Whether your goals are to drive sales, leads or sign-ups, increasing traffic to your site is one action you can take to get closer to your goals. Below I’ve described six ways I was able to increase traffic for my...
Basic PPC Strategies
What to Learn from Your Competition
“You don’t have to go to the dark side and cut your competitor’s phone lines or go into a bathroom and write, “For a good time, call [insert competitor’s CEO’s name here].” But if you believe you’re Luke Skywalker and...
5 Steps to Exceeding Your Clients Expectations
Tons of information has been posted on how to increase your CTRs or conversion rates or how to improve your ad text and quality scores. I would like to share how I was able to increase my overall account status...
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Answering a Few Questions for SEOmoz Rebecca
Upon her return from SES, Rebecca of SEOmoz published a blow-by-blow re-cap of her experience. Sounds like she had a great time! I need to get to SES next year. However, I am not posting to lament my absence from...
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Positives of the Negative: Using negative keywords to enhance your campaign’s performance
Using negative keywords in your campaigns allows you to filter out unwanted or irrelevant traffic to your site. Negative keywords eliminate the chances that your ads might show up for a keyword that you don’t offer. Negative keywords can help...
Being #1 Doesn’t Always Mean You Win
This is the first in a series of case studies we will be publishing. These case studies will focus on the work we do for clients. In particular, we will dissect the strategies we implemented to solve certain problems within...
Display & Destination URLs Should Play Nice
Google recently declined some of my ad groups because the display and destination URLs had different domain names. However, the two URLs lead users to the same landing page. The unfortunate side to this is that I received an e-mail...
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We’re Gonna Have Some Fundamentals!
All of us who work in pay-per-click (PPC) advertising look at accounts and stats day in and day out. After a while, we can easily start to lose focus and lose our grip on the basics. Today, I will discuss...
Is Your PPC Campaign Suddenly in a Tailspin? Pull Up!
Sometimes everything is going well with your PPC campaign: your click-through-rate is increasing while your cost-per-click (CPC) is decreasing, your conversions are on the rise, and the ROI gods are smiling down upon you. Then things begin to tank. For...
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