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Paid media advertising tips and insights for PPC, display ads, branded content, and additional paid advertising channels.
Is A PPC Campaign A Good Investment for SEO Firms?
I was in the middle of balancing my SEO firm’s online marketing budget for 2013 when I realized that, over the course of 7 years...
How Not to Run a PPC Campaign, Inspired by eBay’s AdWords #Fail
Earlier this week, the Harvard Business Review blog asked, “Did eBay Just Prove that Paid Search Ads Don’t Work?” Apparently the company turned off their...
Clean Analytics Data for PPC: Part 1 – Self-Referral Traffic
Self-Referring traffic can be a giant pay-per-click data pollution source. Imagine sending your hard earned clicks to your website’s landing page. Along comes ‘Mr. Self-Referral’....
Getting Indexed by Google Using Only PPC: It Could Happen to You
A lot of people write about the difference between SEO and PPC, and how pay per click advertising can come in to strategically boost traffic....
Super Bowl Ads: Are They Really Worthwhile?
The cost of everything seems to be on the increase these days, with Superbowl ads being no exception. Sure if you are like me, Superbowl...
AgileBid: PPC Management Solution for SMBs
AgileBid is flexible, smart and innovative – the first service of its kind generally available for small businesses (SMBs) at a fraction of the cost....
Retail PPC: Geo-target your Distribution to Compete with Amazon Prime
Nearly every eCommerce store competes with Amazon on some level. Regardless of store size, if you’re selling well-established brands, there is a very strong chance...
5 Things PPC May Be Telling You About Your Business (Without You Realizing!)
Embarking on a paid search campaign for your business is a great way of quickly generating sales and leads at an effective cost. You’re able...
4th of July Food and Fireworks Spending: Interesting Stats
Tomorrow is the 4th of July, Independence Day for the United States of America! I thought it might be good to share some information on...
Tweak and Optimize Your PPC Ads
There are two things that you can do when optimizing your pay-per-click ad: Overhaul your ad copy or tweak it. However, there are those who...
Is It Time to Rescue Your PPC Campaigns?
Small businesses often have a number of different campaigns they are working on in order to drum up business. One such campaign is the pay-per-click...
Avoid an Uphill Climb with Your Company’s PPC Internet Marketing
If your company’s pay-per-click Internet marketing campaigns are getting little to no traction, what do you plan to do about it? As a small business...
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How Display Drives Search [Infographic]
Pretarget’s infographic, Display Drives Search, could be very helpful and education to those that are new to display advertising. The infographic looks at how closely...
PPC Salary Guide via Infographic
ONWARD search created a great infographic called PPC Jobs Salary Guide that breaks down the “best job markets, the most in-demand job titles, and salary ranges...
Creating an “Opportunity Report” – PPC
Creating an “Opportunity Report” to Show How to Get More Out of Your Accounts A lot of marketing managers and C-level executives I run across...
Google Replaces PPC Ads with Google Plus Content for Selected Queries
Last evening, Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land reported that Google is now highlighting “Latest Posts” from Google+ pages and profiles in the search results....
An Infographic To Help You with Valentine’s Day Flowers
Happy Valentine’s Day from SEJ! I was looking at all the Valentine’s infographics and found one that I thought could be very helpful for many...
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Amazon Rakes in the Money With Free Shipping [INFOGRAPHIC]
Shipping charges are a huge part of my decision process when buying online. The infographic below reminds me of me :-). I leave a lot...
A PPC Marketer’s New Year’s Resolutions for 2012
This year, I resolve to… 1. Get Organized Is your idea of “keyword research” just a bunch of keywords jammed into in an excel? Effective...
Google’s Performance Presents Case for PPC Opportunities
Industry research firm comScore released their search engine market share report for the month of October. The report continues to illustrate what consumers already know....
PPC Optimization – Organize Into Tightly Themed AdGroups
So today I am organizing a PPC account. This is an account that I took over from another agency. The account has four different Campaigns with around...
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How Does the AdWords Auction Work? [Infographic]
Wordstream released an infographic called “How Does the AdWords Auction Work?”. If you are new to the AdWords game this information could be very helpful...
Title: Top PPC post for October 2011
Below are 7 fantastic PPC articles I found in October. Each title is a link to the article and I included a summary of what...
DFP Small Business Maximising your ROI
This post seeks to touch on another free Google platform provided that seeks to reduce your reliance on just Google AdSense or Affiliate banners for...
PPC for Your Small Business – SMB PPC EBook Review
Editor’s Note: We created a free guide on the dos and don’ts of managing your PPC account manager or agency. Download it now! I harp on it...
How to Train PPC Copywriters: Five Pay-Per Click Copywriting Best Practices
I’ve noticed recently that more and more people with writing backgrounds (ie journalists, English majors, etc.) are landing in direct response online copywriting jobs. Without...
PPC Tool Review: QueryMiner Free Negative Keyword Tool
I’ve blogged on more than one occasion about a major issue I have with many of Google’s AdWords features and settings: the ROI focus tends...
My PPC Campaign Isn’t Driving any Traffic: What Next?
If you’re a PPC campaign manager you’re probably at least somewhat familiar with this sequence: Do a painstaking amount of keyword research and segmentation, carefully...
How to Get Facebook Fans: The Easy Way and The Hard Way
Have you ever found an easy and superior way to do something, then watched in bafflement as people insist on doing it the hard way?...
Google AdSense Rolls Out New Interface
Google AdSense has rolled out a major interface change that they have been testing for a good month or so, which has the new ability...