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Campaign strategy and platform updates from the AdWords era of paid search. 1,535 articles
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Using Multichannel Funnels in PPC

While fancy attribution modeling is a reality today, most companies aren’t using it. It’s expensive, and marketers don’t understand it. Multichannel attribution isn’t going away, though, so it’s…

By Melissa Mackey · 02 Apr 2013

PPC

Phone Numbers No Longer Allowed in Google AdWords Ad Text

If you want to include a phone number in your AdWords ad, you'll need to use the call extensions feature. Starting in…

By Danny Goodwin · 22 Mar 2013

Mobile

Google Sells Enhanced Campaign Benefits … But Are SMBs Buying?

Against a backdrop of mixed reactions to the new program, Google's Kesh Patel characterizes the AdWords enhanced campaigns as continued evolution into…

By Michael Boland · 22 Mar 2013

PPC

Quality Score Insights From Microsoft’s Ping Jen

What is the difference between Bing Ads vs. Google AdWords quality score? Jen explains, and also offers his advice about recent vs.…

By John Gagnon · 21 Mar 2013

PPC

Paid Search Beyond Google: Social Media, Bing & Retargeting Ads

With the popularity of AdWords, advertisers can struggle to find other channels that are manageable and effective. These SES New York sessions…

By Lisa Raehsler · 20 Mar 2013

PPC

eBay vs. PPC: Yes, Paid Ads Still Work

An eBay study on the effectiveness of paid search advertising claims that brand keyword ads provide no short-term benefits and negative return…

By Danny Goodwin · 18 Mar 2013

PPC

How to Estimate the Break-Even Point of Paid Search

Is there a correlation between a price of a product or service and its CPC? Do keywords associated with high-priced products cost…

By Uri Bar Joseph · 18 Mar 2013

PPC

How to Avoid Bid Overlap in Google Shopping Product Listing Ads Ad Groups

One easy mistake to make when managing your Google Shopping Product Listing Ads (PLA) campaign is to allow too much overlap between…

By Mary Weinstein · 15 Mar 2013

Analytics

Why Competitive Benchmarking is Integral to Paid Search Success

Benchmarking means analyzing the performance of your competitors’ and industry’s paid search efforts to monitor, adjust, and improve the relative performance of…

By Gregg Hamilton · 14 Mar 2013

PPC

Locate and Analyze Search Term Data in AdWords Faster & Easier

One of the core tactics of PPC campaign optimization is search term analysis. Learn how to locate your raw search term data…

By Joseph Kerschbaum · 12 Mar 2013

Social

Creating a Social Engagement Plan in 4 Steps

A walk-through of the steps that form a simple social engagement plan – listening, engaging, measuring, and learning. You’ll want to think…

By Noran El Shinnawy · 11 Mar 2013

Analytics

Mining Social Data to Create a Content Strategy

You can apply a smorgasbord of social data – from Facebook, Twitter, Google, Pinterest, and tools – in your strategic work to…

By Simon Penson · 11 Mar 2013

Development

4 Important Points to Research Before Launching a New Website

If you’re redesigning or rebuilding your website, a hasty start or too much enthusiasm without research to support it almost always leads…

By Mark Knowles · 11 Mar 2013

Analytics

Top 5 Google Analytics Changes You Might Have Missed

These five changes to Google Analytics that you might have missed can lead to a more efffective and accurate use of the…

By Greg Habermann · 07 Mar 2013

PPC

3 More Big PPC Mistakes Even Pros Make & How to Fix Them

Mistakes aren’t bad … if you learn from them. Not even seasoned PPC professionals are perfect. Here’s hoping you can avoid these…

By Melissa Mackey · 05 Mar 2013

PPC

Enhanced Campaigns: New Sitelink & Call Ad Extensions Feature Rundown

While the Google AdWords enhanced campaigns bring several useful updates, there are also some glaring inefficiencies. We examine how to maintain performance…

By Manny Rivas · 05 Mar 2013

PPC

Your Hidden PPC Prospect: Google

Once you grok the basic Google concept (a win for the searcher is a win for Google), AdWords becomes not easy, but…

By Howard Jacobson · 04 Mar 2013

PPC

5 Tips to Take PPC Ad Testing to the Next Level

Looking to supercharge your ads and get more clicks? Google AdWords Campaign Experiments, dummy ads, audience messaging, AdWords labels, and testing in…

By David Jaeger · 01 Mar 2013

PPC

How to Generate Quality Traffic With Display Advertising

Even if you have been burned with a poor display experience in the past – or were just too scared to try…

By John Lee · 28 Feb 2013

PPC

AdWords Bill of Rights

Advertisers should have the right to choose which features to use, target as granularly as possible, see how our money is being…

By Alex Cohen · 27 Feb 2013

SEO

We Need More Full Stack SEOs

Most successful SEOs operate with one foot in technology, another in marketing and a third in sales. The benefits of being a…

By Nathan Safran · 26 Feb 2013

PPC

Google PLA Ads: 6 Ways to Crush It

As this channel continues to grow, it will become increasingly important to actively optimize your PLA campaigns. Once your PLAs are live…

By Dave Schwartz · 25 Feb 2013

Mobile

3 Essential Mobile Ad Extensions to Get More Clicks from Mobile Devices

Enhanced Campaigns are a game changer. They make it much easier for small, local businesses to get ROI from mobile search ads.…

By Larry Kim · 22 Feb 2013

Mobile

Force Feeding Mobile: Google Continues SMB Courtship

By forcing SMBs into a cloud-based, cross-platform world with Enhanced Campaigns, Google has done SMBs a long-term favor. SMBs must learn how…

By Michael Boland · 22 Feb 2013

PPC

Combine Quality Score & Bing Ads Share of Voice for a Simple Bid Recipe

Quality Score helps prioritize where to bid more, while share of voice gives you a great of idea of where and why…

By John Gagnon · 21 Feb 2013

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