We all hit a point in PPC management where we ask ourselves, what’s next? Your campaign structure is sound, you’ve got some reliable ad copy, your campaign settings are just right, you’ve tested and retested your ad positions to find...
Display Network Strategy: A Three Part Approach
In the final topic for our series on how to succeed on the display network, I’ll be discussing display network strategy. I’ll break strategy down into three parts: Goals – What you intend to accomplish with your display campaign. Channels...
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My #1 Tip for Google Display Network: Scale Your Campaigns
Often times I find that people treat the display network as secondary to search. I’ll admit, it’s not always the first thought that comes into my mind when I start thinking about how I’m going to tackle a new account....
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How To Expand An Account From Exact Match to Broad Match
Let me preface this post by stating clearly: this is not the best way to work all accounts. With that said, I can think of a few scenarios where it is worth a shot as there are many pros to...
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Google Banned Keywords | hCG Being Added
One of our clients here at Hanapin is in the hCG diet space, which is a very exciting, fast paced, and competitive vertical in the PPC world. From an agency standpoint, it’s a great account to work on because accounts...
Who Does PPC Hero Follow?
As Pat mentioned in his Letter From the CEO, we wanted to take an opportunity to let you know who we, at PPC Hero, follow on Twitter or through blogs. Regardless of your experience level, someone out there is always...
Case Study: Bid Changes
As a PPC account manager, I have the pleasure of new and exciting challenges with each new client I take on. Recently, I took on a client that was the pace setter for their PPC industry. What I mean by...
Account Level Quality Score: What about it?
I recently had a situation arise that made me take a look at quality score beyond the keyword level. I needed to understand what changes at different levels could actually do to affect the performance of my account as a...
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Low Cost PPC Traffic Driving (without using Google and MSN)
I recently took on a few traffic-driving projects with, what appeared to be, lofty goals. The objective of these campaigns was to drive qualified traffic to a specific landing page. We had high click goals and a small timeframe to...
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PPC News Roundup for November 12, 2010
On September 8, 2010 Google caused an uproar in the PPC community with the release of Google Instant. Would fewer long-tail words be seen? Would broad terms become more effective then exact terms? Well it’s been 2 months and PeterD...
PPC News Roundup for November 5, 2010
Have you ever clicked on a PPC ad that was exactly what you were looking for only to be taken to a webpage so full of clutter that you couldn’t find the information the ad promised? This is a common...
PPC News Roundup for October 29, 2010
Black Friday in July? Target and WAL-MART led the way a few months ago with a trend that’s popped up, in light of the current economy of course. Geoffrey Shenk with Search Engine Land says if you think it’s too...
