The results are in! The top 64 teams have been determined PPC Hero's Search Marketing Madness. Now we need your votes to determine the top 8 sites in each region. Vote for your favorite sites now in the survey below. Voting will be open until March 20th, so vote now and spread the word! … [Read more...] about Let The Games Begin!
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Nominate Your Favorite Blogs for Search Marketing Madness!
The first round of Search Marketing Madness starts today! PPC Hero has scoured the Internet for 60 sites to compete in the 2011 tournament, but we need to hear from YOU to fill the four remaining slots. Below are the current contenders in each region. To nominate a SEM blog send a tweet with the name of the site to @PPCHero or @SEOBoy. All submission must be received by … [Read more...] about Nominate Your Favorite Blogs for Search Marketing Madness!
Behind the Curtain: Uncovering Amazing Search Marketers – Series Wrap-up
If you’ve been following our series this week—Behind the Curtain: Uncovering Amazing Search Marketers—you’ve read about each stage of our detailed hiring process. If you haven’t been following, you can check out each part of our series: Part 1: Introduction to our hiring process series Part 2: The job announcement and writing portion Part 3: The phone interview Part 4: The … [Read more...] about Behind the Curtain: Uncovering Amazing Search Marketers – Series Wrap-up
Behind the Curtain: Uncovering Amazing Search Marketers Part 3
This is part three of our Behind the Curtain: Uncovering Amazing Search Marketers series. Yesterday, Jessica C. posted the job announcement and writing portion of the hiring process series. Prior to that, Jessica N. posted the introduction to our hiring process on PPC Hero and SEO Boy. Today is part three on the phone interview stage of our hiring process. At Hanapin … [Read more...] about Behind the Curtain: Uncovering Amazing Search Marketers Part 3
Behind the Curtain: Uncovering Amazing Search Marketers
At Hanapin Marketing, the parent company of both PPC Hero and SEO Boy, we’re all thrilled with the opportunity our blogs have given us to interact with other internet marketers and business owners looking to learn more about marketing themselves. That opportunity has grown out of a dedication to provide valuable, up-to-date industry knowledge to others- but what’s the secret of … [Read more...] about Behind the Curtain: Uncovering Amazing Search Marketers
Our Greatest Hits for February 2011
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero’s four most visited, and hopefully most valuable articles from February. Whether you’re a new or long-time subscriber, you may have missed these insightful and helpful PPC management tips. Bryan makes his Greatest Hits debut is first place, with Why and How You Should Rethink Ad Writing and Bidding Strategies. In … [Read more...] about Our Greatest Hits for February 2011
Letter from the CEO – “I’m telling you, baby, you always double down on an eleven.”
To do our blogs right--grow our monthly visitors, add to our daily subscribers, increase our rankings, and write quality articles that help great search marketers--requires a big investment. It's one that we've made for the past few years, and one that we're doubling down on starting this month! (On a side note, please, please, please tell me you know the movie reference to … [Read more...] about Letter from the CEO – “I’m telling you, baby, you always double down on an eleven.”
To Optimize or Not To Optimize, Google’s New Ad Setting
Many of you have probably already heard Google’s announcement for a new ad targeting feature, announced last Wednesday, which automatically optimizes ads by conversion rate. (Previously the only ad settings were ‘Rotate’, which showed all ads evenly no matter their performance, and ‘Optimize’, which favored ads with a higher click-through rate.) Undoubtedly, this new feature … [Read more...] about To Optimize or Not To Optimize, Google’s New Ad Setting
Google vs. Bing: Targeting Features Part 2
This is the second of a 2-part blog post comparing targeting features in AdWords and adCenter. The first post focuses on Language and Location targeting. Part two covers targeting by Device, Time of Day/Day of Week, and Demographics. Last month I wrote about the differences between the Language and Location targeting settings in Google AdWords and Microsoft adCenter. This post … [Read more...] about Google vs. Bing: Targeting Features Part 2
Looking at Revenue Across Adwords & Analytics
Last week, Hanapin Marketing conducted its monthly, company-wide training session where we take a look at a variety of PPC topics to further our understanding and develop as a company. For this session, one of the topics we covered was taking revenue across Adwords and Analytics, and I wanted to share a bit of what we presented with our readers. Overview For starters, if … [Read more...] about Looking at Revenue Across Adwords & Analytics
Creating Killer Ads Using Bing Dynamic Text
Last week Bryan wrote a great post about the changes Google is making in the way they display ads, so I thought it would be a good idea to call out the unique way Bing lets you insert dynamic text, and how you can use this to help you create killer ads. What is dynamic text? Dynamic text is a word or phrase that is inserted into your ad using a variable. After a search … [Read more...] about Creating Killer Ads Using Bing Dynamic Text
Why and How You Should Rethink Ad Writing and Bidding Strategies
We all know that Google likes to throw us in the industry for a loop every now and then. Usually, it is nothing to be too overly concerned about, despite the PPC doomsayers having a field day every time Google even changes it’s homepage logo. It simply means that you have to adapt a bit, tweak a strategy here and there, and voila, you’re back on the cutting edge of Adwords … [Read more...] about Why and How You Should Rethink Ad Writing and Bidding Strategies
