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! I love log files, analytics, and looking in your own backyard for PPC keyword strategies. I think your own site's … [Read more...] about Discovering Keywords On the Cheap
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Should Small Businesses Really Avoid PPC?
On Monday, Media Post's Search Insider published an article titled, "Small Businesses to PPC Search: Drop Dead." This article takes an interesting tone, one of caveat emptor for small businesses using PPC as a viable marketing option. When I read this article, I envisioned the author holding a massive red stop sign yelling "DON'T DO IT" to any small business owner who … [Read more...] about Should Small Businesses Really Avoid PPC?
PPC News Roundup for December 12th, 2008
The holiday season is quickly approaching. As I am still in Grad School (done in May, whew!), I have the pleasure of taking a two week break to visit my family and vacation. I hope the rest of you enjoy the holidays as well. Here's the roundup for this week. Scott Brinker over at the Post-Click Marketing blog has written a very interesting article on search marketing … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for December 12th, 2008
Vertical PPC Search Engines and User Intent
Here at PPC Hero, we generally talk about the Googles, Yahoos and MSNs of the world. With good reason too, that's where the bulk of traffic is and where you should spend most of your time. However, sometimes it makes sense to break out and try 2nd/3rd tier search engines – or better yet – vertical search engines. It all comes down to search intent. Over the past few years … [Read more...] about Vertical PPC Search Engines and User Intent
Has the Google AdWords Landing Page Quality Score Changed? Find Out!
Whenever we are reading through the dozens upon dozens of blogs that we subscribe to, we are always on the the lookout for anything pertaining to the Google AdWords Quality Score. Anyone who reads PPC Hero can attest to the fact that we love to discuss the AdWords Quality Score. So, whenever we see a post about this topic our interest is automatically piqued! On Tuesday, we … [Read more...] about Has the Google AdWords Landing Page Quality Score Changed? Find Out!
Don’t Forget to Vote Today… For PPC Hero!
With all of the fervor of the political climate today, PPC Hero has gotten caught in the excitement and announced his candidacy for President! Sure, maybe he announced his campaign a little late… on election day! But friends, he’s confident of a big win in the polls. And not only is PPC Hero running for President, but SEO Boy is his running mate, and they created their own … [Read more...] about Don’t Forget to Vote Today… For PPC Hero!
Our Greatest Hits for October!
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero’s four most visited, and hopefully most valuable, articles from October. Whether you’re a new or long-time subscriber you may have missed these insightful and helpful pay-per-click management tips. Enjoy! When inheriting a new account, we sometimes feel like the entire account needs to be re-organized and … [Read more...] about Our Greatest Hits for October!
Watch Out for Yahoo’s Content Network
We've mentioned before that you can't have the "set it and forget it" attitude when it comes to managing PPC accounts. While reviewing my Yahoo! account a few weeks ago, I noticed that we had generated a ton of extra clicks and spend with zero conversions via the content network, which was completely out of the norm. At the time, I went ahead and paused the content network in … [Read more...] about Watch Out for Yahoo’s Content Network
30 Pay-Per-Click Definitions Every Advertiser Should Know: A PPC Terminology Glossary
A few weeks ago I sat in a session at the PPC Summit in Los Angeles. I realized that as the speakers were talking, they were using a lot of industry language that some PPC beginners may not understand. I then got the idea to write up a PPC language reference guide for anyone to use and reference in the future. This post is the first in our PPC Basics Blog Series! Adwords … [Read more...] about 30 Pay-Per-Click Definitions Every Advertiser Should Know: A PPC Terminology Glossary
Yahoo! Improves Content Match and Assumes Our Performance Will Improve Too
One thing is certain, when Yahoo! launched the new Search Marketing platform (aka "Panama"), it signaled the death of Content Match. At least as I knew it. Before the upgrade, I generated pretty substantial results (in terms of traffic/conversions generated). After the upgrade, the big CM went belly up. So, it's with a grain of salt that I take in Yahoo!'s optimistic … [Read more...] about Yahoo! Improves Content Match and Assumes Our Performance Will Improve Too
Using Dynamic Keyword Insertion Properly Is An Art Form
Each of the major search engines offers an ad text tool called "dynamic keyword insertion." Keyword insertion is an advanced feature that helps you create more relevant ad texts by automatically inserting a user's search query term into your ad. This tool can be extremely helpful when used properly. However, there is an art form to using dynamic keyword insertion successfully … [Read more...] about Using Dynamic Keyword Insertion Properly Is An Art Form
Don’t make this mistake! How your landing page headline may be driving customers away.
As part of our 5 day series on landing page conversion tips I'd like to go into your landing page headlines specifically. Headlines are (or should be) the first thing the user sees when they arrive at your landing page. Too many times I've seen poorly written headlines that give no solution, benefit, or reason to why the user should read on, let alone fill out a contact form. … [Read more...] about Don’t make this mistake! How your landing page headline may be driving customers away.
