Our landing page optimization series continues! On Monday, John discussed elements of your landing page design that can enhance user interaction and increase conversions. Yesterday, Amber focused on the using the one-two combo of a simple contact form and a strong call-to-action. Both of these articles emphasize the need to continually test the various elements of your landing … [Read more...] about Using the Same Landing Page In Google and Yahoo May Be Hindering Your Campaign
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Book Give Away Follow Up: Thanks To Everyone!
We'd like to thank everyone who has responded to our book give away. The response was overwhelming! In fact, we gave away all 25 copies of Always Be Testing in about the first 5 hours. So, the kind folks at the Google Website Optimizer Blog kindly increased the number of free books to a total of 50 copies! And they are all gone! Again, we would like to thank Google Website … [Read more...] about Book Give Away Follow Up: Thanks To Everyone!
Discover 5 Landing Page Design Changes that Build Authority and Boost Conversions
Welcome to day 1 of our PPC landing page optimization series. What better way to kick things off than to discuss landing page design and layout? For today's topic, think of a landing page's design and layout as the pieces of bread that keep the juicy calls-to-action, headlines and body content together for your customers to devour (landing page sandwich, yummy). The goal of … [Read more...] about Discover 5 Landing Page Design Changes that Build Authority and Boost Conversions
PPC Hero Interview with Allie Edwards Williams of Zvents
What better way to learn about PPC than to hear about experiences from those "in the trenches?" At least that's how we feel around here at PPC Hero. When my boss (of Hanapin Marketing) Pat East was at SMX Local last month, he found some outspoken PPCer's and convinced them to give us interviews. The following is the result of one of those interviews, and it is full of great … [Read more...] about PPC Hero Interview with Allie Edwards Williams of Zvents
Interview with Elise Richardson from www.MyWebGrocer.com
The following is an interview Pat East, President of Hanapin Marketing conducted with Elise Richardson, who manages search for www.MyWebGrocer.com. The two of them met at the recent SMX summit. Elise has some very interesting insights into how she manages her PPC account. Pat: Can you tell us your name, title, organization, what mywebgrocer does, what you do on a daily … [Read more...] about Interview with Elise Richardson from www.MyWebGrocer.com
PPC News Roundup for August 27, 2008
SEOmoz presents headsmacker tip #6 - Test with Paid Search Before You Target with SEO. This concise post is a nice refresher in the relationship between your PPC and SEO efforts, offering some good tips and insight. We are always interested in the exact relationship between keywords and search results. Darren Slaten posted this interesting experiment over at YOUmoz, in an … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for August 27, 2008
A Poor PPC Account Structure Will Make Your Campaign Suffer
We frequently discuss PPC account structure and with good reason: your account structure can greatly affect the performance of your campaign. Honestly, I believe that account structure is one of the most important (if not the most important) elements of your PPC campaign. Recently, we acquired a new client who had been using another firm to manage their PPC. Our client hired … [Read more...] about A Poor PPC Account Structure Will Make Your Campaign Suffer
How To Grow Your PPC Campaign Organically
PPC management can move at break-neck speed. A PPC campaign can see immediate results, and you can manage your campaign at this rate. This is truly remarkable. Never has a marketing tool of this power been unleashed where you can test your messaging, get real user responses, and adjust accordingly in almost real-time. However, I've learned with some campaigns that I need to … [Read more...] about How To Grow Your PPC Campaign Organically
Post-Click Marketing for PPC Heroes
Welcome to the first in a series of special guest articles that we'll be publishing. This first article was writtne by Scott Brinker. Scott Brinker is a co-founder, president, and chief technology officer of ion interactive, a company that specializes in post-click marketing software and services for marketers and agencies. He blogs regularly at their Post-Click Marketing … [Read more...] about Post-Click Marketing for PPC Heroes
Tell Us Your Best PPC Success Story & Win Great Prizes!
Have a great success story you would like to share with other PPC advertisers? We want to hear it! If your PPC account was once suffering a poor ROI, low click volume or too high a cost-per-lead, etc. but is now performing well, we want to know what you did to get it to perform well and how you did it! We’re collecting entries for the best PPC success story and the winner … [Read more...] about Tell Us Your Best PPC Success Story & Win Great Prizes!
Our Greatest Hits for June!
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero’s four most visited, and hopefully most valuable, articles from June. Whether you’re a new subscriber or a current subscriber you may have missed these insightful and helpful pay-per-click management tips. Enjoy! Getting a little help with your PPC campaign is never a bad thing: we all get by with a little help from … [Read more...] about Our Greatest Hits for June!
PPC News Roundup for June 18, 2008
What's the future of Google Adwords Pay-Per-Action model? According to Search Engine Roundtable who spoke directly with their Google rep, Google doesn't know where they're headed with the PPA model but they're not sending out any invitations to be a part of the beta, "while t he product team figures out what direction the model will take in the future." Interesting… Search … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for June 18, 2008