This week we are featuring guest articles from our PPC Hero allies! We requested submissions from our readers and we received excellent responses from some great PPC bloggers! The PPC Hero team will return to our regularly scheduled articles next week. Enjoy! Mom and Pop businesses are usually localized to small geographic area and have tiny operating budgets. Local marketing … [Read more...] about How and When Mom and Pop Businesses Should Use PPC
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PPC News Roundup for October 24th, 2008
We start off today's roundup with reports! Thrilling! In all seriousness, Google Analytics is adding some new features that will make it even more useful, including custom reports, integration with AdSense, Motion Charts, and more. Plus, they have some videos that offer more insight into how everything will work. Speaking of reports, AdWords isn't slacking either. Google … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for October 24th, 2008
A Beginners Checklist for Writing Benefit-Focused Ad Texts
Continuing our series on PPC basics, we now find ourselves at a monumental juncture in our PPC adventures. That might be an over exaggeration, but ad texts can really drive home clicks and conversions for your campaigns. In order to write the best ads possible, you need to write benefit-focused ad texts. Simply put, ads that are benefit-focused do exactly what the name implies … [Read more...] about A Beginners Checklist for Writing Benefit-Focused Ad Texts
A 400% Increase In Conversion Rate? Yep, It’s Possible!
The PPC Hero team launched our Landing Page Critique Podcast Series in July. We have reviewed a handful of landing pages/websites in order to help readers generate more conversions and revenue. We received an update from one of our landing page critique subjects and thought we'd share their results with everyone. In August, the PPC Hero Team reviewed the landing for Video Game … [Read more...] about A 400% Increase In Conversion Rate? Yep, It’s Possible!
Want A Free Pass to Pay Per Click Summit?
Think you have the best search marketing strategy? PPC Summit is calling all Internet marketers to submit your proven technique or strategy that helped increase your conversions. Winner gets a FREE PASS to PPC Summit. Take note: the deadline is May 12th! Just answer these two questions to enter: Question #1: What Increased Your Search Marketing ROI Last Year? Question #2: … [Read more...] about Want A Free Pass to Pay Per Click Summit?
Learn the Basics of Testing Ad Copy: A PPC Primer
One of the best features of pay-per-click advertising is the ability to test. There are numerous tools and options in AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing and adCenter that allow PPC advertisers to test nearly every piece of their account. But, admittedly, this barrage of bells and whistles could make the average-Joe-PPC-beginner go crazy - or worse yet, abandon PPC altogether! I … [Read more...] about Learn the Basics of Testing Ad Copy: A PPC Primer
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
Yahoo! Search Marketing, Conversion Counter and Chicken Little – Oh My!
"The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" This could have, perhaps should have been the title of this blog post. Last week, the YSM Blog discussed their Conversion Only Analytics and the inclusion of their new Assists metric. At the end of the blog post, the writer reminded us all to switch our conversion tracking codes over to take full advantage of Yahoo!'s new analytics … [Read more...] about Yahoo! Search Marketing, Conversion Counter and Chicken Little – Oh My!
