Have a love/hate relationship with the adCenter editor? Us too. Read about how you can make up after a break up and your account will be better for it! Today's series post is about uploading negatives in bulk in a...
Continue Reading Love Me Tender: Uploading Negatives Into Bing
Twenty eleven brought us some strange, sometimes shocking, usually funny search queries. The whole Hanapin office had a great time mining our reports to bring you these gems. We had some great WTQ post tributes to icons such as Justin...
Continue Reading Best WTQ’s from 2011 – Plus Some Negative Keyword Tips!
I’m going to apologize right off the bat for this tired cliché, but not all keywords are created equal. There are, in fact, tons of keywords you don’t want anywhere near your campaigns, driving ‘bad’ traffic to your website. In...
Success, in my opinion, has become synonymous with a few core characteristics, such as resiliency and having the ability to think quickly on your feet. As paid search marketers, we are certainly no exception to these principals because we’re constantly...
Continue Reading Loosen Things Up In Your PPC Account With A Negative Keyword Audit
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...
Continue Reading Using Social Media to Identify Negative Keywords
On this week’s Whaddya’know Wednesdays, our weekly expert, Bethany Bey, give you 6 tips to enhance your negative keyword strategy. Negative keywords are just as important as your regular ones! So, if you’ve been neglecting your negatives or would like...
Continue Reading Whaddya’know Wednesdays: 6 Tips to Enhance Your Negative Keyword Strategy
Keyword match types are not a one size fits all kind of deal (like stretchy pants). Instead, all three can be utilized together, or separately, depending on your PPC strategy and/or business type. Each match type has its own set...
In April, we published an article introducing WTQs: those search queries that cause you to raise your eyebrows, laugh out loud, or both. Even a search marketer with the most diligent negative keyword lists can’t prepare for these bizarre terms that show...
Continue Reading “What Do Polar Bears Eat” and Other Weird Search Queries
Of all the routine tasks we do for PPC, updating our negative keyword lists is my favorite. Why? I’ll give you a hint: it’s not the CPC comparisons, nor analyzing an account’s keyword health. It’s not even the satisfaction I...
Continue Reading WTQ?! 12 Weird Search Queries, and What They Say About Your Audience
Frequently running search query reports and refining your keyword exclusions is a great way to cut down on traffic that simply spends your money without achieving results. A negative keyword, if you need a refresher, is a term that can...
Match types can be tricky, especially when it comes to adding negative match keywords. Negative match keywords (or keyword exclusions) are a very effective way to reduce the number of unqualified clicks on your ad. But negatives can get confusing,...
Continue Reading How to Use Negative Keywords in Yahoo! Search Marketing
There is a new feature that is somewhat-hidden within the new Google AdWords interface that I want to bring to your attention. Now, you can essentially run a search query report at the ad group level without actually running a...
Continue Reading A New Way to Find & Add Negative Keywords in Adwords
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