Microsoft takes another step in challenging Google with their new ‘Gatineau Analytics’ Package. There’s not too much of a difference between the two analytics packages except that MSN will provide demographics data like the gender and age of people who...
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Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Click Fraud
Check out PPC Hero’s Ultimate Guide to How to Detect Click Fraud What is the difference between click fraud or invalid clicks? After reading this expose’, it is my hope that you will walk away (browse away?) with a better understanding...
Give Us Your Two Cents on the Google AdWords Quality Score
This is a quick Thank You to everyone who has filled out our Google AdWords Quality Score Survey – and this is a gentle reminder to those of you haven’t done so yet! The survey is looking to determine how...
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Blog Tipping: The Next Big Thing
All of us here at PPC Hero are consistently looking for ways to improve ourselves. This need for betterment comes in a myriad of flavors: writing, PPC management, blog management and all of the behind the scenes SEO work, too....
Top 5 Settings to Check When Starting a Yahoo! Search Marketing Account
Two weeks ago I wrote about the most important settings to check when starting up an AdWords account. This week I’ll be detailing some of the ins and outs of the Yahoo! Search Marketing interface (YSM or Panama). I should...
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PPC News Roundup for July 19, 2007
An article on adwords unexpected match types talks about how your ads could be coming up for completely irrelevant search terms. The cause of this is Google Adwords broad match, which is now being called by some, Google expanded broad...
Google AdWords Quality Score Survey
After doing some sleuthing into Google’s AdWords quality score, we’d like to ask for your opinion on the matter! We created a list of the 12 most influential attributes of Google’s quality score and this survey asks for your opinion...
A Little AdWords Quality Score Sluething
Bill Slawski over at SEO by the Sea recently unearthed 3 patents filed by Google that map out the methods AdWords uses to determine the quality of an advertisement. As expected, the patents are mind-numbingly dry, but still we found...
Google Global Firefox Extension is Your Friend
Last week I posted a note about Google’s AdWords Ad Preview Page – a very handy tool to keep your unnecessary impressions to a minimal. Well, we have another winner for you. You may be running international campaigns on Google...
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Two Paths to Lead Generation: Part Two – Slow & Steady
In my last post we discussed how to churn and burn: generating as many leads/conversions as possible, and sorting them out in the sales process (the chain restaurant theory). Now, we’ll review the alternative approach to lead generation which does...
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Don’t Forget Your Branded Keywords and Then Some!
Adding different variations of your branded keywords can greatly increase your traffic, leads and sales. I have two concrete examples of this technique that have worked for me in the past. In the chart below I’ve documented five weeks of...
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PPC News Roundup for July 11, 2007
Check out Marketing Pilgrims Free eBook on SEO, PPC and social media marketing advice. Be aware of your content network ads – they could be bringing in accidental clicks. Here’s how to avoid them from PPC Blog UK. Search Engine...
