In searching through our web stats today, the category "Advanced PPC Strategies" ranks as one of the top 10 pieces of content on our blog. All time, it's the 4th most viewed piece. Clearly, you're interested in it! So, we're making one of our next blog post series about just that—Advanced PPC Strategies! Our last two blog post series were extremely well-read—one … [Read more...] about Advanced PPC Strategies: What Do You Want to Read About?
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PPC News Roundup for February 6, 2008
As you may, or may not, know the Google content network is a mysterious beast. It can certainly generate a great wealth of traffic, but that traffic isn't always of the highest quality. However, if you can achieve the right balance of appearing on the content network while maintaining a positive ROI, then you're ahead of the game. I think we do a pretty good job of … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for February 6, 2008
Our Greatest Hits for January!
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero’s four most visited, and hopefully most valuable, articles from January. Whether you’re a new subscriber or a current subscriber you may have missed these insightful and helpful pay-per-click management tips. Enjoy! Learning how to predict when your PPC traffic will drop is a great way to be proactive … [Read more...] about Our Greatest Hits for January!
PPC News Roundup for January 30, 2008
Now you can get simple Google analytics help through WebmasterWorld forums! Search Engine Roundtable posts that an analytics advisor has volunteered to help people out with the Google analytics questions from time to time. Apparently he knows analytics inside and out, and also knows how to listen to users. Andy Komack from KoMarketing Associates has a great post discussing 5 … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for January 30, 2008
PPC News Roundup for January 23, 2008
Seeing higher minimum CPC's lately? That might be because Google Adwords has re-evaluated their Quality Score on Keywords according to PPC Lab. Although it doesn't explicitly say why, google frequently re-evaluates their keyword quality score algo and some underperforming keywords may suffer. Interested in knowing how the 2007 holiday online shopping went? Read Search … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for January 23, 2008
How to Use Analytics and Reports to Get to Know Your Customers Better
We've been walking in searchers' shoes all week, and today is mile 3 of our journey to think and search like our customers! Search marketers have a wide array of tools at their disposal, many of which are powerful assets in understanding search behavior. More specifically, the PPC search engines all offer invaluable reporting features detailing ad and keyword performance, but … [Read more...] about How to Use Analytics and Reports to Get to Know Your Customers Better
Learn How to Think and Search Like Your Customers
Everyday millions of people are searching for answers. This is not in reference to some existential crisis that encompasses the search for the meaning of life. These millions of people are looking for a specific answer to a particular question via search engines. As a search engine marketer you need to make sure that your service/product/information is exactly the answer that … [Read more...] about Learn How to Think and Search Like Your Customers
PPC News Roundup for January 16, 2008
Over at optimizeandprophesize.com, Jonathon Mendez has a list of the top 10 multivariate & A/B testing results from 2007. Most of the A/B split testing goes into detail on landing pages and conversion data. Some tests include a single product converting better over a choice of three, long scroll text and different calls to action on your landing page, which could also be … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for January 16, 2008
Our Favorite PPC Blogs of 2007: Our PPC Hero Allies!
We read many blogs on a multitude topics. However, there are certain blogs to which we pay close attention: other PPC-focused blogs! There are few blogs that frequently publish articles on in-depth PPC management strategy, and industry developments. We view these blogs as our allies in the good fight of better PPC management! We have discovered numerous insights and tips from … [Read more...] about Our Favorite PPC Blogs of 2007: Our PPC Hero Allies!
What We Did to Make it Work: 3 Account Management Achievements in 2007
In the PPC world, you will run into a lot of tips on how to improve or grow your accounts. Something we find is missing are real case studies; Discussing what the problem was, how you found the problem and what you did to fix or improve the account we feel can help new PPC'ers as well as veteran PPC'ers. Below each member of the PPC team has picked and discussed their most … [Read more...] about What We Did to Make it Work: 3 Account Management Achievements in 2007
Increase Your Click-Through Rate with Tasty Promo Offers and Calls-to-Action
Every day this week we are writing about how to improve your PPC account's ad texts! Yesterday we discussed writing benefit driven ads to lure customers to your site. So today, I'm going to take your ad writing skills to the next level by explaining how and why you should include promotional offers and calls-to-action in your ad texts. There are millions of people using … [Read more...] about Increase Your Click-Through Rate with Tasty Promo Offers and Calls-to-Action
What Everyone Ought to Know About Geo-Targeting in Google AdWords and Yahoo! Search Marketing
Last week, Google unveiled updates to the Location Targeting (geo-targeting) function within AdWords. In the wake of this event, I felt that there was no better time than the present to write a 1-2 punch article on geo-targeting. The geo-targeting options in AdWords and Yahoo! Search Marketing (YSM) both have the same end goal: serving location-targeted ads. But to use these … [Read more...] about What Everyone Ought to Know About Geo-Targeting in Google AdWords and Yahoo! Search Marketing
