A few weeks ago I read a short and sweet article from the Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog about "what not to do" with your PPC account. They covered some of the basics like not bidding on keywords for which your site doesn't have content for, don't write misleading ad copy, don't submit irrelevant landing page URLs and on top of all of that - don't send your PPC traffic to low … [Read more...] about What Not to Do When Managing PPC Campaigns
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PPC Hero Landing Page Critique Podcast: 411taxrelief.com
We thought we would wrap up our landing page optimization series by posting a brand new landing page critique podcast! The goal of these podcasts is to give feedback on readers’ landing pages in order to help you make them better! Don’t forget, if you’d like to submit your landing page for our podcast series, you can read the details on how to submit right here. Today, we are … [Read more...] about PPC Hero Landing Page Critique Podcast: 411taxrelief.com
PPC News Roundup for September 17, 2008
Over on Search Engine Land Brad Geddes has written a good post on the top three search engine payment options for PPC. We think it's good for people to read over this and to learn their options on how they should pay their PPC bills. Brad talks about the levels of risk for each payment option but also goes into the rewards details. A lot of people don't know about invoicing and … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for September 17, 2008
Discover 5 Landing Page Design Changes that Build Authority and Boost Conversions
Welcome to day 1 of our PPC landing page optimization series. What better way to kick things off than to discuss landing page design and layout? For today's topic, think of a landing page's design and layout as the pieces of bread that keep the juicy calls-to-action, headlines and body content together for your customers to devour (landing page sandwich, yummy). The goal of … [Read more...] about Discover 5 Landing Page Design Changes that Build Authority and Boost Conversions
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 September 3, 2008
Using multiple campaigns to break up your PPC efforts is generally a smart principal that we adhere to. Nikki Kuhlman over at JumpFly reminds us why this is a good idea to consider in your pay-per-click strategies. You may already be well aware of this technique, but a refresher never hurts! The folks over at semvironment have noticed an interesting phenomenon with Yahoo … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for September 3, 2008
Google Is Reshuffling the AdWords Deck Again: Prepare For Another Quality Score Update
Late last week, Google announced another round of changes for their Quality Score system. Be prepared to say goodbye to "inactive for search" and "minimum bids" with this update. According to Google, the end goal of this change is to provide advertisers with a more accurate AdWords Quality Score. What Is Changing? Since it's inception, Quality Score has operated on a … [Read more...] about Google Is Reshuffling the AdWords Deck Again: Prepare For Another Quality Score Update
Post-Click Marketing for PPC Heroes
Welcome to the first in a series of special guest articles that we'll be publishing. This first article was writtne by Scott Brinker. Scott Brinker is a co-founder, president, and chief technology officer of ion interactive, a company that specializes in post-click marketing software and services for marketers and agencies. He blogs regularly at their Post-Click Marketing … [Read more...] about Post-Click Marketing for PPC Heroes
Yahoo Can Still Alter Your PPC Account And This Time You Can’t Opt Out
If you are running a Yahoo search marketing campaign: you have to read this post. Don't mean to cause a panic, but this is import folks. Last month I reported that Yahoo was going to automatically optimize your search marketing campaign without you. Just last Friday I ranted on how Yahoo's new market reserve price killed one of my campaigns. The hits just keep coming as I … [Read more...] about Yahoo Can Still Alter Your PPC Account And This Time You Can’t Opt Out
PPC News Roundup for May 22, 2008
Still having trouble with the Google Adwords Quality score? Check out this cool video by Matthew Bredel from 'Inside the Marketing Mind' that goes in depth about what the quality score is, and how you can improve it within your account. Writing ads with strong calls-to-action is one of those techniques every PPC advertiser should be using! In case you are new to what a … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for May 22, 2008
Have You Set Your PPC Goals for the Month? Do It Now!
We are at the beginning of the month and you are setting your pay-per-click goals - or at least you should be! This may seem rudimentary but you need to make sure that from month-to-month you have core objectives and goals in mind when managing your PPC campaign. If you don't have a clear, concise direction, then you may be wandering aimlessly. At the end and beginning of each … [Read more...] about Have You Set Your PPC Goals for the Month? Do It Now!
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