After spending the past few years working in PPC marketing, I'd like to believe I'm exceptionally competent at managing effective search campaigns. Based on the ROI and profit margins associated with many of those campaigns, that may be true. For companies that handle all of their own search marketing internally, it's possible, and likely, for the search manager to be an … [Read more...] about Building a Better Keyword List – One Relative at a Time
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Use These Tips from Yahoo to Maximize Your Holiday Revenue
This information was presented in a webinar by Yahoo last week. I went into it hoping to learn something new but wasn’t expecting to learn something new – but it turned out to be a very insightful webinar full of good stats that you can cater your PPC advertising campaigns to this holiday season. General Holiday Shopping Stats: Women this year are planning to spend … [Read more...] about Use These Tips from Yahoo to Maximize Your Holiday Revenue
Landing Page Testing: How to test and what to test
Testing your ad copy and your landing pages can significantly improve your paid search efforts. Of course, building a solid keyword base, creating an optimized account structure, and executing a well-planned bid management strategy are also crucial. However, testing allows you to understand how to optimize and improve your communication with your target audience. Conducting … [Read more...] about Landing Page Testing: How to test and what to test
Weed Out Unqualified Traffic with the Search Query Report from MSN adCenter
Finally we’re getting more data about the search queries that trigger our ads to display in Bing.com. Google has had the search query report out for a while now, and Yahoo! has it but you have to request it personally from your Yahoo rep (if you have one). But now you can finally see raw search query data within your adCenter PPC account. Search query reports show you the … [Read more...] about Weed Out Unqualified Traffic with the Search Query Report from MSN adCenter
Our Greatest Hits for October 2009
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero's four most visited, and hopefully most valuable, articles from October. Whether you're a new or long-time subscriber you may have missed these insightful and helpful pay-per-click management tips. Enjoy! Yahoo’s match types might seem a little confusing in the first place, but with the additional pressure of adding … [Read more...] about Our Greatest Hits for October 2009
Google’s New Ad Sitelinks & How You Can Get Them for Your Account
Google Adwords has implemented yet another new feature for Adwords PPC advertisers, and this time it’s pretty cool. The new feature is called ‘ad sitelinks’, and it allows PPC advertisers with high quality ads to add four additional links under their main PPC ad. This allows users easier access to deeper content of your website. The sitelinks also provide advertisers with a … [Read more...] about Google’s New Ad Sitelinks & How You Can Get Them for Your Account
How to Fine Tune Your International Campaigns in AdWords
You always need to exercise caution when utilizing broad match in AdWords. This almost goes without saying, but I said it anyway. The scope of queries matched to each broad match keyword has grown over the past couple of years, especially with the introduction of Google's expanded broad match. Today, I will spin a cautionary tale about casting a wide keyword net within … [Read more...] about How to Fine Tune Your International Campaigns in AdWords
Learn More about SEM Rush- Sponsored Post
Wouldn’t it be great to know what keywords your competitors are using with just one click? What if with that same click you could also find estimated traffic and ad positioning or even see a list of your direct competitors? If you aspire to optimize your site without spending a lot of money and time, SEMRush.com is the first and steady step to your success. Developed by the … [Read more...] about Learn More about SEM Rush- Sponsored Post
5 Tips To Save Money & Generate Additional Revenue with Ad Scheduling
I know that ad scheduling/day parting isn’t new to PPC, but I was recently at a marketing conference where the speaker mentioned he used ad scheduling for nearly every one of his clients. This got me thinking: why I don’t use ad scheduling more often or at least run a few daily/hourly reports to see if it’s a good idea? If you’re thinking about doing any kind of ad scheduling … [Read more...] about 5 Tips To Save Money & Generate Additional Revenue with Ad Scheduling
Grand Prize Winner for our Totally Awesome SEM Sweepstakes!
Today we are drawing for the grand prize winner for our Totally SEM Sweepstakes! This lucky person will receive a free PPC account review or SEO website review from the Hanapin Marketing Team. Nice! The email will be going out to the winner shortly. Phew! And that does it! The contest is done. Congratulations to all of our winners. Thank you to everyone who entered, who … [Read more...] about Grand Prize Winner for our Totally Awesome SEM Sweepstakes!
What is the View Through Data in Google Adwords & How Can It Benefit You?
View through data in Adwords is actually pretty cool, but only for people who run Adsense or a lot of display ads on the content network. This tool provides conversion data if you have display ads running via the content network. It’s not relevant for simple text ads running in your PPC account. With that said, the new view through conversion data shows how many conversions … [Read more...] about What is the View Through Data in Google Adwords & How Can It Benefit You?
Software Winners for our Totally Awesome SEM Sweepstakes!
Yesterday we drew for the book prizes, and today we're drawing the software prize winners for our Totally Awesome SEM Sweepstakes give away! Winners will be notified by email about their totally awesome prize! So, what did these folks win? Good question! This is what we're giving away: 3 free subscriptions to SEO Moz 3 free subscriptions to SEO Book 2 free subscriptions to … [Read more...] about Software Winners for our Totally Awesome SEM Sweepstakes!
