John A. Lee is an internet marketing jack-of-all-trades with experience managing PPC, SEO and social media campaigns, but is perfecting his pay-per-click and analytics skills for Clix Marketing clients. John is an avid blogger, writing both professionally for the Clix Marketing PPC Blog and on personal blogs. Before joining Clix Marketing, John worked as Paid Search Manager for Wordstream, Inc. and was a Senior Search Marketing Consultant for Hanapin Marketing in Bloomington, IN where he was instrumental in the success of Hanapin's two search marketing blogs: PPCHero.com and SEOBoy.com. John's writing has also appeared on the Wordstream Blog, ShimonSandler.com and within Website Magazine.
Imagine for a second a PPC advertiser’s worst nightmare: You log into AdWords and your keywords, ads and campaigns all have zeros in the conversion stat column! Worse yet, it isn’t a performance problem – just a tracking problem. Here’s what to do
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