PPC management can move at break-neck speed. A PPC campaign can see immediate results, and you can manage your campaign at this rate. This is truly remarkable. Never has a marketing tool of this power been unleashed where you can test your messaging, get real user responses, and adjust accordingly in almost real-time. However, I've learned with some campaigns that I need to … [Read more...] about How To Grow Your PPC Campaign Organically
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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
Tell Us Your Best PPC Success Story & Win Great Prizes!
Have a great success story you would like to share with other PPC advertisers? We want to hear it! If your PPC account was once suffering a poor ROI, low click volume or too high a cost-per-lead, etc. but is now performing well, we want to know what you did to get it to perform well and how you did it! We’re collecting entries for the best PPC success story and the winner … [Read more...] about Tell Us Your Best PPC Success Story & Win Great Prizes!
Our Greatest Hits for June!
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 subscriber or a current subscriber you may have missed these insightful and helpful pay-per-click management tips. Enjoy! Getting a little help with your PPC campaign is never a bad thing: we all get by with a little help from … [Read more...] about Our Greatest Hits for June!
PPC News Roundup for June 18, 2008
What's the future of Google Adwords Pay-Per-Action model? According to Search Engine Roundtable who spoke directly with their Google rep, Google doesn't know where they're headed with the PPA model but they're not sending out any invitations to be a part of the beta, "while t he product team figures out what direction the model will take in the future." Interesting… Search … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for June 18, 2008
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
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
5 Pay-Per-Click Myths You Shouldn’t Believe
These days you can read about Pay-Per-Click strategies all over the web. There is much talk about what to do and what not to do. While certain strategies may work for some, they may not work for others. What’s important is that you take in what other’s are saying but ultimately you should test different strategies on your own to see if they work for you. Below are 5 … [Read more...] about 5 Pay-Per-Click Myths You Shouldn’t Believe
Are You Hurting Your Keywords’ Performance? Without a Great Account Structure You Just Might Be!
Now that you’ve completed your keyword research it’s time to put all of your hard work together into one very relevant and targeted pay-per-click account. As the last post in our series on keyword research, one must know that great keyword research is a critical part in starting up a new pay-per-click campaign, but how you group and organize all those keywords can be even … [Read more...] about Are You Hurting Your Keywords’ Performance? Without a Great Account Structure You Just Might Be!
PPC News Roundup for April 16, 2008
Can your landing page copy have too much urgency? Can you scare unqualified traffic with urgent calls-to-action? According to an article posted at PPC-Advice, this very well could be the case. Their hypothesis is that your audience may not be to be told "Buy Now" or "Add to Cart" if they want more time to read your copy, and make their own decision. I think a blend could be … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for April 16, 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
“Demystify Pay-per-Click!” Check Out My Podcast on TheMarketingSpot.com.
Recently I was interviewed by Jay Ehret from TheMarketingspot.com; His blog is themarketingspot.blogspot.com and they mainly focus on internet marketing for small businesses. This is the first time I've been interviewed in regards to pay-per-click advertising and it was a lot of fun talking to Jay and helping educate people on how effective pay-per-click advertising can be for … [Read more...] about “Demystify Pay-per-Click!” Check Out My Podcast on TheMarketingSpot.com.