Google mobile search, pocket PC PPC, PPC mobilism...no matter what you call it, pay per click for mobile devices is a hot topic right now. In this episode of Ticker Tuesday, we go through how to check to see that you're set up for mobile PPC in a way that gives you the most benefit from your PPC campaigns. So whether you're wondering if your mobile website is set up … [Read more...] about Ticker Tuesday: Are You Sure You’re Optimized For PPC Mobile?
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How To Increase Your PPC CTR – It’s Staring You Right in the Face!
Today we have a guest post from one of our PPC Hero allies! Dan Roche is a PPC Specialist for PushOn Ltd, a digital marketing agency based in Manchester, UK. —————- Clickthrough Rate (CTR) is an extremely important factor when managing your Pay Per Click accounts. The main focus of the advertiser is to gain a high number of qualified, targeted clicks to their site therefore … [Read more...] about How To Increase Your PPC CTR – It’s Staring You Right in the Face!
Google & Privacy – Adwords Wiggles into Your Private Life
The next time you read emails in your Gmail account, take a look at the advertisements on the side bar. Do they have anything to do with what you are talking about in your email? Chance are, they do. Gmail continues to be a free service because they allow advertisements to show while you read your email. For Paid Search Marketers, Gmail is yet another outlet for a client’s … [Read more...] about Google & Privacy – Adwords Wiggles into Your Private Life
Comparing Quality Score Across AdWords & AdCenter
A Universal Quality Score? Quality score has always been an elusive creature for many people in the search marketing industry. What is it? How is it calculated? How does it affect my account? These are just a few of the questions that deserve more clarity. I believe this additional clarity becomes particularly important with multiple versions of quality score in play. Google … [Read more...] about Comparing Quality Score Across AdWords & AdCenter
Four Tips to Liven Up Your Facebook Marketing
Many relationship therapists will tell you that the key to a successful long-term relationship is keeping things new, exciting, and fresh. The same is true for our online relationships – if you want to keep your Facebook fans happy, you’ll need to add new content regularly. While you can’t join a French cooking class with your fans, you can still show them you care by treating … [Read more...] about Four Tips to Liven Up Your Facebook Marketing
My Top 5 Excel Tips for PPC Managers
This post is in response to you, our readers! In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve added a box at the bottom of the page where you can write to the PPC Hero team with ideas for us to write about next. This is great as it allows us to give the people what they want and learn things that maybe we hadn’t thought of visiting before. Thanks for all your responses! Now on to my … [Read more...] about My Top 5 Excel Tips for PPC Managers
Hanapin is Hiring! – Looking for Account Managers
Hang out with people who understand the web, work with some of the best companies nationwide, and spend your days where your talents and intelligence are appreciated and make a difference! Hanapin Marketing is now hiring, and we’re looking for talented people who love search engine marketing. Applications are due Monday, January 17, 2011 by 5 p.m.– so get started on that cover … [Read more...] about Hanapin is Hiring! – Looking for Account Managers
PPC: A Review of 2010 & Our Expectations for 2011
As we near the end of the year, our team reflected on the changes seen in PPC, and put together the following recap of those with the biggest impact so far: Twitter Twitter has begun to reach out to companies who want to advertise on their social media platform via what are being called “promoted tweets.” Basically, a company or advertising agency can pay (based on a cost per … [Read more...] about PPC: A Review of 2010 & Our Expectations for 2011
The PPC Audit: Rewards for a Critical Eye
You might be a small business owner, new to search engine marketing, and questioning the effectiveness of your initial PPC account structure. On the other hand, you could be an experienced PPC professional needing a new perspective on an established account. Without a doubt, the needs of these two PPC extremes may be entirely opposite. The PPC beginner could simply need … [Read more...] about The PPC Audit: Rewards for a Critical Eye
PPC News Roundup for October 22, 2010
During an economic downturn many business choose to save many by moving previously out-sourced services back in-house. In the PPC world many companies are choosing to take back management of their Internet marketing campaigns and turn them over to their traditional marketing team. If you’re a business thinking about having your marketing team manage your online campaigns you … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for October 22, 2010
PPC News Roundup for September 17, 2010
The holiday season is upon us, and the spike in online seasonal traffic is set to begin. The holidays definitely aren’t the time to set it and forget it; instead, we should capitalize on this time of year by beefing up our keyword lists. Erin ODonnell with Microsoft Advertising gives some helpful tactics for keyword list expansion in Holiday Preparation Series: Travel PPC … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for September 17, 2010
6 Steps To Raise Your Quality Score
Quality score is a vital component of your pay-per-click account because it influences ad position and keywords’ minimum bid. What is the quality score's purpose? Google assigns a quality score to ensure that it only shows relevant ads to users. Think of it this way, Google makes money off of the ads that it shows to the users. Google is by far the most popular search engine … [Read more...] about 6 Steps To Raise Your Quality Score