In my opinion you can never read too many blogs on how to better set up your geo-targeting PPC campaigns for local search. The YouMoz blog goes into detail on how to set up and structure your PPC geo-targeted campaigns...
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PPC Hero News Roundup For 9/18/09
Bill Slawski posted a link this week to Analyzing and Evaluating Query Reformulation Strategies in Web Search Logs – this is a paper written by researchers from the University of Washington. In his post, A Taxonomy of Rewriting Search Terms,...
PPC Hero News Roundup for Friday 9/11/09
We’ve now entered the last quarter of the year – you know, the one packed with all the holidays and shopping days? It’s time to start thinking about and planning seasonal campaigns for clients. Some obvious – and not-so-obvious –...
PPC Hero News Roundup for Friday 9/4/2009
If you want successful PPC ads, you have to do much more than just insert calls-to-action and hope visitors will respond. Great ad-writing is all about the language – understanding the language of your customers and enforcing the bond between...
PPC Hero News Roundup for Friday 8/28/2009
In this economy, you definitely need to be smart about the way you spend your budgets for your PPC accounts – but there can be obstacles. In this post from Search Engine Land, Josh Weller examines 9 problems with paid...
PPC Hero News Roundup for Friday 8/21/2009
The team at Inside AdWords had an intriguing post this week. There’s been some research done lately on how much conversion rates vary with ad position. The results may surprise you. Want to optimize your PPC landing page, but aren’t...
PPC News Roundup for Friday 8/14/2009
Holy cow that is cool! Google is testing the use of images in PPC advertisements! There’s no description but who needs one when there is a picture? The only information present is the picture, price, brand and link. Very cool...
PPC News Roundup for Friday 8/7/2009
Search Engine Journal posted some screenshots indicating that Google is testing their results layout. The post, Sponsored Ads Get Closer to Organic Result in SERPs, shows screenshots of the paid results pushed a little to the left. Interested in more...
PPC News Roundup for Friday 7/31/2009
Confused by the overwhelming amount of information on the Yahoo/Microsoft agreement? Danny Sullivan over at Search Engine Land breaks it down with The Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal, In Simple Terms. It’s a fairly long post, but some good information nonetheless. Matt...
PPC News Roundup for Friday 7/24/2009
The Yahoo Search Marketing blog wants you to get ready for the back-to-school season. One tip on getting prepared is to focus your keywords on your searchers, not the buyers. What??? Yes, they say that the kids are the ones...
PPC News Roundup for Friday 7/17/2009
Wonder how much you should bid on that new keyword? Over at the Yahoo search marketing blog they’ll tell you which numbers actually matter when determining your keyword bid. They go into cost-per-lead, return on advertising spend and profit. Brad...
PPC News Roundup for Friday 7/10/2009
Semgeek posted about the possibility of PPC Ads in Movie Theatres. At first I thought how do you “Pay per Click” in a movie theatre? OK, so they don’t mean actual PPC, but the post does have interesting things to...
