Early last week, Google released a whitepaper titled, "CPA Performance Trends on the Google Content Network". This whitepaper was based on data pulled from nearly 25,000 AdWords accounts around the world from a 12 month period ending November 2008. That's a pretty hefty sum of data! The purpose of the research? To answer advertiser-based questions on conversion rates and … [Read more...] about Highlights From Google’s Content Network CPA Whitepaper
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Ad Text Testing – a PPC Manager’s Constant Friend and Companion
When everything else in the PPC world has gone away, ad text testing will still remain standing. OK, maybe that's a bit grandiose. What I'm getting at is pay-per-click advertising is awash with bells and whistles, hoosits and whatsits (galore) and a million other ways to become distracted from those tools and tasks that provide the strongest return-on-time investment. Ad … [Read more...] about Ad Text Testing – a PPC Manager’s Constant Friend and Companion
How Can You Save Time and Money When Managing PPC? Use Ad Scheduling in AdWords!
Ad Scheduling within Google AdWords allows PPC managers to control the days and times their ads appear. As the final installment of our time saving blog series, today we will discuss how you can save time and money by utilizing this helpful AdWords tool. Utilizing your AdWords reports and your Analytics program, you may be able to determine when your ads perform best on … [Read more...] about How Can You Save Time and Money When Managing PPC? Use Ad Scheduling in AdWords!
Let’s Take another Look at URL Tagging and Tracking PPC Campaigns via Google Analytics
The more we write here at PPC Hero, the more we learn about pay-per-click in general and the needs and wants of our readers. Of all the topics we've touched on over the past few years, the one that has remained most popular is the process for tracking PPC campaigns via Google Analytics. Previously we've written on how to properly tag your destination URLs for Yahoo! Search … [Read more...] about Let’s Take another Look at URL Tagging and Tracking PPC Campaigns via Google Analytics
Google Quality Score Is Overhyped
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! There. I said it. Google Quality Score is overhyped. Too many people get scared by this nebulous thing called a … [Read more...] about Google Quality Score Is Overhyped
Our Greatest Hits for December!
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero’s four most visited, and hopefully most valuable, articles from December. Whether you’re a new or long-time subscriber you may have missed these insightful and helpful pay-per-click management tips. Enjoy! It’s been an on-going question since the Google Quality Score took place: Do conversion rates effect your … [Read more...] about Our Greatest Hits for December!
Our Top 10 Blog Posts for 2008!
2008 was a great year for PPC Hero! We continued to fight for truth, justice, higher click-through rates, lower cost-per-clicks, enhanced conversion rates, better quality scores, and the American way. In 2008, I think PPC Hero definitely leaped a few buildings in a single bound as well as outran some speeding trains (IMO). I'd like to highlight some of our accomplishments by … [Read more...] about Our Top 10 Blog Posts for 2008!
Interview with Tim Ash – Author of Landing Page Optimization
Think you know how to test landing pages? Put your knowledge to the test and see if you're on the right track with Tim Ash, author of Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions, and President of Sitetuners.com. Tim is an entrepreneur, internet marketing leader and co-founder of several internet related start-ups. Currently Tim is the … [Read more...] about Interview with Tim Ash – Author of Landing Page Optimization
Improve Your Content Network Campaigns with Demographic Bidding in Google
Demographic targeting is a relatively new feature for Google. It's the process of targeting your PPC ads and keywords to a specific age range and gender type. The purpose of demographic targeting is to really drill down on your target audience by writing extremely specific ads to a very specific audience, which in theory will help qualify your traffic and ultimately increase … [Read more...] about Improve Your Content Network Campaigns with Demographic Bidding in Google
PPC News Roundup For November 21st, 2008
Google has created a US search based keyword tool. Over at search engine round table they have posted a screen shot and the new features which includes keywords that you may not be advertising on that would possibly bring in a good ROI. Search Engine Land write that Microsoft says it's open to search-only deal with Yahoo!. The deal would consist of Yahoo outsourcing search … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup For November 21st, 2008
How to Analyze the Most Important PPC Reports
Of all the reasons to love pay-per-click advertising, the reporting capabilities have to be number one! All of the major (and minor) PPC search engines offer reporting so that you can make smart, informed decisions about your advertising. That being said, reports are only capable of providing the best data when they're analyzed correctly. So, today's PPC Basics lesson is … [Read more...] about How to Analyze the Most Important PPC Reports
Rookie or Veteran – PPC Basics Every Advertiser Should Know and Use
Get your pencils, paper and book bags ready, we're getting back to PPC basics with our week-long blog series. We get so consumed with writing about advanced PPC topics that we forget there are numerous beginner PPC advertisers out there. So, whether you're are a beginner PPC'er who hasn't started your campaigns yet or perhaps you have a Google Adwords, Yahoo! or MSN account up … [Read more...] about Rookie or Veteran – PPC Basics Every Advertiser Should Know and Use
