This month Andrew Lolk of White Shark Media joins PPC Hero as a guest blogger to discuss his personal tips for optimizing a PPC account within the first month. ————————————————– In this three-part series I will outline the routine we...
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The Seven Best PPC Learnings from January 2013
To wrap up January, we wanted to look back at what happened this month and the best things that came out of it. After polling the office, here’s what the staff of PPC Hero considered their best lessons from the...
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How Ad Rotation Settings (Almost) Ruined My Year
Lots of crazy stuff has happened in PPC during 2012. Even though that’s been true pretty much every year since its launch, we at PPC Hero felt that it was a big enough year to justify its very own series. ...
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7 Ways To Keep Your PPC Account Structure Manageable
I came across an account a few months ago so large and unwieldy that the thought of optimizing it made my eyes water. What was so wrong with the account structure you ask? Nothing! By my own admission it was...
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How To Fix Your PPC Lead Quality When It Tanks
It’s a PPC manager’s worst nightmare – you hear from your sales team that suddenly the leads you are sending them are no good – An unexpected decline in lead quality that can affect any account. The question is, what...
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PPC Myth Busting! Myth 7: Tablet Performs Like Desktop
So, we hear people talk about mobile all the time. I mean, ALL THE TIME. But we always hear that tablet can just be left in with desktop. Poor little tablet. He feels so left out. Cheer up, little guy,...
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Doubling Leads Through the Magic of Best Practices
You ever meet someone with seriously funky breath? The kind of person that makes you turn your head whenever they talk to you so you can pretend you’re looking at something to avoid the direct path of their funkiness? I...
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When/Why You Should Use Google AdWords’ MCC
Today, Google announced that automated rules are now available for use across multiple client accounts in AdWords’ My Client Center (MCC). We here at Hanapin Marketing use an MCC to manage multiple accounts, and I’m sure plenty of you out...
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Ad Extensions in 5 Days Series: Location Extensions
So far in this series, you’ve learned how to take advantage of sitelinks, call and product extensions to increase the performance of your AdWords accounts. In today’s fourth installment to the series, I’ll show you how location extensions can contribute...
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Fully Utilize All AdWords’ Ad Extensions In Just 5 Days!
Once upon a time, when ad extensions were first gaining popularity, PPC Hero posted a blog covering the basics of each. You may remember that ad extensions are predominantly used as a tool to increase CTR and that could lead...
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Have Yourself A Merry Little Account Structure
Happy almost-holiday season, PPC Hero’s! For our second installment in the Jingle Your Bells All The Way To The Bank holiday PPC management series, I’m going to take you to the next step in your planning: account structure. Yesterday, Sarah...
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Google AdWords Conversion Tracking Data Explained
As most of us are steeped in conversion tracking, either in the form of leads or ecommerce revenue, I thought it would be worth the time to take a look at the various types of data available in AdWords for...
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