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
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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
Praise and Caution for the AdWords Opportunities Tab
Last week Google expanded the beta test of the 'Opportunities Tab' in the AdWords interface. It is now fully available in all English-language accounts. According to Google, this new feature is designed to help advertisers find more cost-effective traffic in their pay-per-click accounts. This new tab surfaced in many of my accounts last week and I started testing it. Overall, I … [Read more...] about Praise and Caution for the AdWords Opportunities Tab
Managing Successful PPC Campaigns is a Science and an Art Form
Managing paid search campaigns requires a mixture of science and art. The scale probably tips more toward the scientific elements when it comes to optimizing your performance. However, in order to create a successful, well-balanced campaign, you can't completely disregard either end of the spectrum. Here are some skills/traits that you need to manage your PPC campaign … [Read more...] about Managing Successful PPC Campaigns is a Science and an Art Form
PPC Hero News Roundup for Friday 9/4/2009
If you want successful PPC ads, you have to do much more than just insert calls-to-action and hope visitors will respond. Great ad-writing is all about the language - understanding the language of your customers and enforcing the bond between ad and landing page. Are PPC marketers sneaky bastards? You bet! Just kidding. Actually, Greg over at SEM Geek has interesting take on … [Read more...] about PPC Hero News Roundup for Friday 9/4/2009
Our Greatest Hits for August 2009
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero's four most visited, and hopefully most valuable, articles from August. Whether you're a new or long-time subscriber you may have missed these insightful and helpful pay-per-click management tips. Enjoy! Coming in the number one spot is Carrie's post highlighting the top 10 reasons why your ads aren't showing in … [Read more...] about Our Greatest Hits for August 2009
Adding Testimonials to Your PPC Ads Can Help Increase Click-Through Rates
One of my larger clients is a resort/casino here in Indiana. The resort truly is beautiful, but there have been many other resorts/casinos popping up in the Indianapolis area making for some good competition. I typically like to include as many benefits in my PPC ad texts as possible. Whether a client is offering free shipping, or free returns, or even free estimates/quotes, … [Read more...] about Adding Testimonials to Your PPC Ads Can Help Increase Click-Through Rates
What You Need to Know About PPC Keyword Match Types
Using match types allows you to set up certain keywords in a way that will help you control who sees your ad. We recommend using all three of the main match types when you first activate your new PPC campaign so you can maximize your exposure and learn which match type will give you the best results. Later on you can determine which match type is most effective and pause … [Read more...] about What You Need to Know About PPC Keyword Match Types
Upload Your Account Structure to adCenter Quickly and Easily
Creating a smart account structure helps keep your keywords organized, saves you time, and helps improve your quality scores with Google. If Google AdWords can see that your keywords are in highly targeted ad groups with well-written and highly targeted ad texts, you'll likely get a great quality score, which helps you rank higher in Google but pay less. Once you have … [Read more...] about Upload Your Account Structure to adCenter Quickly and Easily
Separating Your Search and Display Networks within AdWords
Simply put, the search and display networks are completely different beasts and need to be treated as such. It will save you a lot of time and headache to separate these two networks, even if they are lumped together when you inherit the account. To quickly recap, the search network refers to ads that display based on keywords entered directly into a search engine. You … [Read more...] about Separating Your Search and Display Networks within AdWords
