49
articles
2011–2015
on Search Engine Watch
PPC
most covered
Author

Howard Jacobson

2013

Analytics

Tips for Marketing a Sales Call & Free Sample

One important element of any search-based lead generation campaign is the offer – what does your prospect get after you…

04 Feb 2013

Analytics

Email Autoresponder Bridge Building: The Art of Following Up

If you don’t set up your website to capture your visitors’ contact information and follow up with them over time,…

07 Jan 2013

2012

PPC

Why Your PPC Ads Must Meet the True and Positive Needs of Prospects

Because people are most often and powerfully motivated by some combination of fear and greed, we focus their attention on…

12 Dec 2012

PPC

Master Google AdWords in 3 Steps With the 80/20 Rule

When you focus on direct marketing rather than brand advertising, permission rather than interruption marketing, and exact rather than broad…

29 Nov 2012

PPC

How to Niche Your PPC Ads

What do you do if you’re in a market in which all the ads are saying more or less the…

14 Nov 2012

PPC

Writing Search Ads in Context

As an advertiser, your challenge and opportunity is to claim a piece of territory in the search results page fray.…

31 Oct 2012

PPC

Use Empathy to Create Breakthrough PPC Ads

Desperately seeking inspiration or to obliterate writer’s block and create relevant and engaging PPC ads? Creative breakthroughs generally come from…

17 Oct 2012

PPC

Why Quality Score is One of the Least Important AdWords Metrics

Advertisers spend way too much time and energy trying tricks to increase their quality score in the hopes of reducing…

03 Oct 2012

PPC

Search Marketing & the Fine Art of Nexting

Our subconscious has habit of predicting what is just about to happen, or "nexting." So it's critical for search marketers…

19 Sep 2012

PPC

Relevant, Actionable & Timely PPC Feedback: Better Decisions, Better Results

High quality feedback has three essential qualities, summarized in the acronym RAT: it’s relevant to the goal, actionable, and timely.…

05 Sep 2012

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