Having problems lowering your PPC bounce rate? Traffic.com says to take a look at your homepage and landing pages one more time. If you have an annoying splash page that people have to find their way out of or if your customers have to request a pin or register just to view your site, that could be attributing to your higher bounce rates. "Let's talk landing pages", says … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for April 30, 2008
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PPC News Roundup for April 23, 2008
Often we discuss the pre-click strategy (your keywords, ad texts), and post-click strategy (landing pages, websites). However, we haven't discussed the post-conversion strategy. What do you do with users after they have actually taken the requested action on your site? You get them to make another one! Vishen at MindValey Labs has posted a good article, "The Dead End Thank You … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for April 23, 2008
Why You Are Selling Your Keyword Research Short Because You Have a Poor Research Strategy
Welcome to day one of our week-long series on keyword research! Let me sum up the theme of our series: Keyword research is the foundation upon which you build your search marketing campaigns. Yes, I know, that's the most obvious statement ever. Regardless, I'm going to keep banging away at this great analogy! What do you need to build anything from a dog house to a great … [Read more...] about Why You Are Selling Your Keyword Research Short Because You Have a Poor Research Strategy
PPC News Roundup for April 9, 2008
The future of advertising will soon arrive (in Q3, 2008)! At least according to Yahoo. Recently, Yahoo announced AMP, a new advertising platform that will revolutionize my life and yours (according to Yahoo). Right now, the video they have posted to the site is geared toward publishers, and not advertisers. Is AMP going to be available on both sides of the coin? If AMP isn't … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for April 9, 2008
Want Your Business to Be Around in 450 Million Years? Manage Your PPC Campaign Like a Shark
I was reading an article about sharks and it got me thinking about PPC management. Sure, most people's brains may not make that leap, but that's the way I roll. Sharks have been around for approximately 450 million years. Their survival is not by accident; it is a result of evolutionary instinct combined with aggressive predatory skills. And the one biological aspect of a … [Read more...] about Want Your Business to Be Around in 450 Million Years? Manage Your PPC Campaign Like a Shark
Our Greatest Hits for March!
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero’s four most visited, and hopefully most valuable, articles from March. Whether you’re a new subscriber or a current subscriber you may have missed these insightful and helpful pay-per-click management tips. Enjoy! The search query report in Google Adwords is a fairly new report that has several great uses. In this … [Read more...] about Our Greatest Hits for March!
PPC News Roundup for March 6, 2008
Shimon Sandler from shimonsandler.com gives 8 methods for tracking phone conversions through search advertising. A few methods include: Creating a unique landing page with a unique 800# and to generate a unique "promo code" by placing all your keywords in a database and assign them an individual ID. It is often difficult to determine how decreasing or increasing your daily … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for March 6, 2008
International PPC Campaigns: How to Target Outside the US With Success
Today is the third day in our week long series on advanced PPC strategies. According to a Search Marketing Now webinar, 75% of the world’s searches are performed outside of North America. That’s a large number, which tells me there is a lot of opportunity to reach additional customers, to increase traffic, and revenue. Targeting outside North America does require a specific … [Read more...] about International PPC Campaigns: How to Target Outside the US With Success
PPC for B2B: Real World Recommendations You Can Use
Today is part 2 of our week long series on Advanced PPC Strategies. When I solicited for feedback a few weeks ago, one of the best comments I received was a request for tips on managing PPC for business-to-business (B2B) clients. Through my experiences with B2B pay-per-click campaigns I understand why this is such an important topic. There are vast differences between … [Read more...] about PPC for B2B: Real World Recommendations You Can Use
Advanced PPC Strategies: What Do You Want to Read About?
In searching through our web stats today, the category "Advanced PPC Strategies" ranks as one of the top 10 pieces of content on our blog. All time, it's the 4th most viewed piece. Clearly, you're interested in it! So, we're making one of our next blog post series about just that—Advanced PPC Strategies! Our last two blog post series were extremely well-read—one … [Read more...] about Advanced PPC Strategies: What Do You Want to Read About?
PPC News Roundup for February 6, 2008
As you may, or may not, know the Google content network is a mysterious beast. It can certainly generate a great wealth of traffic, but that traffic isn't always of the highest quality. However, if you can achieve the right balance of appearing on the content network while maintaining a positive ROI, then you're ahead of the game. I think we do a pretty good job of … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for February 6, 2008
Our Greatest Hits for January!
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!