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 love log files, analytics, and looking in your own backyard for PPC keyword strategies. I think your own site's … [Read more...] about Discovering Keywords On the Cheap
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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
More Insights Into The AdWords Quality Score And First Page Bidding Strategy
As you know, we frequently write about the Google Quality Score. We do this because the Quality Score affects the performance of your AdWords campaign, and it is shrouded in mystery (a bad combo). Well, over the past year Google has been lifting the thick veil that hides the mechanics of the Quality Score in order to give advertisers more visibility as to how their keywords are … [Read more...] about More Insights Into The AdWords Quality Score And First Page Bidding Strategy
How to Analyze the Most Important PPC Reports
Of all the reasons to love pay-per-click advertising, the reporting capabilities have to be number one! All of the major (and minor) PPC search engines offer reporting so that you can make smart, informed decisions about your advertising. That being said, reports are only capable of providing the best data when they're analyzed correctly. So, today's PPC Basics lesson is … [Read more...] about How to Analyze the Most Important PPC Reports
Use Trust Symbols & Credibility Elements to Increase Conversions
At the recent PPC Summit in Los Angeles, Tim Ash gave a presentation on his methods for increasing landing page conversions. Tim is the President and CEO of www.SiteTuners.com. Site Tuners is a multivariate testing website optimizer that helps advertisers test different elements on their landing pages to increase conversions/leads. Tim has also written a very popular book … [Read more...] about Use Trust Symbols & Credibility Elements to Increase Conversions
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Masters of Business Online – Internet Marketing Event
Masters of Business Online is hosting its second annual event on October 14! We're announcing it here on PPC Hero because 1) if you're in Indiana, this is a must-attend event for anyone even remotely serious about Internet marketing and 2) our president and CEO, Pat East, is speaking on search engine optimization (yes, the folks at PPC Hero know more than just PPC!). "MBO" is … [Read more...] about Masters of Business Online – Internet Marketing Event
My New Favorite Keyword Research Tool: MSN adCenter Ad Intelligence
Way back in January MSN announced a new adCenter add-in tool for Excel 2007 call Ad Intelligence. Recently, MSN adCenter announced that they are releasing this add-in for Microsoft Excel 2003. With this release more people are going to be able to utilize this tool so I thought I would conduct a quick review of the MSN adCenter Ad Intelligence tool for Excel. The adCenter folks … [Read more...] about My New Favorite Keyword Research Tool: MSN adCenter Ad Intelligence
PPC News Roundup for August 27, 2008
SEOmoz presents headsmacker tip #6 - Test with Paid Search Before You Target with SEO. This concise post is a nice refresher in the relationship between your PPC and SEO efforts, offering some good tips and insight. We are always interested in the exact relationship between keywords and search results. Darren Slaten posted this interesting experiment over at YOUmoz, in an … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for August 27, 2008
You Asked, MSN Delivered. Reporting, Billing and Keyword Research Features Now Live in MSN
In a recent email from MSN, new features that have been requested by users to help improve the way advertisers manage their campaigns, pay their bills and more, have finally been added. The first enhancement in MSN is the ability to manage your credit cards and pay bills more efficiently. Outside of your regular monthly billing schedule, you can now pay on demand with the new … [Read more...] about You Asked, MSN Delivered. Reporting, Billing and Keyword Research Features Now Live in MSN
PPC News Roundup for August 6, 2008
We all know the pains associated with broad match keywords that may have no relation to what you are actually targeting in your PPC campaigns. The folks over at PPC-Advice.com offer up some useful strategies to counter this issue. We typically employ negative keywords as the weapon against these broad match keywords. This post outlines what negative keywords are useful and what … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for August 6, 2008
PPC News Roundup for July 3, 2008
If you're wanting excellent tips on how to build a profitable PPC campaign, check out David Szetela's new weekly column on SEW called, Profitable PPC. The series will aim to build and optimize successful PPC campaigns from start to finish. Can't wait to read them David! Wondering how you can create a radio ad with success in Adwords? Shoemoney says it's been a great source of … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for July 3, 2008
