Carefully crafted ad copy will, by design, discourage unqualified prospects from clicking. Let's say that an ecommerce advertiser is using PPC to generate sales. But let's say this same advertiser is also trying to optimize for quality score, and...
Beckman was recently talking to the CMO of a Fortune 500 company, and during an assessment of their online efforts found their strategies were all separated: they had one agency that ran PPC, another agency that ran SEO, a third agency that ran PR...
If you are planning a drastic design change, it may likely over power the subtle type of A/B tests we’d like to do now. PPC Campaigns Research and use competitors’ PPC practices to glean insight into your audience.
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A lot of people say landing pages – and yes, landing pages are important, but they take time to design, iterate, refine, etc. And it doesn't require landing page change. You know it needs work. You know you can improve it.
This way you get the best of both worlds: your URL is unique and eligible for sitelinks, but you're delivering support content within a conversion-focused design. As with any element of PPC campaigns, maintaining as much control as possible is...
Design your clickable targets (links, buttons, icons, form fields, etc.to be touch-friendly – fully and easily operable by fingers and thumbs. Style the link as a button in a complementary color so it stands out (Use CSS3 buttons that don't require...
Responsive Web Design The big topic in the mobile development world is responsive web design, which is device agnostic, using the media query in CSS3 to detect the display size. There are pros and cons to responsive web design to consider.
Ripe opportunities consistently occur in these regionally based service industries (mostly because it becomes less likely that smaller organizations are able to connect bat to ball on great ad copy, web design, keyword targeting, campaign...
Raters are instructed to mark pages as Spam if they believe the webmaster designed the page using deceptive web design techniques. From section 6.1: “If you find a page to be ‘spammy,’ but you don’t feel comfortable saying that the webmaster...
Create a design that has depth and detail. Also, expensive-looking design does not always have to be expensive with a solid outsourcing strategy and clear vision. Let conversions pop from a design perspective.
Designs – Great for graphic design, especially simpler projects like banner ads, logos and business cards. They run design contests, so you have to commit to reviewing the drafts. PPC Hero I was working on my friend’s PPC account and all of the...
Daum, the second biggest search site in Korea, is similar in design. Industry analysts were concerned this would cause Overture’s PPC to plummet and advertisers to run advertising on one portal only. Because local search engines focus a lot on PPC...
Design a welcome/splash tab that dares users to like your brand. First, it’s easier to tie SEO and PPC directly to sales than, say, tweets or Facebook likes. It’s one thing to place social buttons on all your pages.
There is a lot of strategy in how to design and prioritize remarketing lists. From a PPC perspective, however, that presents a challenge as we have to tie together three systems: Our PPC tool Learn about PPC management, keyword research, search...
Server-side rotation, where you send all traffic to a single URL that then redirects traffic to test pages based on the design of your test, is going to offer you the most control and flexibility. One column vs.two or three column design
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I always prefer people to design and develop around a country first and not a language. Finally, subdirectories are your last alternative and can be a quick way to make PPC landing pages or language versions of your site, but may not be truly...
Last month, we covered missed opportunities in Japan, including understanding the search engine market, mobile search, landing page design, paid links, and hosting and top-level domains (TLD). This applies to both search engine/PPC and data...
Missed Opportunity 3: Landing Page Design However, both cultures are far apart when it comes to a design of a page. The festival is packed with sessions covering PPC management, keyword research, search engine optimization (SEO), social media, ad...
