface pertains to conversion tracking. Today, we will explore the difference between the "Conversions (many-per-click)" data and the "Conversions (1-per-click)" data. If you have migrated to the new AdWords interface, you have probably noticed these additional conversion tracking columns within your stats. … [Read more...] about What You Need to Know about Google AdWords’ New Conversion Tracking Metrics
First Glance: How Pay-Per-Click Marketers Should React to Bing
I’m not here to tell you Bing is the greatest thing ever, and I’m not here to tell you that, No, Bing is not a “Google Killer.” Lots of others have already weighed in on the topic and, as a search marketer, that’s not my worry. As a search marketer, I’m only worried about campaign impact. And, as far as I can tell, campaign impact can only happen if people are searching (or is … [Read more...] about First Glance: How Pay-Per-Click Marketers Should React to Bing
Our Greatest Hits for May 2009
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero's four most visited, and hopefully most valuable, articles from May. Whether you're a new or long-time subscriber you may have missed these insightful and helpful pay-per-click management tips. Enjoy! Too busy, overwhelmed, or (gasp) unmotivated to continually manage & improve your PPC accounts to ensure their … [Read more...] about Our Greatest Hits for May 2009
An Easy Way to Increase Your Click-Through Rates, Quality of Traffic and Conversions
What I've always loved about Google AdWords is the extensive amount of information they give you. And something I realized I can do to help improve my overall click-through rate via the content network and doesn't include writing new ads, testing ads, changing keywords or running any search query reports. (Although those are very good ways to increase your click-through … [Read more...] about An Easy Way to Increase Your Click-Through Rates, Quality of Traffic and Conversions
Blog News Roundup for Friday, May 29, 2009
Do you like to party hard on the holidays? If so you don't want to miss this excuse for a party from the YSM Blog. Amongst some of the more well known holidays are a myriad of different celebrations that advertisers may use to focus their search campaigns. Personally, I'm looking forward to Ugly Dog Day at the end of June, but I don't think I have a search campaign that can … [Read more...] about Blog News Roundup for Friday, May 29, 2009
5 Tips that Can Make Your Life Easier When Using Yahoo Search Marketing
There are more than five things you should know about Yahoo's search marketing platform that can make your life easier. However, I have pulled together a short list that will help you manage your account more efficiently and optimize your account wisely. Unfortunately, a number of these items are a result of shortcomings within Yahoo's platform. Let's face it: their interface … [Read more...] about 5 Tips that Can Make Your Life Easier When Using Yahoo Search Marketing
