If you wanna make some display ads for yourself…or your clients, but don’t really have the time, money, expertise: that’s okay! Yahoo is piloting a program that provides templates to help you in creating display ads and displaying them for...
Yahoo’s New Display Advertising – See How It Works
On Monday, Yahoo released their new display advertising for small and large businesses. Yahoo’s display advertising program is identical to Google with a few twists. You can target your display ads geographically, demographically, and within specific content network placements. The...
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What to Expect When You Make a Global Change to Your PPC Account: Launching a New Website
You should think of this article as a “what to expect when you’re expecting” in regards to launching a new website. More to the point, I will focus on the effects that launching a new website will have on your...
How to Spend All That Money: A Few PPC Budgeting Strategies
When you are in the process of building a pay-per-click advertising campaign, one of the least enjoyable but most important things to consider is your budget. How, in fact, do you intend to spend your (or your clients’) money? The...
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Happy Father’s Day from PPC Hero!
As you know, we’ve been looking through some of PPC Hero’s photo albums that were stashed away in his Fortress of Awesomeness (he changed the name of the fortress because “Solitude” was too somber and he wanted something that reflected...
PPC News Roundup for June 16, 2009
Over at Website Magazine Peter Prestino has written an article on five PPC landing page design trends. These are not only trends but they are also best-practices when considering a landing page design. Good stuff. Have you seen the new...
Find Competitor’s Top Performing Keywords & Use Them To Your Advantage
Ever wonder what your competitors’ top keywords are? Would you like to know if your competition is down in traffic the same times of year you are? I’m sure you wish you could find out how many unique visitors your...
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How to Use Google Wonder Wheel and Related Search Tools for Keyword Research
The fuel that drives every PPC campaign is your keyword list. The success of your campaign will live and die by the keywords that you target. You need to make sure that you are targeting the right keywords and that...
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Use Content Network Stats to Create High-Performing Placement Targeted Campaigns
The Google Content Network can be a great source of ROI, but it can also represent a great risk. The potential for great performance – and the potential for wasted budget – both come as a result of the network’s...
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PPC Blog News Roundup for Friday 6/12/2009
Who said PPC isn’t good for branding? A study from eMarketer found that Senior-level Marketing Executives don’t see PPC as a good branding initiative. This response from Post-Click Marketing proves that you throw away a lot of money if you...
A New Way to Find & Add Negative Keywords in Adwords
There is a new feature that is somewhat-hidden within the new Google AdWords interface that I want to bring to your attention. Now, you can essentially run a search query report at the ad group level without actually running a...
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What You Need to Know about Google AdWords’ New Conversion Tracking Metrics
One of the newly visible metrics within the updated Google AdWords interface pertains to conversion tracking. Today, we will explore the difference between the “Conversions (many-per-click)” data and the “Conversions (1-per-click)” data. If you have migrated to the new AdWords...
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