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
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Navigating PPC Trademark Rules
People are often confused about trademarks in general, but even more so when it comes to trademarks and PPC. Just the word brings about a sigh, as most foks equate trademarks with legal matters, which automatically sound confusing. In order to simplify things a little, I am would like to try and boil down the main rules into digestible bites. I have also pulled together a few … [Read more...] about Navigating PPC Trademark Rules
PPC News Roundup for February 18, 2011 Plus – Twitter Promo!
To kick things off this week, I’d like to mention a promo we are running through our Twitter account @ppchero. If you’d like to have your blog post included in our roundup next Friday, February 25, shoot us a link via direct message on Twitter, explain you’d like to be considered and you will be! While we can’t guarantee we’ll run every submission (we’re looking for … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for February 18, 2011 Plus – Twitter Promo!
PPC Hero Video Blog #3: The Contextual Targeting Tool
If you've chosen contextual targeting as your approach to the Google Display Network, Google's Contextual Targeting Tool is your new best friend! This tool makes recommendations on how to structure a display network campaign and what keywords to target. Most importantly, this tool gives you insight into how Google identifies themes for ad groups in display network campaigns. … [Read more...] about PPC Hero Video Blog #3: The Contextual Targeting Tool
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
PPC News Roundup for February 11, 2011
Remember last week’s roundup about the originality argument between Google and Bing? Well, the plot has thickened. As reported by Danny Goodwin of Search Engine Watch, a recently released Hitwise/Compete report shows that Bing’s popularity is increasing online. This is demonstrated in part from a 6% rise in Bing-powered searches (totaling now to 25.77% of the U.S. searches), … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for February 11, 2011
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
Facebook: You Can Lead a Horse to Water…
A few months ago I was looking at an account’s stats and my jaw literally dropped. I know I probably shouldn’t have been so surprised, but I was! The account’s Facebook campaign had outperformed its Google Adwords campaign. The Facebook account had spent less than half as much as the Google account, and while the Google account acquired more impressions and clicks, the Facebook … [Read more...] about Facebook: You Can Lead a Horse to Water…
PPC News Roundup for February 4, 2011
Ladies and gentlemen, the gloves are off. On Tuesday, February 1, Google released a statement accusing Bing of cheating off of Google's search results algorithm. In an article first reported at Search Engine Land by Danny Sullivan, Google announced that after running a series of carefully rigged search queries, it found that Bing was simply copying Google results in places … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for February 4, 2011
Our Greatest Hits for January 2011
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero’s four most visited, and hopefully most valuable articles from January. Whether you’re a new or long-time subscriber, you may have missed these insightful and helpful PPC management tips. In first place this month is Caleb with The What, Why, and How on Low Search Volume Keywords. When a keyword gains that … [Read more...] about Our Greatest Hits for January 2011
PPC News Roundup for January 28, 2011
Google Adwords introduced negative keywords lists as an improvement over the previous platform. Negative keywords help control campaign spends and filter out undesirable traffic that results in low conversion rates. David Iwanow explains the benefits of these lists in his post on Search Engine Journal this week. David explains that agencies and consultants can now develop … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for January 28, 2011
Using Negative Keyword Lists
Frequently running search query reports and refining your keyword exclusions is a great way to cut down on traffic that simply spends your money without achieving results. A negative keyword, if you need a refresher, is a term that can be added as a broad, phrase, or exact match to filter out “bad” traffic. Your ad won’t show when a searcher types in a query with the keyword … [Read more...] about Using Negative Keyword Lists
