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Search Engine Watch
December 21, 2010
Alex Cohen |
A 10 Day Plan to Overhaul Your PPC Campaigns, Part 3 A guide to some of this year's new ad formats. Here are some tips on targeting image ads on Google Image Search, adding seller ratings, launching Product Listing Ads, and including Video Extensions.   |
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
July 23, 2010
John Lee |
Claim Your SERP Real Estate With Google's Product Extension Ads A quick guide on how advertisers can leverage Google's Product Extension feature within AdWords and display product images and details in line with your PPC ads. |
Search Engine Watch
January 18, 2011
Alex Cohen |
The Dawn of Paid Search Without Keywords We've seen dramatic departures in every step of how you advertise on Google. These changes underlie some of the key trends that will shape paid search this year. |
Search Engine Watch
February 10, 2010
Alex Cohen |
The Rise of Universal Paid Search 2009 fundamentally changed the balance between organic and paid search and introduced non-text ads to mainstream advertisers. 2010 will go even further. |
Search Engine Watch
November 29, 2010
Greg Habermann |
Google's Holiday Gift: Product Listing Ads Ready to try out the new AdWords Product Listing Ads? A guide to the key points advertisers should be aware of. |
Search Engine Watch
October 27, 2010
Alex Cohen |
3 Holiday PPC Tips for Black Friday (And Beyond) Fine-tuning your text ad to answer the questions of shoppers is what will set you apart this holiday season. These tips will help you increase your relevance, improve click-through rate, and answer the most profitable holiday questions. |
Search Engine Watch
February 8, 2011
Jason Tabeling |
Measuring Free Clicks in AdWords Advertisers: Take advantage of free click ads to extend your share of voice on the page, improve the consumer experience, and determine the value to your overall search program. |
Search Engine Watch
October 29, 2010
Ryan Woolley |
Secrets to Paid Search Success Revealed, Part 1 Ads designed to be more attractive to a searcher and more relevant to the search query can yield wildly profitable paid search campaigns. |
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
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
April 14, 2010
Alex Cohen |
Google Wants Your Profit Margin, Should You Give It To Them? Google is systematically trying to remove two barriers in paid search to maximize their profit. Here's how it impacts your business, and how you can respond. Part one of two. |
Search Engine Watch
January 12, 2011
Greg Habermann |
Google Product Listing Ads vs. Text Ads The results of Product Listing Ad tests. How did they stack up against the common Google text ads? An e-commerce case study. |
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
July 15, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Google Simplifies & Loosens Requirements for AdWords Google is making changes to its AdWords program intended to provide advertisers with more control over campaigns while potentially improving relevance for users. |
Search Engine Watch
June 25, 2010
John Lee |
One Ad vs. Many: Understanding Placement Targeted Ads on Google's Content Network Using placement targeting gives your ad a huge advantage for increasing click-through rate and conversions. Here's how you can ensure your placement targeted ads have a fighting chance to perform. |
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
February 15, 2011
Alex Cohen |
PPC vs. SEO: Paid Search as Your Organic Competitor The balance between paid and organic results in the SERPs in shifting. Paid listings may increasingly get more clicks at the expense of organic listings. |
Search Engine Watch
January 16, 2011
Frank Watson |
Session-Based Ads: Smarter Than the Average Ad or a Boo-Boo? Session-based broad match can't be controlled by AdWords advertisers, and some users aren't happy about the wasted ad spend. Is Google losing its focus on its core products? |
Search Engine Watch
November 12, 2010
John Lee |
PPC Managers Rejoice: AdWords and adCenter Desktop Tools Get a Facelift An overview of some new features now available in Google AdWords Editor and adCenter Desktop, including mobile targeting, display, and remarketing, and increased visibility and functionality. |
Search Engine Watch
July 14, 2008
David Szetela |
Creating PPC Campaigns: the 'Live or Die' Settings Think you know the right way to set up a new PPC campaign? Paying close attention to the details many advertisers miss can position you for success and help you avoid common pitfalls. |
Search Engine Watch
March 23, 2009
Ron Jones |
