Properly organizing keywords in your PPC campaigns is crucial to success. Search Engine Land’s Josh Dreller interviewed WordStream’s Larry Kim to understand best practices in keyword grouping and some new keyword research tools that PPC managers can use. Believe it or not, it is time to start preparing for post-holiday optimizations in your pay-per-click campaign. Check out … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for 12/18/2009
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Expand Your Keyword Research Today with Two New Free Tools from WordStream
This article was written by John A. Lee, Paid Search Manager at WordStream Inc., a provider of keyword tools for pay-per-click (PPC) and search engine optimization (SEO) efforts involving large numbers of keywords. Search engine marketing and profitability are two things that should go hand-in-hand. As many of you know all too well, this isn't always the case. When you add … [Read more...] about Expand Your Keyword Research Today with Two New Free Tools from WordStream
6 Rules to Achieve Awesome Quality Scores & Increase PPC Performance
I have clients and potential new clients ask me all the time how can they improve their quality scores in their Google, Yahoo and MSN PPC accounts. Quality Score is based off of relevance to the users search query and user experience. The higher your quality score is, technically the lower you pay for your clicks and the higher you can get in position in paid advertising. … [Read more...] about 6 Rules to Achieve Awesome Quality Scores & Increase PPC Performance
PPC News Roundup for 12/11/2009
With so many new features coming out in online marketing these days, it is easy to lost sight of the small things that can impact your PPC account. Inspired by an SES Chicago panel, Kevin Lee has posted the top 10 oversights in base search best practices. Don’t forget to take advantage of all the free tools that are out there to help you with your PPC campaigns. Search Engine … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for 12/11/2009
PPC News Roundup for 12/4/2009
If you haven’t already- please, take a moment to fill out our readership survey! We’re looking to better understand our readers so we can specialize content to what you want…and we can’t do that without your help. It’s a win-win: we all get better content, and you’ll have a chance to win a free landing page review by the PPC Hero team! Fantastic. Thanks in advance! Are you … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for 12/4/2009
Our Greatest Hits for November 2009
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero’s four most visited, and hopefully most valuable, articles from November. Whether you’re a new or long-time subscriber you may have missed these insightful and helpful PPC management tips. Enjoy! Need to start optimizing your landing pages? If your answer isn’t “I already do that”, then yes, yes you do. Don’t limit … [Read more...] about Our Greatest Hits for November 2009
A Gazillion Ways to Test Landing Pages to Increase Conversions
We’ve spoken before about using Google website optimizer to test different elements of your landing page to help increase conversion rates. But the other day the team here at Hanapin Marketing came up with a full list of those elements to test using the multivariate testing option in Website optimizer. The multivariate testing allows you to add in a piece of code to your … [Read more...] about A Gazillion Ways to Test Landing Pages to Increase Conversions
Building a Better Keyword List – One Relative at a Time
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
Increase PPC Conversion Rates by Targeting High Volume Locations
If you have a PPC account that allows you to target across the Unites States, try adding geo-targeted campaigns for each of the 50 states to help increase your conversion and click-through rates. In most of my accounts I have inherited, there are several campaigns with very specific keywords that are targeted all across the US or one particular area. A great way to help … [Read more...] about Increase PPC Conversion Rates by Targeting High Volume Locations
PPC News Roundup for 11/20/2009
Have you heard of the Google Content Network Blast? The blast apparently serves up an advertiser’s ad on several of Google’s CN sites over a shorter time frame, geographic region, audience segment or high traffic sites. These blasts can deliver 100 million impressions over a 24 – 48 hour time period. See how you can sign up for one today. When it comes to PPC, making sure … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for 11/20/2009
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
PPC News Roundup for 11/13/2009
Search Engine Land takes a look at the advanced segments feature in Google Analytics. The example compares short & long keywords to show how the advanced tool can be used to analyze keyword data more efficiently. Never hurts to learn a little bit more about Analytics... The next installment in the SEM Beginner Series explains the use of dynamic text and how it can be … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for 11/13/2009
