The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero’s four most visited, and hopefully most valuable, articles from January. Whether you’re a new subscriber or a current subscriber you may have missed these insightful and helpful pay-per-click management tips. Enjoy! Learning how to predict when your PPC traffic will drop is a great way to be proactive … [Read more...] about Our Greatest Hits for January!
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Learn the Basics of Testing Ad Copy: A PPC Primer
One of the best features of pay-per-click advertising is the ability to test. There are numerous tools and options in AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing and adCenter that allow PPC advertisers to test nearly every piece of their account. But, admittedly, this barrage of bells and whistles could make the average-Joe-PPC-beginner go crazy - or worse yet, abandon PPC altogether! I … [Read more...] about Learn the Basics of Testing Ad Copy: A PPC Primer
How to Use Analytics and Reports to Get to Know Your Customers Better
We've been walking in searchers' shoes all week, and today is mile 3 of our journey to think and search like our customers! Search marketers have a wide array of tools at their disposal, many of which are powerful assets in understanding search behavior. More specifically, the PPC search engines all offer invaluable reporting features detailing ad and keyword performance, but … [Read more...] about How to Use Analytics and Reports to Get to Know Your Customers Better
How to Predict When Your Traffic Will Drop and Ways to Prevent It
As part 2 of our 'Walk a Mile in a Searcher's Shoes' Series, today is mile 2! Now that the major holidays are over, I look back at what I could have done differently to maximize traffic and revenue for my clients through PPC. It’s actually very obvious, if I were to have just looked at the past year performance of my PPC account, I would have known which keywords increased in … [Read more...] about How to Predict When Your Traffic Will Drop and Ways to Prevent It
How to Write Ad Texts that Promise and Landing Pages that Deliver
Every day this week, PPC Hero is going to walk a mile in a searcher's shoes. Today is mile number one! Managing an effective search engine marketing campaign, and more specifically a PPC campaign, requires that you be a jack-of-many-trades. You have to know how to write concisely and effectively, being comfortable with statistical data is a must and you've got to know how to … [Read more...] about How to Write Ad Texts that Promise and Landing Pages that Deliver
5 Tips That Will Make Bulk Uploading into MSN AdCenter Headache Free
The ability to bulk edit your pay-per-click accounts varies between search engines. As usual, Google has the best system. Their AdWords Editor is fast, efficient and easy-to-use. However, Yahoo and MSN AdCenter also have bulk editing options, but theirs aren't as elegant as Google's. I was recently using MSN's bulk upload feature and found a few quirks in the system. I thought … [Read more...] about 5 Tips That Will Make Bulk Uploading into MSN AdCenter Headache Free
PPC News Roundup for January 16, 2008
Over at optimizeandprophesize.com, Jonathon Mendez has a list of the top 10 multivariate & A/B testing results from 2007. Most of the A/B split testing goes into detail on landing pages and conversion data. Some tests include a single product converting better over a choice of three, long scroll text and different calls to action on your landing page, which could also be … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for January 16, 2008
The Top 3 SEM “Year in Review” Lists for 2007
Every year, bloggers from all corners of the SEM industry create "Best of" lists to review news-bites, articles and varied quips on the year's performance. All of us at PPC Hero wanted to dive head-first into this year-end ritual. As part of our week-long look at 2007, we decided to examine these lists from other blogs and compile the 3 best for our readers! ClickZ: 2007 PPC … [Read more...] about The Top 3 SEM “Year in Review” Lists for 2007
Top 5 PPC Developments That Made News in 2007
The year of the boar, otherwise known as 2007, was a year to remember. Whether you followed the dilly-dallying of Britney Spears, the screen writer's strike or the feud between 50 Cent and Kanye West, 2007 offered something for everyone! All entertainment gossip aside, this past year was also huge for PPC. All three of the major search engines made strides in advancing their … [Read more...] about Top 5 PPC Developments That Made News in 2007
You Will Never Write the Perfect Ad Text, but Here Are 2 Ways To Keep Getting Closer
This week we have been exploring how to catch more clicks and conversions by writing better ad texts. Our tackle box has been filled the tools to help (just to name a few): Write benefit-driven ad text Use promotional offers and calls-to-action Qualify our leads as much as possible But let's be honest; even with all of these tactics at your disposal, you will never write … [Read more...] about You Will Never Write the Perfect Ad Text, but Here Are 2 Ways To Keep Getting Closer
How to Use Dynamic Keyword Insertion to Hook Customers
So far this week, we have discussed the best practices for writing great PPC ad texts. The ideas presented have thus far focused on writing techniques, not necessarily search engine provided tools. However, today I'd like to discuss one of the most powerful tools provided to advertisers: Dynamic Keyword Insertion (DKI). DKI is a way to write your ad so that a user's actual … [Read more...] about How to Use Dynamic Keyword Insertion to Hook Customers
PPC News Roundup for December 19, 2007
Previously in MSN's adCenter, you had to control your spending through a monthly budget. With a recent set of updates, it is now possible to set both a daily and maximum monthly budget. Thank you MSN! The PPC Blog provided this list of 13 Pay Per Click Myths. This list does a great job of breaking down some of the most common misperceptions, such as: the need to rank #1, … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for December 19, 2007