Greetings PPC Hero readers! I got a Blackberry this week. And I love it. It really is a Crackberry. That’s really all I have for you this week. Enjoy the blogs! If you use AdCenter for international campaigns (anyone?), their...
Get All of Your AdWords PPC Tools in Place
Today, Google announced a site that acts as a one-stop shop for all your Google Adwords tools called the Google Agency Tool Kit. Within the site is several tools advertisers use every day to help create and optimize their PPC...
And Yet Another Wave of Yahoo! ‘Minimum Bid Requirements’ and Keyword Updates
This will admittedly be a short post. But I find it incredibly odd how Yahoo! has programmed their minimum bid system. In lieu of dynamically updating accounts that need attention on an as-needed basis – instead, Yahoo! rolls out massive...
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Has Yahoo Optimized Your Account Without Your Consent? You Better Check!
Last summer, we wrote about Yahoo’s ad profiling program. This is a quick reminder that you need to be vigilant when monitoring for changes that Yahoo makes to your PPC campaign without your knowledge or consent. What is Ad Profiling?...
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Happy International Pancake Day!
Breakfast is our favorite meal of the day… so we are extremely excited to wish everyone a very happy International Pancake Day! Pancakes are close to the perfect food. Hot, sweet, hardy and delicious! Now get over to IHOP and...
PPC News Roundup for February 20, 2009
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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