PPC Hero is showing his patriotic spirit, and got all decked out for the parade, so keep your eye out for him marching in your local 4th of July celebration. Enjoy your delicious B-B-Q food, and remember safety first when...
Google Website & Conversion Optimizers & More!
If you’ve read the Google blog recently you’ll see that there are quite a few new tools being introduced to help us do our jobs better, and work more efficiently. So how can you tell which tools will help the...
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Top 10 Tactics To Help When You Are Projected To Be Over Budget
Working with an unlimited budget would be wonderful, but since that isn’t the case for anyone I know, I thought I’d share 10 things that we look at when an account is projected to be over budget at the end...
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Combining Yahoo Interface Reports with the Desktop Tool for Bid Adjustments
The Issue: The keyword report from the interface gives you the average CPC, not your max CPC, and the desktop tool doesn’t show you the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that you will want to see to base your decisions on,...
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Using Search Funnels to Grow Your Adwords Account
What is the new search funnels feature? Search Funnels are a set of reports in Adwords that allow you to analyze ad impression and click behavior for campaigns, ad groups and keywords. So why is this important for advertisers? Adwords...
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Landing Page Survey – Win a $50 Amazon Gift Card!
We need your help! Landing pages are obviously an integral part of PPC campaigns, and we’re conducting a survey about landing pages to better understand how businesses utilize them. This short survey (15 questions; 5 minutes) will provide us with...
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Tracking Revenue and Cost In Adwords
Conversion Tracking in Google Adwords Google’s conversion tracking in Adwords allows you to take your account to the next level by providing you with ROI data that can help you more accurately identify both areas of success and opportunities. The...
Using URL Tracking Parameters To Get More Out Of Analytics
One of the challenges of working in an agency environment is that, while it helps get the work done, multiple people touch an account, and you run the risk of creating inconsistencies. When you need to know that your data...
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Including Image Ads In Your Marketing Mix
As online marketing grows, it’s becoming imperative that we as advertisers find ways to set ourselves apart from the competition. We’ve written many posts in the past about the importance of ad text testing, so below you will find a...
PPC News Roundup for 3/19/2010
Getting searchers to click on your ad is really only half the battle, because you don’t want to lose them as soon as they reach your landing page. This post from Search Engine Land shows how you can use Google...
Make Mobile Marketing Work For You
With the growth of mobile use, it’s no wonder mobile advertising is on the rise. According to Wikipedia, mobile advertising only constitutes “around 1% of global advertising spend”, but considering the fact that “mobile phones outnumber TV sets by over...
PPC News Roundup for 2/26/2010
Long or short? Keyword versus key phrase? What is the best targeting strategy for your pay per click campaign? Here is a great post from Search Engine Land that dives into some performance data behind both short and long tail...