“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.” -Michelangelo You don’t have to be the Michelangelo of PPC to optimize a campaign, but optimizing is much like chipping...
Letter from the CEO – “Looks like you’ve been missing a lot of work lately.”
“I wouldn’t say I’ve been *missing* it, Bob.” You may have noticed that I didn’t post a ‘Letter from the CEO’ in October. My days at Hanapin have been extraordinarily busy lately with planning some big projects. Among them, we’ve...
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Rockin’ Around the Holiday Keyword Research Tree
As Kayla mentioned in her introductory post on Friday, this week we’ll be giving you one post a day about ramping your e-commerce PPC acc0unt for the upcoming holiday shopping season. Today I’ll be giving you some tips on doing...
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Ask PPC Hero!
PPC Hero truly enjoys interacting with our readers and answering their questions. To aid in this, we implemented a KISSInsights pop up box on the site where readers could submit their questions. The problem was this box would pop up...
Jingle Your Bells All The Way To The Bank! A Holiday PPC Management Series
It’s that time of year again, PPC Hero’s! No matter how unprepared we are, the holiday season never fails to round the corner this time of year and surprise us. PPC management is no exception to this rule and we’ve...
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Overview and Analysis of AdWords Bidding Options
When I took the AdWords test for the first time, there were two bidding options: CPM and CPC. Now there are many different ways to bid in AdWords and you can even mix and match these strategies together. In the...
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Will Google Update Impact Paid Search?
Will the update to the Google search algorithms affect paid search? The short answer, probably. But let's dive in and set what the changes are and what I predict will happen.
Our Greatest Hits for October 2011
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero’s most visited, and hopefully most valuable articles from October. Whether you’re a new or long-time subscriber, you may have missed these insightful and helpful PPC management tips. Enjoy!
The Results of our Bidding Options Survey are In!
Last week, we posted a survey asking you for your feedback on AdWords bidding options. We asked our readers what bidding options they currently use in AdWords and which one they find the most beneficial. Check out the results from...
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It’s Official: New Ad Placements on Google
Paid search ads at the bottom of Google search results have been seen for several months. Today, Google announced that these new ad placements have been rolled out across their network. When to utilize these new placements will be determined...
MSN adCenter Introduces Import Campaigns Feature
So, you’re managing a PPC account that’s running on AdWords and adCenter. That’s pretty common practice. Do you have issues syncing the two? Do you constantly have to download things from AdWords to upload into adCenter? Well, adCenter has just...
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The Sweet Spot—Bidding Smartest, not Hardest
We’ve all been there in our accounts—keyword isn’t performing well, and its at position four on average, lets throw money at it until it stops being such a pain. SMART! Then dust off your hands, and go back to the...
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