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Increase Your PPC ROAS In 2 Minutes With Dynamic Value Tracking
Better measurement of PPC results leads to better Return on Ad Spend. This post walks you through how to increase your ROAS by customizing your Google AdWords conversion tracking code to dynamically pull in order values or assigning values to leads based on...
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Google’s latest earnings report woes to have an impact on the future of PPC?
In case you hadn’t heard the big news, Google’s latest earnings report was accidentally released 4 hours early when RR Donnelly (the firm who prints Google’s financial documents) filed the reports during trading hours by mistake. The big news is that almighty Google’s net...
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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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Facebook Ad As Publicity Stunt?
The number one rule of advertising and marketing is don’t be boring. The number one rule of Social Media is pretty much the same thing -- be interesting, friendly, and helpful. Beta Brand has managed to navigate both rules brilliantly.
Misleading PPC Competition Metrics: A Case Study
This week, the PPC Hero series team has been uncovering various ways PPC numbers may be slightly skewed or just downright inaccurate, but how can misreported data hurt you from a competitive research standpoint? This post takes a look at...
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Heroview – New and Unusual PPC Auditing Techniques
Stuck in your old PPC auditing routine? Mix things up with our feedback from "British Sam" (Sam Owen of Hanapin Marketing) as he discusses new and unusual PPC auditing techniques n this week's Heroview.
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Google Display and Placement Fraud – Is Your Money Being Wasted?
Learn more about the Google Display Network and Placement Fraud and how you can protect yourself.
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CALLING ALL HEROES: The Hero Conf 2013 Speaker Pitch Form Now Available!
Planning on attending Hero Conf 2013 and consider your self a seasoned veteran in PPC? Then answer the call! Share your knowledge by filling out the Hero Conf speaker pitch form at: https://www.www.ppchero.com/hero-conf/speaker-pitch/. We’d like to hear your ideas on a few speaking...
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Hero Conf 2013 – Registration is open!
The wait is over! Hero Conf 2013 registration is open and you can now get your tickets! As a quick reminder, this year’s conference is over twice as large as last year. We expect over 200 people, we’ll have 45...
Name That Query! PPC Hero’s New Contest
The Internet can be a strange place. People make weird posts, people browse strange sites and, most important of us to us PPC Heroes of the word, people search for weird things. It’s something that we’ve long delighted in here...
Google’s New Ad Rotation Settings are Now REALLY Not the Devil
If you’ve been a long-time reader of PPC Hero, you might remember Sean Quadlin’s elegant dissertation back in May on how Google’s new Ad Rotation settings were, and I quote, “The Devil”. For the uninitiated: In May, Google introduced new...
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