Welcome to day 1 of our PPC landing page optimization series. What better way to kick things off than to discuss landing page design and layout? For today’s topic, think of a landing page’s design and layout as the pieces...
Continue Reading Discover 5 Landing Page Design Changes that Build Authority and Boost Conversions
There’s nothing worse than realizing you’re sick. The same goes for that brick in your stomach after discovering your landing page conversion rates have plummeted. Either way, you have a job to do. Seek out a cure, a PPC panacea,...
Continue Reading Conversion Rates Have You Down? Our 5 Day Landing Page Series is the Cure
What better way to learn about PPC than to hear about experiences from those “in the trenches?” At least that’s how we feel around here at PPC Hero. When my boss (of Hanapin Marketing) Pat East was at SMX Local...
Continue Reading PPC Hero Interview with Allie Edwards Williams of Zvents
You learn something new every day. Period. Yes, it’s cliche. Yes, it makes me sound like my mother. But surprise, surprise, it’s true! As my headline suggests, this is a cautionary tale about the “bad things” that can happen when...
Continue Reading Destination URLs, Tracking Parameters and 301 Redirects – A Cautionary Tale
Late last week, Google announced another round of changes for their Quality Score system. Be prepared to say goodbye to “inactive for search” and “minimum bids” with this update. According to Google, the end goal of this change is to...
One thing that we can all agree upon is that landing pages are an integral part of managing effective pay-per-click accounts. Where that agreement begins to falter is when we begin discussing how individual elements of our landing pages contribute...
Continue Reading Tell Us What Landing Page Changes Drive the Most Conversions For You
The elusive PPC Hero has been spotted in several places around the blogosphere here lately. Suprisingly, he always dons a different disguise, looking eerily like Joe, Amber or myself. Odd… Regardless, the content is still great and is chocked full...
Continue Reading PPC Hero Sightings Around the Blogosphere: Check Out Our Recent Guest Appearances
Last week, Google announced their new Insights for Search tool. Since the announcement, every major search marketing blog has been able to rave, rant or otherwise discuss this interesting new market research device. For my “Insights Expose” I’d like to...
Continue Reading How to Use Google’s Insights for Search to Improve Your PPC Management
Over the last few weeks, we have been conducting the PPC Industry Survey in an effort to learn more about our core readership. We’ve had a great turnout so far, but we know there are several of you who haven’t...
Continue Reading Have You Taken the PPC Industry Survey Yet? This is Your Last Chance!
Welcome to day 2 of our up close and personal examination of Google’s Quality Score. Yesterday I wrote on the two fundamental formulas used to calculate Quality Score for Minimum Bids and Ad Position. However, those 2 formulas don’t give...
Today begins PPC Hero’s newest journey into the belly of the PPC beast: Google AdWords Quality Score. This week, we are going to take a much more granular, advanced look at Quality Score. First up? Formulas, of course! Google maintains...
As part of the Google AdWords upgrade that brought us the new Content Network and Placement Targeting features, Google has gone and pulled a fast one on us. Within the new tabs, Google is removing your Content Network average position...
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