Since we’re only a couple days away from the end of 2009 and many of us are working a short week this week, it seems like a good time to pull out a classic end of year cliche: the Resolution...
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Happy Holidays 2009 from PPC Hero!
Yeah! Perhaps we’re in the minority, but we love the weather at this time of year. You can have snowball fights, go skiing, make a snowman, go ice skating… and don’t forget sledding! Sledding is the best. It isn’t really...
PPC vs. SEO: Which is the Right Answer?
There’s a continuous debate in the search marketing industry about which is the more effective and efficient use of resources: pay per click or natural search engine optimization. Obviously, I’ll be supporting the PPC side of this argument. Our trusty...
PPC News Roundup for 12/18/2009
Properly organizing keywords in your PPC campaigns is crucial to success. Search Engine Land’s Josh Dreller interviewed WordStream’s Larry Kim to understand best practices in keyword grouping and some new keyword research tools that PPC managers can use. Believe it...
Expand Your Keyword Research Today with Two New Free Tools from WordStream
This article was written by John A. Lee, Paid Search Manager at WordStream Inc., a provider of keyword tools for pay-per-click (PPC) and search engine optimization (SEO) efforts involving large numbers of keywords. Search engine marketing and profitability are two...
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6 Rules to Achieve Awesome Quality Scores & Increase PPC Performance
I have clients and potential new clients ask me all the time how can they improve their quality scores in their Google, Yahoo and MSN PPC accounts. Quality Score is based off of relevance to the users search query and...
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PPC News Roundup for 12/11/2009
With so many new features coming out in online marketing these days, it is easy to lost sight of the small things that can impact your PPC account. Inspired by an SES Chicago panel, Kevin Lee has posted the top...
Long Tail Terms for the Holiday Shopping Season
In the second week of December, we’re quickly approaching the end of the biggest gift-giving, and therefore the biggest shopping, period of the year. So, here’s one of the most important questions a good search marketer can ask himself/herself to...
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Google LBA’s Are Being Removed, Get a Location Extension Instead
Late last week Search Engine Land posted an article on how Google is planning to stop allowing companies to create local business ads, and for anyone who currently has a LBA will stop displaying mid-December. Now the post did say...
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PPC News Roundup for 12/4/2009
If you haven’t already- please, take a moment to fill out our readership survey! We’re looking to better understand our readers so we can specialize content to what you want…and we can’t do that without your help. It’s a win-win:...
Our Greatest Hits for November 2009
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero’s four most visited, and hopefully most valuable, articles from November. Whether you’re a new or long-time subscriber you may have missed these insightful and helpful PPC management tips. Enjoy!...
A Gazillion Ways to Test Landing Pages to Increase Conversions
We’ve spoken before about using Google website optimizer to test different elements of your landing page to help increase conversion rates. But the other day the team here at Hanapin Marketing came up with a full list of those elements...
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