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Search Engine Watch May 3, 2011 Jason Tabeling	Understanding AdWords Average Position: Optimize Your PPC Performance A key piece to your bottom line performance is understanding how average position works and impacts your campaigns. Test and optimize this data in context of your total search campaign to see your total results improve.
Search Engine Watch September 29, 2008 David Szetela	Judging PPC Performance: Focus on Conversions Knowing how and when to make decisions about your PPC campaign's keyword and ad performance can make or break your campaign. Just remember that almost every action you take to improve your PPC ad campaign should be based on conversion data.
Search Engine Watch September 3, 2009 Melissa Mackey	PPC Integration: Integrating PPC with SEO, Part 2 Marketing silos aren't inherently bad, as long as there is communication. Sharing research and results between PPC and SEO teams will help improve both channels.
Search Engine Watch September 22, 2008 David Szetela	PPC Bidding Strategies: Prudence vs. Aggressiveness When it comes to PPC bids, should you start low and build up? Or start high and come down? As with many things, the right strategy for your company depends on your situation and objectives.
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Search Engine Watch January 23, 2009 David Szetela	Google Conversion Optimizer: The Best-Kept Secret in PPC? Google quietly added Conversion Optimizer to every advertiser's AdWords account a few months ago. In a nutshell, it regulates keyword-level bids, promising to deliver as many conversions as possible, at or below a cost-per-conversion you specify.
Search Engine Watch October 6, 2008 David Szetela	Judging PPC Performance: Focus on Conversions, Part 2 Should you delete or pause under-performing keywords - or simply adjust their bid prices? The answer will vary by advertiser, but one thing is constant: decisions about keyword and ad performance should mainly depend on conversion performance.
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Search Engine Watch January 30, 2007 Bryan Eisenberg	Make ROI Your New Year's Resolution Blaming Google for your traffic woes is like a brick and mortar store blaming the city for its traffic. Once they walk through the door of your store, it is your responsibility to convert them.
Search Engine Watch July 16, 2008 Eric Enge	When Being First Isn't Worth It A new report from AdGooroo shows that, generally speaking, for short keywords it's not profitable to bid your way into the high positions. These types of keywords actually lose money in the first and second positions, but longer keywords can do well near the top.
Search Engine Watch March 18, 2010 Melissa Mackey	Boost PPC Performance With Google Conversion Optimizer Find out the best ways to use Google's Conversion Optimizer to boost your paid search performance.
Search Engine Watch August 17, 2004 Shari Thurow	Search Engines and Competitive Research Search engines can tell you a lot about your competition, if you know what to look for. A panel of experts offers tips on profiling your competition and their online marketing efforts.
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Search Engine Watch June 24, 2010 Jason Tabeling	How to Avoid Lost Impression Share Due to Budget Knowing these tricks can ensure that you use the money you have to capture the maximum volume possible for your best performing keywords.
Entrepreneur August 2004 Catherine Seda	In the Click Want all the right people to notice your business? Gone are the days when adding keywords in meta tags to your site produced rankings. You need to make the most of today's hottest marketing method--search engine optimization.
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Search Engine Watch July 25, 2008 Frank Watson	Trademarked Terms: Guaranteed Conversions, Guaranteed Controversy To buy or not to buy trademarked competitor keywords. That's the question search marketers face when tempted with high-converting competitor brand terms.
Search Engine Watch October 13, 2008 David Szetela	Reading the Tea Leaves: Interpreting Keyword Reports Once enough data has accumulated, it's important to run reports and take action based on the data. But what do all those numbers mean, and how should we make adjustments to improve PPC campaign performance?
Search Engine Watch September 3, 2010 Rob Chant	Small Business and Search: Where's the Return? (Part 2) SMBs generally have relatively tight marketing budgets. Here's how you can quickly figure out when you'll see a return on your SEO or PPC investments.
Search Engine Watch November 11, 2008 Mark Jackson	Google AdWords Quality Score -- That's Old-School for SEO By optimizing your Web site for organic search, and building out a bunch of pages for each keyword that you're honestly interested in targeting, you'll likely end up improving your Quality Scores as well.
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Search Engine Watch February 8, 2011 Kyle Costello	3 Key Differences Between adCenter & AdWords Whether you're new to adCenter or just looking to more effectively manage your search campaigns following the Search Alliance, keep these three key differences in mind when managing paid search campaigns in the new, consolidated marketplace.
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Search Engine Watch July 13, 2009 Ron Jones	PPC Bid Management 101 There is a healthy debate out there on whether or not bid management tools are really effective. It comes down to the complexity of your campaigns and whether or not using a bid management tool will help you save time and money.
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Search Engine Watch June 9, 2010 Alex Cohen	The Google Tax: The High Price of Free Search Marketing Tools The limits of Google's conversion based products, and why you just may not want to give Google the keys to your business.
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Search Engine Watch April 8, 2011 Jeff Ferguson	Goodbye, AdWords Position Preference... We Hardly Knew Ye If you were still using the AdWords Position Preference feature, now is the perfect time to re-evaluate your current AdWords strategies.
Search Engine Watch June 22, 2009 Ron Jones	Effective PPC Ad Copy 101, Part 2 We've covered the searcher behavior funnel and tips for writing headlines and descriptions. Now we'll venture beyond the ad copy to discuss methods for testing and fine-tuning your ads to increase performance.
Search Engine Watch March 23, 2011 Melissa Mackey	A 12-Step Program to Improve Your CTR Before a PPC ad can generate a conversion, it needs to generate a click. If you want to improve your CTR, these steps will help you.