When managing pay-per-click accounts, there is one activity that will improve your performance more easily than any other - effectively managing ad texts. Some would argue that bid management, optimizing for Quality Score or a myriad of other activities would take the cake. However, it is imperative that you have a strong first impression with searchers. Consider the … [Read more...] about See How Easily You Can Improve Your PPC Performance
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In Google AdWords, Bidding Wars Are a Thing of the Past: Beat Your Competition with These 4 Tactics
All week we have focused on how to improve your Quality Score, how to recognize "myths" and important factoids that lead to a solid understanding of Quality Score. Today's post is the fifth and final post in our 5-day series, and it is the culmination of a week's worth of knowledge! In days gone by, PPC bidding wars were commonplace when trying to achieve top positions in … [Read more...] about In Google AdWords, Bidding Wars Are a Thing of the Past: Beat Your Competition with These 4 Tactics
PPC News Roundup for September 27, 2007
Network Solutions and Ingenio, Inc. present a unique advertising method called Pay-Per-Call which will be launched at the end of the month. It allows Network Solutions customers to create a text ad, place a cost-per-call bid, and those ads will be advertised to consumers who are searching for local businesses and wish to interact with a live person. This article from Search … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for September 27, 2007
Need Ideas? Let the Competition Give You a Hand!
Has your creative well run dry? Do you feel like your PPC ads have lost their kick, or their punch? When reviewing your landing pages do you have the urge to try something new, but you're just not certain in which direction to go? Don't worry, everyone gets blocked at times. There is a plethora of ideas waiting to inspire you! You just just need to look in the right place - … [Read more...] about Need Ideas? Let the Competition Give You a Hand!
4 Most Important Settings to Check in Your Microsoft adCenter Account
This is the third and final post in my series on important settings to check when setting up accounts in the "big three" PPC search engines. After detailing Google AdWords and Yahoo! Search Marketing, it was time to dive into Microsoft's adCenter. There is a sickness infecting the search marketing community that keeps it from digging deeper into adCenter's house of wares. I … [Read more...] about 4 Most Important Settings to Check in Your Microsoft adCenter Account
PPC News Roundup for July 25, 2007
Microsoft takes another step in challenging Google with their new 'Gatineau Analytics' Package. There's not too much of a difference between the two analytics packages except that MSN will provide demographics data like the gender and age of people who are visiting your site. Gatineau will launch in beta later this summer. Much debate exists about the sophistication for … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for July 25, 2007
Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Click Fraud
Check out PPC Hero’s Ultimate Guide to How to Detect Click Fraud What is the difference between click fraud or invalid clicks? After reading this expose', it is my hope that you will walk away (browse away?) with a better understanding of both and what Google and Yahoo! are doing to protect you from these possible threats. First, let's define click fraud according to … [Read more...] about Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Click Fraud
PPC News Roundup for July 19, 2007
An article on adwords unexpected match types talks about how your ads could be coming up for completely irrelevant search terms. The cause of this is Google Adwords broad match, which is now being called by some, Google expanded broad match. They're basically stating that Googles search is too broad, even broader than we originally though. This article helps remind me that I … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for July 19, 2007
A Little AdWords Quality Score Sluething
Bill Slawski over at SEO by the Sea recently unearthed 3 patents filed by Google that map out the methods AdWords uses to determine the quality of an advertisement. As expected, the patents are mind-numbingly dry, but still we found them illuminating since the PPC Hero Team is constantly trying to breakdown the AdWords quality score to the most minute detail. As we are always … [Read more...] about A Little AdWords Quality Score Sluething
5 PPC Questions Answered by Evan Roberts from PPCLab.com
Evan Roberts is a well-known blogger in the pay-per-click industry. His blog, www.ppclab.com focuses on paid search and provides actionable analysis and insight into the world of PPC. Evan has been actively managing paid search for four years now. In addition to paid search Evan has extensive experience in search engine optimization and affiliate marketing. We've chosen Even … [Read more...] about 5 PPC Questions Answered by Evan Roberts from PPCLab.com
How to Set Up Your Shopzilla.com Account
Last Friday I posted 7 reasons why retailers should advertise on Shopzilla.com. Today I'd like to go into a little more in detail and show you how to set up your shopzilla.com account. As previously mentioned in my last blog, Shopzilla.com owns Bizrate.com. So you only have to set up your account once in Shopzilla.com in order to have your products posted on both shopping … [Read more...] about How to Set Up Your Shopzilla.com Account
7 Reasons Why Retailers Should Advertise with Shopzilla.com
There’s so much talk in the PPC world about Google, Yahoo!, MSN etc. But what about Shopzilla, Bizrate and Price Grabber? These are just three shopping comparison sites among the many out there. Advertising on one of these sites, preferably Shopzilla.com as you will see below, technically is pay-per-click, because you are paying per click. I’ve given seven reasons … [Read more...] about 7 Reasons Why Retailers Should Advertise with Shopzilla.com