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May 25, 2010
Jeremy Hull |
Paid Search Management: Campaign Organization, Part 2 Google AdWords offers a multitude of targeting options that savvy advertisers should take full advantage of, including network targeting, device targeting, and geo-targeting.   |
Search Engine Watch
April 15, 2011
Jeremy Hull |
Geotargeting: A Great Local Search Option Breaking out separate geotargeted campaigns is a great tactic that will quickly improve the performance of any national Google AdWords account. Here are four steps to help you get started. |
Search Engine Watch
July 9, 2009
Melissa Mackey |
Using Geo-Targeting to Boost Your PPC Results Increased pay-per-click competition combined with low consumer confidence and spending levels often leads to higher cost-per-conversion for advertisers. One way to find new pockets of opportunity is by making use of geo-targeted PPC campaigns. |
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
January 4, 2011
Ryan Woolley |
How to Structure an AdWords Account -- A Practical Guide A walk-through of some of the core components in setting up your Google AdWords account, plus tips on particular AdWords features that can help improve your program's performance. |
Search Engine Watch
August 4, 2009
Carrie Hill |
Targeting your Search Advertising for Success Running successful search advertising campaigns can be a tricky pursuit. Anyone can do it, but being careful and educated about what you're doing is important to seeing a return on your investment. |
Search Engine Watch
August 20, 2009
Jason Tabeling |
Measuring Success -- How Deep Do You Go? How do you define success of your search advertising campaigns? Measuring against profit instead of revenue, and going down to the keyword level, can change the way your PPC campaigns are set up and run. |
Search Engine Watch
July 21, 2010
Joseph Kerschbaum |
Details on How the Yahoo/MSN Merger Will Affect Your PPC Campaign Latest update and tips on the upcoming merger, plus what it means for your adCenter and Yahoo PPC accounts. |
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
October 19, 2010
Thi Thumasathit |
Wag the Dog: The Tail of Bid Management Search marketers need to focus on maximizing relevance and conversion before bid management. Relying exclusively on bid management solutions to drive the success of a search campaign is letting the tail wag the dog. |
Search Engine Watch
March 18, 2011
Joseph Kerschbaum |
New Features Coming to adCenter -- Including Quality Scores There are some great changes coming to the adCenter platform. These new features will streamline the management of adCenter accounts and make life better for search marketers. |
Search Engine Watch
September 25, 2006
Catherine Seda |
Compare & Contrast: Search Ad Program Strategies Google, Microsoft and Yahoo's pay-per-click (PPC) programs are similar, but each have unique features that require different campaign tactics to use effectively. How do you get the maximum advantage from each program? |
Search Engine Watch
May 26, 2010
Joseph Kerschbaum |
How to Move an AdWords Campaign Without Breaking it If you need to make major changes to an AdWords account, such as moving ad groups between campaigns, or even moving campaigns between accounts, here are some tips to ease the process. |
Search Engine Watch
September 15, 2010
Joseph Kerschbaum |
5 Things to Try to With Google AdWords Campaign Experiments (ACE) We review the different types of experiments that can be launched using ACE, and where the feature needs improvement. |
Search Engine Watch
April 27, 2010
Jeremy Hull |
Paid Search Management: Campaign Organization, Part 1 Budgeting is one of the most important factors in your paid search campaigns. Here's how to drive maximum results. Part one of two. |
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
January 7, 2010
Jason Tabeling |
Five Paid Search Resolutions for 2010 Here are five things you should consider doing to improve your paid search campaigns this year, and why they're important. |
Search Engine Watch
October 15, 2010
John Lee |
It's True: Optimizing PPC Campaigns for Quality Score is Still Important Some simple tips for optimizing your campaigns to improve quality score. |
Search Engine Watch
May 19, 2008
David Szetela |
Placement-Targeted Campaigns: Taming the Beast Having trouble with Google AdWords placement-targeted campaigns? Learn the secrets of getting those stalled campaigns off the ground, churning out conversions like the best search campaigns. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
March 30, 2010
Jeremy Hull |
The 4 Keys to Writing a Paid Search Masterpiece How to draft effective paid search ad copy in 70 characters or less. |
Search Engine Watch
January 5, 2009
Ron Jones |
Search Ad Quality Score 101, Part 1 Increasing your quality score for paid search campaigns will help you save money on your bid and increase your rank position. |
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
March 30, 2011
Duncan Parry |
Easier Negative Keyword Management in AdWords Google introduced a useful addition to AdWords that potentially makes managing negative keywords across multiple campaigns a lot easier. Here's how to get the most out of them. |
Search Engine Watch
July 7, 2010
Alex Cohen |
3 Techniques to Avoid the High Cost of Free Search Marketing Tools Don't let people, process, or platforms stand between you and better paid search results. |
