It would be difficult to overstate the importance of a properly structured geotargeting strategy to the success of a good percentage of PPC campaigns. We’ve discussed geotargeting for PPC many times before on the blog, so if you are confused,...
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Best Practices for Multilingual PPC
Launching a multilingual pay-per-click campaign is a good way to quickly have a presence in a country. Many companies do not have the resources and budgets to build multiple versions of their website based on language, but through the wonders...
Positioning Your Business For Success In Local Search
Consumers today not only want to know what’s around them, they want to be able to call with one click, access directions, and know what other people think of it. Due to the fact that 50% of consumers head to...
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Understanding JavaScript and How it Can Affect Your Analytics Tracking
Google Analytics is instrumental in the way we track the success of our PPC campaigns (especially since it’s free), but as robust as it is, there are certain visitors that just can’t be tracked. There are at least 6 types...
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4 Tips For Getting Out Of Your PPC Rut
Anyone who has been working on a PPC account for a while- whether it be your own or a client’s- probably reaches a point of inspiration deficiency. A new PPC account can be like a new toy (if you’re not...
Do Higher Positions in Google Mean You Convert More? Here’s How to Find Out!
Brad Geddes is one of my favorite bloggers, and he has a really interesting link to a YouTube video that talks about how you can get information at the keyword level in Google Analytics that shows what conversion rates you...
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5 PPC Resolutions for 2010
Since we’re only a couple days away from the end of 2009 and many of us are working a short week this week, it seems like a good time to pull out a classic end of year cliche: the Resolution...
A Gazillion Ways to Test Landing Pages to Increase Conversions
We’ve spoken before about using Google website optimizer to test different elements of your landing page to help increase conversion rates. But the other day the team here at Hanapin Marketing came up with a full list of those elements...
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What Keeps Someone From Clicking on Your PPC Ad?
Sure, paid search ad copy contains only 25 characters for the headline (in AdWords) and 70 characters for the body copy, but this small space can be very complex to utilize optimally. Within the confines of a PPC ad text...
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How to Fine Tune Your International Campaigns in AdWords
You always need to exercise caution when utilizing broad match in AdWords. This almost goes without saying, but I said it anyway. The scope of queries matched to each broad match keyword has grown over the past couple of years,...
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5 Tips To Save Money & Generate Additional Revenue with Ad Scheduling
I know that ad scheduling/day parting isn’t new to PPC, but I was recently at a marketing conference where the speaker mentioned he used ad scheduling for nearly every one of his clients. This got me thinking: why I don’t...
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4 Pitfalls of Dynamic Keyword Insertion (DKI)
Dynamic Keyword Insertion (DKI) is an advanced feature in each major search engine that can help you create more relevant ad text by automatically inserting a search query into an ad text. When used correctly, this tool can be very...
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