Setting up PPC Campaigns 101, Part 2 Don't be afraid to try something different to see if it will make an improvement. PPC management is all about dialing it in and then making small methodical course corrections to squeeze out a little more performance when you can. |
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. |
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
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
May 13, 2010
Melissa Mackey |
Expand Your PPC Reach With Google's Interest-Based Advertising Interest-based advertising isn't new -- display networks have offered similar programs for years. However, there are a few big differences between those networks and Google's product. |
InternetNews
June 22, 2009
Michelle Megna |
Yahoo, Google Rev Up New Ad Products Search companies roll out new advertising platforms as the online ad industry malaise continues. |
New Architect
February 2003
Amit Asaravala |
What Advertisers Want Selecting high-performance ad formats for your site |
Search Engine Watch
July 9, 2010
Dan Yomtobian |
Remarketing: Online's Misunderstood Conversion Tool Despite unfounded or exaggerated fears, remarketing actually works! Get educated on retargeting and turn your prospects into customers. |
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
June 16, 2008
David Szetela |
Google Mobile Advertising on the Content Network Creating a mobile ad campaign that displays banner ads on Google's mobile content network can be ideal for businesses that rely on phone calls to start or close a sale. |
Search Engine Watch
April 1, 2011
John Lee |
5 Ways to Push Through the Proverbial PPC Wall Ideas for how you can press on and find new and exciting ways to maximize your PPC performance when you feel there is nowhere else to go. |
Search Engine Watch
May 21, 2010
Alex Cohen |
Why Google Wants to Eliminate Bidding In Exchange for Your Profits How Google is removing CPC and bidding from paid search and the implications of these changes. |
Search Engine Watch
May 12, 2008
David Szetela |
Google AdWords Editor a Great Tool for Content -- and for Yahoo/Microsoft! Time is money, and these two tips will free up many moneymaking hours for you. See how Google has created a tool that will increase ad revenue for itself, but for Yahoo and Microsoft as well. |
Search Engine Watch
April 12, 2011
Alex Cohen |
How Social Media Affects Paid Search As AdWords and +1 evolves, Google will monetize not just what you do, but who you are. We've only seen the tip of the iceberg of how social media will impact paid search advertising. |
Search Engine Watch
May 20, 2010
Price Glomski |
Image Ads in Search - Yep, They Help Advertisers can increase revenues with visually rich search engine marketing. A look at some opportunities and strategies in Google's plus box and Sitelinks, and Yahoo's Rich Ads in Search. |
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
May 10, 2011
Alex Cohen |
Slim Down Your CPCs With 3 Compound Metrics Paid search is a lot like nutrition: there's an excess of data, but a big shortage in optimization. Here's how to reduce PPC data complexity and make profitable decisions. |
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. |
InternetNews
February 24, 2009
David Needle |
Yahoo to Tie More Search Behavior into Ads Yahoo announced major enhancements to its display advertising services today designed to make the ads more relevant to Web surfers and how searches are conducted. |
Search Engine Watch
March 10, 2011
Paul Burani |
7 Ways to Counter Rising CPCs Low-tech solutions to stave off hyperinflation within the paid search economy. |
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. |
New Architect
May 2002
Michael Hurwicz |
when small is better How Google's AdWords system is changing online advertising... |
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
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. |
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
February 18, 2011
Joseph Kerschbaum |
Automate Your AdWords Management with Automated Rules, Part 2 A walkthrough of the numerous requirements/criteria that you can use when setting up automated rules. Also, a review of the rules you can use at other levels of your account: ad group, keyword, and ad variation. |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Up Close With Google AdWords Forget the hype about what the new cost-per-click AdWords program means for Google, in terms of competing with Overture. What's in the program for advertisers, and how does the cost per click pricing fit in with the existing cost per impression ads? Let's take a look... |
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
July 28, 2010
Kevin Gibbons |
7 Golden Rules for Paid Search Copy Using these seven tips will help get your PPC ads some real attention and get the right kind of clicks. |
