Last week the PPC Hero team attended a lecture by Jim Koehler, Senior Statistician for Google. The lecture was on the campus of Indiana University as part of their Statistics Symposium (we are about a 7 minute drive from campus!). We had no serious expectations on the topic or content. But when someone from Google speaks, you listen! The content was geared toward the target … [Read more...] about Is DMA Targeting Within AdWords the Wave of the Future?
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Know the How, When, Why of AdWords Conversion Optimizer
This week we are featuring guest articles from our PPC Hero allies! We requested submissions from our readers and we received excellent responses from some great PPC bloggers! The PPC Hero team will return to our regularly scheduled articles next week. Enjoy! I only recently realized that Google’s conversion optimizer had lowered its requirement on the search network to 30 … [Read more...] about Know the How, When, Why of AdWords Conversion Optimizer
How To Write and Effectively Test Your PPC Ad Texts
This week we are featuring guest articles from our PPC Hero allies! We requested submissions from our readers and we received excellent responses from some great PPC bloggers! The PPC Hero team will return to our regularly scheduled articles next week. Enjoy! How are you going to figure out what is the best PPC ad/creative in your campaign, if you haven’t identified the … [Read more...] about How To Write and Effectively Test Your PPC Ad Texts
Use Trademark™ and Registered® Symbols in Your Ads to Increase Click-Through Rates
Do you or one of your clients have a registered or trademarked company name? If so, try putting the trademarked or registered symbol in your PPC ads to help increase click-through rates. The reasoning behind this strategy and how it may help increase your click-through rates is two-fold: 1. It will help your PPC ad stand apart from other competitor ads in the … [Read more...] about Use Trademark™ and Registered® Symbols in Your Ads to Increase Click-Through Rates
How Can You Expand Your PCC Reach? Target Blog RSS Feeds With Google AdWords!
Recently, Google AdWords announced that they have expanded their placement targeting to include RSS feeds for blogs that have opted into the AdSense network. Today, I thought we'd cover how you can find this new information within your AdWords account. First, why would you specifically target RSS (really simple syndication) feeds for blogs? RSS feed placements allow you to … [Read more...] about How Can You Expand Your PCC Reach? Target Blog RSS Feeds With Google AdWords!
A Beginners Checklist for Writing Benefit-Focused Ad Texts
Continuing our series on PPC basics, we now find ourselves at a monumental juncture in our PPC adventures. That might be an over exaggeration, but ad texts can really drive home clicks and conversions for your campaigns. In order to write the best ads possible, you need to write benefit-focused ad texts. Simply put, ads that are benefit-focused do exactly what the name implies … [Read more...] about A Beginners Checklist for Writing Benefit-Focused Ad Texts
Get Your Free Copy of “Always Be Testing” by Bryan Eisenberg
Update: Thanks for everyone who participated in the book give away. All of the copies have been claimed and will be shipped out soon. The kind folks over at the Google Website Optimizer Blog dropped us a line to say that they are looking forward to this week's blog series on landing pages. In fact, they would like to offer some additional information on landing page testing as … [Read more...] about Get Your Free Copy of “Always Be Testing” by Bryan Eisenberg
My Best Advice on Improving Your Google & Yahoo Quality Scores
It's been almost two years now that Google & Yahoo have implemented their quality score and quality index algorithms. Hopefully by now, you've implemented some changes in your account that can improve your quality score, which can increase your ad positions while decreasing your maximum bid amount. In this post I'd like to share with you some changes that I have made in my … [Read more...] about My Best Advice on Improving Your Google & Yahoo Quality Scores
Reader’s Favorites
Here at PPC Hero, we let our readers decide their favorite articles! That is, we let the pageviews do the talking. Below you will find a list of our most-read blog posts. As our readership grows, the PPC industry changes and the tastes of our readers becomes more refined, we'll keep this list up-to-date. Enjoy! Yahoo Is Going to Automatically Optimize Your PPC Account … [Read more...] about Reader’s Favorites
Take a First Look at the adCenter Desktop Beta and Share Your Thoughts
If you're anything like me, you have a touch of the "ooh, shiny!" complex. By that I mean, each and every new product offering from my favorite search engines carries with it a certain appeal. I get excited at the prospect of trying something new and possibly finding my next favorite resource along the way. This month, Microsoft unleashed their adCenter Desktop Beta on us. … [Read more...] about Take a First Look at the adCenter Desktop Beta and Share Your Thoughts
Getting PPC Advice from Yahoo!? Take the Good with the Bad
Reading search marketing blogs is like a box of chocolates – you never know what you're gonna get. Today I was scrolling through my blog reader quickly reviewing the "big three" blogs. When I got to the YSM Blog, I was greeted with this headline: "Writing Effective Ads." With a smile I clicked through and began reading. Very soon into this excerpt from Yahoo!'s Smart Start … [Read more...] about Getting PPC Advice from Yahoo!? Take the Good with the Bad
Use Demographics To Geographically Target Your PPC Ads
A number of my PPC campaigns are geographically targeted, as I'm sure many of your PPC campaigns are as well. For these campaigns I adhere to my list of best PPC practices: ad text testing, bid management, keyword research, content optimization, and the list goes on and on. Every month I strive to expand my campaigns' reach, but within a prescribed geographic radius. Recently, … [Read more...] about Use Demographics To Geographically Target Your PPC Ads