Seeing higher minimum CPC’s lately? That might be because Google Adwords has re-evaluated their Quality Score on Keywords according to PPC Lab. Although it doesn’t explicitly say why, google frequently re-evaluates their keyword quality score algo and some underperforming keywords...
Blog Posts
How to Use Analytics and Reports to Get to Know Your Customers Better
We’ve been walking in searchers’ shoes all week, and today is mile 3 of our journey to think and search like our customers! Search marketers have a wide array of tools at their disposal, many of which are powerful assets...
Continue Reading How to Use Analytics and Reports to Get to Know Your Customers Better
How to Predict When Your Traffic Will Drop and Ways to Prevent It
As part 2 of our ‘Walk a Mile in a Searcher’s Shoes’ Series, today is mile 2! Now that the major holidays are over, I look back at what I could have done differently to maximize traffic and revenue for...
Continue Reading How to Predict When Your Traffic Will Drop and Ways to Prevent It
How to Write Ad Texts that Promise and Landing Pages that Deliver
Every day this week, PPC Hero is going to walk a mile in a searcher’s shoes. Today is mile number one! Managing an effective search engine marketing campaign, and more specifically a PPC campaign, requires that you be a jack-of-many-trades....
Continue Reading How to Write Ad Texts that Promise and Landing Pages that Deliver
Learn How to Think and Search Like Your Customers
Everyday millions of people are searching for answers. This is not in reference to some existential crisis that encompasses the search for the meaning of life. These millions of people are looking for a specific answer to a particular question...
Continue Reading Learn How to Think and Search Like Your Customers
5 Tips That Will Make Bulk Uploading into MSN AdCenter Headache Free
The ability to bulk edit your pay-per-click accounts varies between search engines. As usual, Google has the best system. Their AdWords Editor is fast, efficient and easy-to-use. However, Yahoo and MSN AdCenter also have bulk editing options, but theirs aren’t...
Continue Reading 5 Tips That Will Make Bulk Uploading into MSN AdCenter Headache Free
Yahoo! Turns Conversion Tracking Off If No Conversions in a 45 Day Time Period
“They’ve never really explained to me why this happens, it just does”, says my Yahoo! rep about my conversion tracking being automatically turned off because I didn’t generate any conversions within a 45 day time frame. This came up about...
Continue Reading Yahoo! Turns Conversion Tracking Off If No Conversions in a 45 Day Time Period
PPC News Roundup for January 16, 2008
Over at optimizeandprophesize.com, Jonathon Mendez has a list of the top 10 multivariate & A/B testing results from 2007. Most of the A/B split testing goes into detail on landing pages and conversion data. Some tests include a single product...
Our Favorite PPC Blogs of 2007: Our PPC Hero Allies!
We read many blogs on a multitude topics. However, there are certain blogs to which we pay close attention: other PPC-focused blogs! There are few blogs that frequently publish articles on in-depth PPC management strategy, and industry developments. We view...
Continue Reading Our Favorite PPC Blogs of 2007: Our PPC Hero Allies!
The Top 3 SEM “Year in Review” Lists for 2007
Every year, bloggers from all corners of the SEM industry create “Best of” lists to review news-bites, articles and varied quips on the year’s performance. All of us at PPC Hero wanted to dive head-first into this year-end ritual. As...
Continue Reading The Top 3 SEM “Year in Review” Lists for 2007
Our Top 10 PPC Hero Blog Posts of 2007
2007 saw the birth of PPC Hero! He fights for truth, justice, higher click-through rates, lower cost-per-clicks, enhanced conversion rates, better quality scores, and the American way. This week we are doing some reviewing and summarization of the past year;...
What We Did to Make it Work: 3 Account Management Achievements in 2007
In the PPC world, you will run into a lot of tips on how to improve or grow your accounts. Something we find is missing are real case studies; Discussing what the problem was, how you found the problem and...
Continue Reading What We Did to Make it Work: 3 Account Management Achievements in 2007
