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The Most Important Element of Your AdWords Campaign
Jeremy Mayes over at PPC Discussions asks, “In your mind, what is the most important element of an AdWords campaign?” This is a very interesting question, and I like the car analogy he uses (see his original post); however, I...
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Is Yahoo!’s New Ad Text Length Policy Hurting Advertisers?
Well, some people think so. Search Engine Roundtable shared this comment from a Web Master World forum discussion: “My CTR since May 16 has fallen through the floor. I assume this is because of the new short description policy.” After...
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MSN Ad Center Updates Coming Soon
I spoke with an MSN representative today and got the scoop on some upcoming features they plan to add in the next few months. ‘Today’, ‘Last 7 Days’, and custom date ranges will be added to the drop down in...
Don’t Worry: Your AdWords Accounts Aren’t Ending
When we logged into our AdWords accounts this morning a number of them contained this notification at the top: “Your account budget is currently set to end before your ad campaign(s). Campaigns cannot run beyond an account end date. To...
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Placement Performance Reporting
What is it? Google’s new Placement Performance Report allows advertisers to view the sites where their ads are being displayed on the content network. In the not-so-distant past, advertisers were relegated to “all or nothing” content strategies. This new transparency...
PPC News Roundup for May 23, 2007
This is a blinding flash of the obvious! If you want to improve your tracking ability and truly measure how well your online marketing is performing, give users an incentive to place the order online. This tip is a real...
Are Your PPC Ads Disappearing in Google?
An interesting question/issue has been posted over at WebmasterWorld: On the 16th of May, I noticed that most of the websites that were in the first page rankings in Google USA, had been dropped to second and third page positions....
Follow Up on Preferred Cost Bidding Test
As a follow up to my preferred cost bidding blog a few weeks ago, I’m here to share my results after testing for two weeks. Although my cost-per-click has remained nearly the same, my click-through rates and average ad positions...
PPC News Roundup for May 18, 2007
Wondering what that new column ‘Assists’ means in Yahoo? Here it from the horses mouth! MSN has been releasing some handy tools as of late for easier account management. I haven’t had a chance to use them yet, but I’m...
PPC News Roundup for May 16, 2007
Daniel Tynski talks about common mistakes one can make in SEO & SEM. Search Engine Guide presents a list from Wordtracker of the top 500 search terms in the past 48 hours. John Miller from Search Engine Land discusses ways...
Display & Destination URLs: Make sure they are fraternal twins
We’ve recently been asked a question regarding ad URLs: “Hi, I’ve been using Google Adwords and MSN Adcenter for a while and have decided to have a look at yahoos PPC offering, now all seems ok, except it doesn’t seem...
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