What do you do when you feel like you've hit the traffic ceiling for your campaigns? There are no budgets restricting your ad distribution but you still feel like you aren't generating the amount of traffic you think you're capable of. The next step you can take is to focus on your campaigns' impression share. Today, I would like to define Impression Share within Google … [Read more...] about Use Your Impression Share Report To Increase Clicks and Conversions
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Learn How to Distribute Your PPC Budget between Search Engines
Last week the PPC Hero team had a discussion about what paid-search tasks advertisers have the most problems with. One of the biggest we came up with was concerning spending budgets and how they are distributed between the various search engines. This is a huge hurtle to jump – right up there with "which search engines should I use?" Unless you have extensive experience with … [Read more...] about Learn How to Distribute Your PPC Budget between Search Engines
PPC News Roundup for October 2, 2008
This offering from PPC Advice gives their outlook on the staggering economy and its impact on the online marketing industry. It's a positive one, and for all of our sakes, we can hope it pans out like they predict. You may be debating whether or not to set up a Google Analytics account for your clients. This YOUmoz post details the process, and gives some introductory … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for October 2, 2008
Why Position Preference May Stop Showing Your Ads
One thing I love about managing PPC campaigns is that I'm always exploring new features, using new tools, running different reports, etc. In this process I always manage to learn something new. I have used the position preference tool in Google before but I didn't notice that it can be a tricky tool to use and the results can be disappointing. Not because my ads may not … [Read more...] about Why Position Preference May Stop Showing Your Ads
Our Greatest Hits for September!
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! As part of our series on landing pages, John wrote about 5 landing page changes that build authority and boost … [Read more...] about Our Greatest Hits for September!
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Receive the latest PPC Hero articles via your favorite RSS Feed! Here are a few comments from PPC Hero readers! "I just wanted to drop you a line and say thanks for all the useful information. I run ppc campaigns (among pretty much all other marketing responsibilities) for a trading card and sports memorabilia company. … [Read more...] about RSS Feeds
What Not to Do When Managing PPC Campaigns
A few weeks ago I read a short and sweet article from the Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog about "what not to do" with your PPC account. They covered some of the basics like not bidding on keywords for which your site doesn't have content for, don't write misleading ad copy, don't submit irrelevant landing page URLs and on top of all of that - don't send your PPC traffic to low … [Read more...] about What Not to Do When Managing PPC Campaigns
Using Dynamic Keyword Insertion Properly Is An Art Form
Each of the major search engines offers an ad text tool called "dynamic keyword insertion." Keyword insertion is an advanced feature that helps you create more relevant ad texts by automatically inserting a user's search query term into your ad. This tool can be extremely helpful when used properly. However, there is an art form to using dynamic keyword insertion successfully … [Read more...] about Using Dynamic Keyword Insertion Properly Is An Art Form
PPC News Roundup for September 24, 2008
Need a refresher on MSN's dynamic text insertion process? Today's your lucky day. The adCenter blog walks you through the process and purpose of utilizing keyword insertion and dynamic insertion with {parem} functions. It's the worst sound in the PPC world - the "Google slap." MindValley Labs does a great job of breaking down the 4 primary causes of the Google slap and … [Read more...] about PPC News Roundup for September 24, 2008
PPC Hero Landing Page Critique Podcast: 411taxrelief.com
We thought we would wrap up our landing page optimization series by posting a brand new landing page critique podcast! The goal of these podcasts is to give feedback on readers’ landing pages in order to help you make them better! Don’t forget, if you’d like to submit your landing page for our podcast series, you can read the details on how to submit right here. Today, we are … [Read more...] about PPC Hero Landing Page Critique Podcast: 411taxrelief.com
Masters of Business Online – Internet Marketing Event
Masters of Business Online is hosting its second annual event on October 14! We're announcing it here on PPC Hero because 1) if you're in Indiana, this is a must-attend event for anyone even remotely serious about Internet marketing and 2) our president and CEO, Pat East, is speaking on search engine optimization (yes, the folks at PPC Hero know more than just PPC!). "MBO" is … [Read more...] about Masters of Business Online – Internet Marketing Event
Your Keywords Are No Longer “Inactive for Search”
Since the implementation of the Google Quality Score back in July of 2005, Google has received a lot of feedback regarding Quality Score. From this feedback over the past years Google has decided to make a noteworthy change to their Quality Score system. The big change is that keywords are no longer ‘inactive for search' and require a minimum bid to become active again. Now … [Read more...] about Your Keywords Are No Longer “Inactive for Search”