It is very important to choose the appropriate match type for your PPC campaign. Some accounts can thrive off exact match alone, while others need a good mix to drive the best traffic. Read about the pros and cons of each match type from Search Engine Land. This post from Brad Geddes, You are Not Your Target Market is one of the best posts I've … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup For 10/9/09
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PPC Hero News Roundup for Friday 9/11/09
We've now entered the last quarter of the year – you know, the one packed with all the holidays and shopping days? It's time to start thinking about and planning seasonal campaigns for clients. Some obvious – and not-so-obvious – dates to mark on your calendar should help get you started. New reporting features are always welcome, especially from Yahoo. Their new Ad Delivery … [Read more...] about PPC Hero News Roundup for Friday 9/11/09
PPC Hero News Roundup for Friday 9/4/2009
If you want successful PPC ads, you have to do much more than just insert calls-to-action and hope visitors will respond. Great ad-writing is all about the language - understanding the language of your customers and enforcing the bond between ad and landing page. Are PPC marketers sneaky bastards? You bet! Just kidding. Actually, Greg over at SEM Geek has interesting take on … [Read more...] about PPC Hero News Roundup for Friday 9/4/2009
How to Set Up Proper PPC and Analytics Tracking
Whether you're starting a PPC account from scratch or inheriting a large account from another agency or manager, the story should start pretty much the same. "Once upon a time in PPC land, I opened a Google Analytics account and double-checked that all of my traffic and conversion tracking was implemented correctly." Maybe this process isn't a fairy tale, but ensuring you … [Read more...] about How to Set Up Proper PPC and Analytics Tracking
How to Manage and Optimize Second-tier PPC Search Engines
Within this document, and on our blog, we focus mainly on Google AdWords and Microsoft adCenter. This is because these search engines own the lion's share of the search industry. However, second-tier search engines can generate supplemental traffic, leads, and revenue if they are managed and monitored properly. Each second-tier PPC search engine has a unique user … [Read more...] about How to Manage and Optimize Second-tier PPC Search Engines
PPC Hero News Roundup for Friday 8/21/2009
The team at Inside AdWords had an intriguing post this week. There's been some research done lately on how much conversion rates vary with ad position. The results may surprise you. Want to optimize your PPC landing page, but aren't exactly sure where you should begin? Search Engine Watch has a handy list of seven optimization tips to help increase conversions, which includes … [Read more...] about PPC Hero News Roundup for Friday 8/21/2009
PPC News Roundup for Friday 8/14/2009
Holy cow that is cool! Google is testing the use of images in PPC advertisements! There's no description but who needs one when there is a picture? The only information present is the picture, price, brand and link. Very cool for click-through rates. A study over at Bing.com says they're seeing a 23% increase in ROI in Bing.com over Live search. They claim that Bing's user … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for Friday 8/14/2009
10 Questions You Should Ask a Potential New PPC Management Firm
You’ve either been trying to manage your company's PPC account on your own, or you have hired a general marketing person to manage the PPC account internally. Regardless, you know that more could be done to get more bank for your buck. How do you know when it’s time to hire a PPC management firm? You know more could be done. You have 50 keywords in your entire account. You … [Read more...] about 10 Questions You Should Ask a Potential New PPC Management Firm
Yahoo and Microsoft Announce A Search Partnership
The news hit this morning: Yahoo and Microsoft have officially announced an extensive partnership. We're not certain what exactly this will mean for your pay-per click campaigns just yet (on a day-to-day basis). However, we would like to provide some resources so that you can learn more about this announcement: Microsoft-Yahoo partnership resources: You can learn more about … [Read more...] about Yahoo and Microsoft Announce A Search Partnership
PPC News Roundup for Friday 7/10/2009
Semgeek posted about the possibility of PPC Ads in Movie Theatres. At first I thought how do you "Pay per Click" in a movie theatre? OK, so they don't mean actual PPC, but the post does have interesting things to say about geo-targeting and marketing in general. Still think you can make thousands of dollars a week working from home for Google? Hate to break it to you, but it's … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for Friday 7/10/2009
Our Greatest Hits for June 2009
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero's four most visited, and hopefully most valuable, articles from June. Whether you're a new or long-time subscriber you may have missed these insightful and helpful pay-per-click management tips. Enjoy! If you're not using competitive keyword research tools to learn about your competitors' keywords, you may be missing … [Read more...] about Our Greatest Hits for June 2009
PPC News Roundup for Friday 6/26/2009
If you wanna make some display ads for yourself…or your clients, but don’t really have the time, money, expertise: that’s okay! Yahoo is piloting a program that provides templates to help you in creating display ads and displaying them for a minimum of $30/day. Read Yahoo’s take on why you would want to run them, and how to get started. Hey! Apparently this has confused a … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for Friday 6/26/2009
