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Search Engine Watch April 19, 2011 Melissa Mackey	5 Often-Overlooked PPC Tips for Beginners If you're a PPC newbie, here are some basic strategies to get the best results from your PPC campaigns right away.
Search Engine Watch February 12, 2009 David Szetela	One PPC Landing Page, Infinite Faces Creating custom landing pages for PPC ads can help boost your conversion rates by percentage points.
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 September 28, 2006 Catherine Seda	Search Arbitrage: Good or Evil? With a bit of creativity, you can use arbitrage to profit from price differences in search engine advertising programs.
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Search Engine Watch January 21, 2010 Melissa Mackey	Put your PPC on a Diet Small changes over time make the difference, not a bunch of big changes all at once. If you're looking for long-term, sustained paid search success, here's what you need to do.
Search Engine Watch February 3, 2011 Stephen Cobb	Anchor Your Landing Pages and Convert Wayward Clickers Your chances of converting the traffic you drive to your site will increase if you can keep visitors focused on your conversion message. A landing page anchor is designed to do just that.
Search Engine Watch October 29, 2009 Melissa Mackey	Popular PPC Pitfalls, and How to Prevent Them Three of the most common search advertising pitfalls can be avoided. Here's how.
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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.
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Search Engine Watch July 25, 2006 Jennifer Slegg	Analyzing the Google AdWords Landing Page Algorithm Google's pricing for AdWords includes a component that looks at the content of landing pages, and a recent change that has caused price increases is proving controversial in the search marketing community.
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Search Engine Watch August 18, 2004 Shari Thurow	Creating Compelling Search Engine Ads and Landing Pages Effective search engine advertising goes far beyond simply bidding on keywords. With both ads and landing pages, you have scant seconds to capture the imagination and clicks of a searcher.
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Search Engine Watch October 20, 2008 David Szetela	Measuring a Text Ad's Effectiveness Improving ad text leads to better CTR and quality score, which can help drive your CPC down, and/or let you buy more clicks per dollar. So it has a direct impact on your campaign's ability to increase the number of profitable sales.
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Search Engine Watch July 28, 2008 David Szetela	More Killer Keyword Techniques: Personas and Buckets Learn how to use personas and bucket lists to create huge killer keyword lists like the pros.
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Search Engine Watch December 9, 2008 Carrie Hill	PPC & SEO -- Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together Put peanut butter and chocolate together and you get something that transcends each of the individual ingredients. The same effect can be had when you combine paid search advertising with search engine optimization efforts.
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