This week we are featuring guest articles from our PPC Hero allies! We requested submissions from our readers and we received excellent responses from some great PPC bloggers! The PPC Hero team will return to our regularly scheduled articles next week. Enjoy! The hardest part of every advertising campaign is determining how much to spend. There are numerous variables to work … [Read more...] about Take the Mystery Out of PPC Budgeting
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Discovering Keywords On the Cheap
This week we are featuring guest articles from our PPC Hero allies! We requested submissions from our readers and we received excellent responses from some great PPC bloggers! The PPC Hero team will return to our regularly scheduled articles next week. Enjoy! I love log files, analytics, and looking in your own backyard for PPC keyword strategies. I think your own site's … [Read more...] about Discovering Keywords On the Cheap
Our Greatest Hits for January!
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 pay-per-click management tips. Enjoy! There are plenty of rules within google Adwords outlining the policy of advertising trademarked names in your ad … [Read more...] about Our Greatest Hits for January!
How To Write and Effectively Test Your PPC Ad Texts
This week we are featuring guest articles from our PPC Hero allies! We requested submissions from our readers and we received excellent responses from some great PPC bloggers! The PPC Hero team will return to our regularly scheduled articles next week. Enjoy! How are you going to figure out what is the best PPC ad/creative in your campaign, if you haven’t identified the … [Read more...] about How To Write and Effectively Test Your PPC Ad Texts
PPC News Roundup for January 30, 2009
Greetings PPC Hero readers! We are recovering from 12" of snow and ice the past couple days. I was pretty happy, though, as Indiana University canceled classes for the first time since the 70's. Here's your weekly dose of PPC links ... Happy Friday! Brad Geddes gives us some helpful web-based tools to aid in your split testing. Brad highly suggests making sure you have enough … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for January 30, 2009
Utilizing Match Types in MSN to Increase Traffic and Leads
I had a call with an MSN AdCenter rep the other day that showed me a pretty cool feature when using match types in MSN. I had added keywords into MSN for a client of mine a while back using only broad match. When the MSN rep called me, they recommended I use additional match types. Okay, I do this in Google, why not try it in MSN? The cool thing about utilizing MSN match … [Read more...] about Utilizing Match Types in MSN to Increase Traffic and Leads
How To Decrease Your PPC Spend Smartly and Quickly
The end of the month is upon us. For many PPC managers this is crunch time for a number of reasons. You may be scrambling to meet that lead goal for the month, or complete that account optimization that is due this week. There are quite a few of you who are having a great month and you're actually slowing down your spend in order to remain within your monthly PPC budget. Today, … [Read more...] about How To Decrease Your PPC Spend Smartly and Quickly
Adwords Makes Yet Another Change to the Display URL Policy
According to Google, advertisers are only allowed to have one domain name per ad group in their ad texts. You may no longer have multiple domain names for each ad text in your ad groups. Advertisers today are allowed have an ad group with multiple domain names in each ad which include multiple display and destination urls. For example, currently in my shoes ad group I CAN … [Read more...] about Adwords Makes Yet Another Change to the Display URL Policy
5 Ways to Build and Expand Your Negative Keyword Lists Today
It's no lie, a lot of PPC bloggers talk about how to build and expand your negative keyword lists. But I've been ruminating on negative keyword list expansion here lately, and you know what? It never hurts to have a gentle reminder or refresher course now and then! Negative keywords are an integral part of your pay-per-click strategy (or at least they should be), and it's … [Read more...] about 5 Ways to Build and Expand Your Negative Keyword Lists Today
PPC News Roundup for January 23, 2009
This week's roundup brings us some adieu about Match Types. Some discussion within the PPC community has lead to differing views about how they should be incorporated into your accounts. Does the state of the economy result in dirty PPC strategies? Should you still go for head keywords? SEM Geek gives their take, emphasizing the need to nurture and protect your brand. … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for January 23, 2009
PPC News Roundup for January 16, 2009
Happy Friday everyone! We're having a heat wave here in Indiana, with the temps supposed to get up to 14 degrees today. I call it a heat wave based on the sub-zero temperatures we encountered yesterdays. Grab your cup of hot coffee and enjoy this week's blog roundup. I definitely take AdWords functionality for granted when compared to Yahoo!, or even worse, AdCenter. AdCenter … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for January 16, 2009
Yahoo Shuts Down Their Content Network in Europe
Today we received an announcement from Yahoo UK that they will be discontinuing their Content Match product in Europe. If you are running ads within a European-targeted Yahoo account, your campaigns will be effected. Just for clarity sakes, I will sample directly from the Yahoo notification: "As a valued client we are writing to give you advance notice of the closure of our … [Read more...] about Yahoo Shuts Down Their Content Network in Europe