I think not enough people take advantage of ad scheduling/day parting. There are lots of reasons to schedule your ads including this one from the folks at ROI Revolution: if people can't reach your company 24 hours a day, it might be hurting you to have your ads running at 3 AM. All internet advertising and marketing these days is about quickly, continuously, and transparently … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup For 10/23/2009
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How to Use Negative Keywords in Yahoo! Search Marketing
Match types can be tricky, especially when it comes to adding negative match keywords. Negative match keywords (or keyword exclusions) are a very effective way to reduce the number of unqualified clicks on your ad. But negatives can get confusing, and often times a manager will inadvertently add a negative that prevents a targeted keyword from showing ads. To me, Google keyword … [Read more...] about How to Use Negative Keywords in Yahoo! Search Marketing
PPC News Roundup For 10/9/09
It is very important to choose the appropriate match type for your PPC campaign. Some accounts can thrive off exact match alone, while others need a good mix to drive the best traffic. Read about the pros and cons of each match type from Search Engine Land. This post from Brad Geddes, You are Not Your Target Market is one of the best posts I've … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup For 10/9/09
Our Greatest Hits for September 2009
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero's four most visited, and hopefully most valuable, articles from September. Whether you're a new or long-time subscriber you may have missed these insightful and helpful pay-per-click management tips. Enjoy! Amber's post titled, 5 Tips on Passing the Google Adwords Qualified Professional Exam was our top post in … [Read more...] about Our Greatest Hits for September 2009
PPC Hero News Roundup For 10/2/09
This week on Search Engine Watch, Tim Ash debunks the myth of achieving perfect conversion. Keeping this in mind, you may be able to analyze and revisit your conversion rate "ceiling." You can't convert 100% of your visitors, because some of them, no matter what you do, may never be prepared to take action. Even if you have keyword-rich ads and immaculately-structured … [Read more...] about PPC Hero News Roundup For 10/2/09
We’re Looking for Search Engine Marketing (SEO + PPC) Specialists
Do you know someone who loves the web? Hanapin Marketing is currently looking for three search marketing specialists to add to our talented and hard working team! We have a comprehensive and intensive 12-week training program, so while experience in SEO and PPC is helpful, it's not required. The ideal candidate... loves the Internet; obsessively makes to do … [Read more...] about We’re Looking for Search Engine Marketing (SEO + PPC) Specialists
Learn More about ClickSweeper – SWEEPSTAKES SPONSOR
In case you haven't heard, the Hanapin Marketing Team is giving away $16,000 in SEM software, books and services in our Totally Awesome SEM Sweepstakes! Throughout the week we're going to give you some details on the software prizes that are up for grabs in the sweepstakes. And if you haven't done so, enter now! Pay per click advertising doesn’t have to be time-consuming, … [Read more...] about Learn More about ClickSweeper – SWEEPSTAKES SPONSOR
Win One of These Excellent Books in Our Awesome SEM Giveaway!
As part of our $16,000 Search Engine Marketing Giveaway, we’re giving away 100 free copies of some great SEM books by excellent industry authors. We wanted to introduce the books to our readers in case you haven’t heard about some of them! If you find one (or two! or three!) you'd like, enter our free contest- you can specify which book you’d like to receive if you’re randomly … [Read more...] about Win One of These Excellent Books in Our Awesome SEM Giveaway!
PPC Hero News Roundup For 9/25/09
In my opinion you can never read too many blogs on how to better set up your geo-targeting PPC campaigns for local search. The YouMoz blog goes into detail on how to set up and structure your PPC geo-targeted campaigns to get the most traffic and quality leads. Check out Google's new 'place pages' where instead of Google showing you a large bubble when you click on 'more … [Read more...] about PPC Hero News Roundup For 9/25/09
PPC Hero News Roundup For 9/18/09
Bill Slawski posted a link this week to Analyzing and Evaluating Query Reformulation Strategies in Web Search Logs – this is a paper written by researchers from the University of Washington. In his post, A Taxonomy of Rewriting Search Terms, Slawski outlines a few highlights from the paper – a very interesting read! If only we could dress our PPC ads in bright orange - … [Read more...] about PPC Hero News Roundup For 9/18/09
How To Confirm Placement of Your PPC Ads in Bing.com
MSN announced the launch of a new ad preview tool for Bing.com. Instead of typing in your keywords directly into Bing, you can now use the ad preview tool to make sure your ads are showing without affecting the real search results. Typically, I will get clients that like to type in their keywords into Google, Yahoo and MSN almost every day just to see how their ad looks in … [Read more...] about How To Confirm Placement of Your PPC Ads in Bing.com
PPC Hero Landing Page Optimization Podcast – GreensBoro500.com
Today’s PPC Hero Landing Page Optimization Podcast will focus on the Greensboro500.com PPC Landing Page, submitted by Nick. Nick said in his submission that this page is about 8 months old, and conversion rates have been declining since that time. They are geotargeted such that ads only appear to searchers within a ten mile radius of their office. The PPC Hero team has … [Read more...] about PPC Hero Landing Page Optimization Podcast – GreensBoro500.com
