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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
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
June 10, 2010
Melissa Mackey |
Facebook PPC: Finally, True Demographic Targeting! Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft all come up short on demographic targeting, but Facebook PPC ads make it easy for advertisers to market to their target audience. Here's how. |
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
August 6, 2009
Melissa Mackey |
PPC Integration, Part 1: Integrating PPC with E-mail Integrated marketing is nothing new, but in online marketing we often find ourselves working in silos. Integrating PPC with other marketing will create efficiencies across channels and make your marketing dollars work smarter. |
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
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
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
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. |
Entrepreneur
June 2006
Catherine Seda |
Keyword to the Wise Pay-per-click advertising can bring a stampede of shoppers to your site, but make sure your keyword performance is profitable. |
Search Engine Watch
July 21, 2008
David Szetela |
PPC Keyword Sets: Words to the Wise Keyword lists are the bedrock of a successful pay per click ad campaign. Learn how to get started assembling lists that pack the most powerful advertising punch. |
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. |
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
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
October 1, 2009
Melissa Mackey |
PPC Integration: Integrating PPC with Offline Marketing, Part 3 Make the most of those offline marketing dollars by including PPC in your marketing mix. You may not be able to match your offline message exactly in PPC, but there are some best practices. |
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. |
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
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 13, 2011
Roger Barnette |
Facebook Ads & Search: When Worlds Collide Who should advertise on Facebook? Is Facebook more like search or display management? And how can you judge Facebook performance relative to other media channels? |
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
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. |
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
December 4, 2008
David Szetela |
PPC Landing Pages: The End of the Line -- Or the Beginning? Expert PPC advertisers realize that PPC landing pages have more impact on conversion rates and ROI than anything else they can do. |
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 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
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? |
Entrepreneur
January 2007
Catherine Seda |
War of the Words Pay-per-click arbitrage could be driving up the cost of your keywords. |
Search Engine Watch
April 15, 2010
Melissa Mackey |
Has Yahoo Search Marketing Become A 'Dog'? Lower PPC traffic and ongoing issues with the YSM interface continue to frustrate PPC advertisers. |
Search Engine Watch
July 16, 2010
Frank Watson |
Paid Search Success Needs Great E-mail Marketing When developing your PPC strategy, don't forget about e-mail. Use your keyword, ad, and landing page data to improve conversions. |
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
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
April 15, 2011
Joseph Kerschbaum |
Inside the adCenter Quality Score -- Or Should We Call It Competitive Score? Exploring the attributes of the adCenter Quality Score, how these scores affect your performance, and how you can optimize your account for better rankings. |
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
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 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
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. |
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
December 14, 2010
Thi Thumasathit |
Ad Group Structure: A How-to Guide for SEMs Building a solid foundation of the right ad group structure is vital to search engine marketing success. Here's how SEMs can greatly improve the success of their search marketing campaigns. |
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
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. |
Search Engine Watch
June 11, 2009
Melissa Mackey |
Can Bing Really Bring It for PPC Advertisers? Advertisers want to know if Bing can really provide a new experience for searchers, or if it's just Live.com with a cooler name. |
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
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
November 20, 2008
David Szetela |
More from the Mailbag: Quality Score Mysteries and Great PPC Learning Resources David digs into the reader mailbag to discuss Google's quality score issues, and some good beginner resources for learning PPC advertising. |
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
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
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. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
May 2007
Catherine Seda |
Not So Fast . . . Don't just throw more money at pay-per-click - make it work for you. |
