We know that paid search was utilizied by the Obama team when was was running against John McCain. SEM Geek reviews what was accomplished by these campaigns, and what to expect for future political paid search. Yahoo! has a new...
Stop Spending Thousands of Dollars on Unqualified Traffic by Writing Smarter Ad Texts.
More than ever, it’s incredibly important to spend your marketing money wisely. This means for PPC, writing ads that not only increase your click-through rates and relevancy, but also qualify each click to make sure that every visitor is highly...
Is DMA Targeting Within AdWords the Wave of the Future?
Last week the PPC Hero team attended a lecture by Jim Koehler, Senior Statistician for Google. The lecture was on the campus of Indiana University as part of their Statistics Symposium (we are about a 7 minute drive from campus!)....
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Happy Valentine’s Day From PPC Hero!
PPC Hero wishes everyone an ewy-gooey sickeningly sweet Valentine’s Day! PPC Hero is offering up some PPC specific heart-shaped candies. He likes these much better than those personalized M&M’s. Have a great holiday!
PPC News Roundup for February 13, 2009
Happy Friday PPC geeks I don’t want to jinx myself, but here goes nothing. I see perhaps a crack in winter’s armor. Or at least I hope. This weather is sweet! Which is great, because I coincidentally broke my ankle...
Increase Conversion Rates with User Driven Feedback
When it comes to designing landing pages, everyone thinks they’re an expert on what users want: your marketing team, executives, executive’s wives, IT and graphic designers all truly believe they know exactly how to design a landing page that meet...
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Review Your Conversion Paths To Look For Optimization Opportunities
In order to properly optimize your conversion rate, you don’t want to to track just the total number of conversions you generate at any given time. You need to understand the path users take through your site on their way...
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What to Do When the Content Network Goes Haywire
I like Google’s Content Network. We’re pretty good friends. Over the past few years our relationship has grown to one of mutual respect. I set reasonable parameters and CPCs, the Content Network returns the favor with semi-to-mostly relevant traffic. Last...
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Know the How, When, Why of AdWords Conversion Optimizer
This week we are featuring guest articles from our PPC Hero allies! We requested submissions from our readers and we received excellent responses from some great PPC bloggers! The PPC Hero team will return to our regularly scheduled articles next...
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How To Track Phone Calls Generated From Your Landing Page
This week we are featuring guest articles from our PPC Hero allies! We requested submissions from our readers and we received excellent responses from some great PPC bloggers! The PPC Hero team will return to our regularly scheduled articles next...
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PPC News Roundup for February 6, 2009
Happy Friday everyone! I’m taking a road trip up to Chicago this weekend to catch up with a bunch of old college buddies. I’m pretty excited … Plus, it’s not going to be -3 degrees outside, at least not for...
Google Quality Score Is Overhyped
This week we are featuring guest articles from our PPC Hero allies! We requested submissions from our readers and we received excellent responses from some great PPC bloggers! The PPC Hero team will return to our regularly scheduled articles next...
