The holidays are rapidly approaching, starting with the one-two punch of Black Friday and Cyber Monday in a mere two weeks. I hope you’re ready, because every single ecommerce site in the world certainly is. So what can you do...
Keyword Research
The Danger of Having Narrow Keyword Themes
Oh the sweet old days. We all remember, or most of us have been told about, the tales of greatness from using very specific keywords and how it allowed for extraordinary profits. But where did these days go and what...
Who Are The Others? Google’s Frustrating Search Term Report
Do you ever feel like Google aren't telling you everything? Much like Jack Shephard in ABC’s hit TV show Lost, PPC folk have to spend a lot of time wondering about ‘the others’.
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Predictive Keyword Research for PPC
I just watched a fascinating video by Rand Fishkin on predicting keyword volume. It’s geared to his neck of the woods (SEO) but was important and insightful enough that I wanted to shed some additional thoughts on predictive keyword research...
Top 10 PPC Keyword Qualifiers in July (plus how to increase sales by finding your best qualifiers)
Today I did an analysis of the top qualifiers for three of my accounts. We’re doing some PPC keyword research and I wanted to make sure we made the most of our time so the goal was to identify themes...
Holiday PPC Management Series Wrap-Up
We hope you found this week’s holiday PPC series, Jingle Your Bells All The Way To The Bank, to be helpful! To recap, we covered holiday keyword research, account structure, getting your holiday ads to show and optimizing your landing...
Rockin’ Around the Holiday Keyword Research Tree
As Kayla mentioned in her introductory post on Friday, this week we’ll be giving you one post a day about ramping your e-commerce PPC acc0unt for the upcoming holiday shopping season. Today I’ll be giving you some tips on doing...
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Jingle Your Bells All The Way To The Bank! A Holiday PPC Management Series
It’s that time of year again, PPC Hero’s! No matter how unprepared we are, the holiday season never fails to round the corner this time of year and surprise us. PPC management is no exception to this rule and we’ve...
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Using Social Media to Identify Negative Keywords
Negative keywords: likely the best and worst tool you have at your fingertips as a PPC account manager! Sometimes it’s difficult to identify the negative terms that will have the desired effect on your account (more qualified traffic, higher click-through...
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How I Manage a PPC Account With Overall Low Search Volume
This is the first post in our How I Manage A PPC Account With/Without ___________ series here on PPC Hero this week. Today I’ll be talking about how I manage a PPC account with overall low search volume. There can...
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Heroview – Keyword Research, Tools & Strategy with Michelle Morgan
Today’s #Heroview featured Michelle Morgan (@Michellemsem) as she enlightened us on the subject of PPC Keyword Research, Tools, and Strategy. The interview was full of great insights and interesting new ideas to add to your PPC arsenal. But you don’t...
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How To Create A PPC Keyword List
This is the first part in PPC Hero's week-long series on starting an AdWords account from scratch. This first post focuses on creating your initial PPC keyword list and walks you through the steps using Hanapin Marketing as an example....