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
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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
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