Search Engine Watch
August 20, 2010
John Lee |
Make Google AdWords Bidding Features Work for You What works best for your PPC campaign? A look at AdWords' latest feature, Enhanced CPC, plus a recap of manual CPC bidding, automated bidding, and Conversion Optimizer. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
February 2, 2011
Thi Thumasathit |
The Challenge of Parenting Single-Keyword Ad Groups Managing hundreds or thousands of single-keyword ad groups is a big challenge for SEMs. Here's how advertisers can provide "only-child"-style attention to all of their keywords, customized, highly relevant ad copy, and landing pages scaled across their entire product portfolio. |
Search Engine Watch
February 14, 2011
Jeremy Hull |
Rekindle the Romance With Your PPC Campaigns Like relationships, paid search campaigns are complex, dynamic, unpredictable, full of ups and downs, and require a lot of work. Show your PPC campaigns a little extra love starting this Valentine's Day by following these tips. |
InternetNews
March 26, 2009
Michelle Megna |
Google Adds Three Insights for Search Features Google upgrades search trend tool with features designed to help search engine marketing. |
Search Engine Watch
December 17, 2010
Melissa Mackey |
Google AdWords Placement Targeting Campaign Tips A step-by-step guide for advertisers on how to set up placement targeted campaigns. |
Search Engine Watch
January 12, 2009
Ron Jones |
Search Ad Quality Score 101, Part 2 Getting a good quality score requires that you create relevance and continuity from beginning to end of the search experience. Then you need to test, test, test. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
July 12, 2010
Ray Comstock |
The Challenges of Measuring SEO Success, Part 1 Some of the most common challenges of reporting on SEO performance, plus solutions. First of a three-part series. |
Search Engine Watch
October 27, 2008
David Szetela |
Those Mysterious Quality Scores: Fundamentally Simple If you're aware of quality scores at all, you may have a vague notion that the search engines "grade" the "goodness" of your PPC campaigns |
Search Engine Watch
September 16, 2010
Jason Tabeling |
Diagnosing the Impact of Optimization on Your Quality Score These two Google tools can help you understand and track your quality score, as well as the effect of your paid search campaign optimizations. |
Search Engine Watch
November 10, 2010
Joseph Kerschbaum |
How General Keywords Can Influence Brand-Related PPC Purchases Which search queries are leading users to make a purchase? The search funnel reports within AdWords can provide deeper insights into your account's performance. |
Search Engine Watch
May 2, 2011
John Lee |
Bidder Beware: What You Need to Know When Updating Google AdWords Bid Types Max CPC, Enhanced CPC, Automatic Bidding, Conversion Optimizer - each AdWords bidding option carries a distinct set of pros and cons. Here's what you can expect when updating your AdWords bidding options. |
Search Engine Watch
February 4, 2010
Jason Tabeling |
Review your PPC Keywords Search engines are always changing, and so are the ways people search for your products and services. So your keyword list should change as frequently. |
Search Engine Watch
May 28, 2010
John Lee |
Google AdWords Placement Targeting: Tools for Success Tools and strategies for placement targeting that will lead you to greater PPC success. |
Search Engine Watch
November 16, 2010
Thi Thumasathit |
Broad Match: Desperately Seeking Cinderella Solely utilizing broad match can return the equivalent of a long line of ugly stepsisters -- and channel the real Cinderellas to other marketers-in-waiting. Here's how broad match can improve your search campaigns. |
Search Engine Watch
December 20, 2010
Alex Cohen |
A 10 Day Plan to Overhaul Your PPC Campaigns, Part 2 There have been many changes to paid search this year. Here are some tips on how to get started with targeting display ads above the fold, migrating to modified broad match, and testing click-to-call. |
Search Engine Watch
February 22, 2011
Melissa Mackey |
AdWords Campaign Experiments: Details and Pitfalls Campaign Experiments is a great enhancement that can really take your PPC campaigns to the next level, but it also poses many challenges and can be quite confusing. |
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
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
September 2, 2010
Melissa Mackey |
PPC August Roundup: 3 New Features Every PPC Manager Should Try Now Catch up on the latest: Google Reports, Google Campaign Experiments, and Facebook's "Broad Match Targeting." |
Search Engine Watch
September 30, 2010
Melissa Mackey |
Using AdWords Segments To Increase PPC ROI A new and little-known feature called Segments can take your campaign performance to the next level. Here's how. |
Search Engine Watch
November 6, 2008
David Szetela |
The Account Quality Score: Money Pit for the Uninformed In Google AdWords, an ad's Quality Score calculation is based on how well the account's campaigns have performed over time. |
Search Engine Watch
July 8, 2010
Melissa Mackey |
Facebook PPC: Finally, True Demographic Targeting! (Part 2) How to optimize for the best possible ROI in your Facebook PPC campaign. |
Entrepreneur
January 2006
Catherine Seda |
Tangled Web When it comes to your internet marketing campaign, the net is full of potential snags. Emerge unscathed by avoiding these 7 deadly sins. |
