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Search Engine Watch April 19, 2011 Melissa Mackey |
5 Often-Overlooked PPC Tips for Beginners If you're a PPC newbie, here are some basic strategies to get the best results from your PPC campaigns right away. |
Search Engine Watch October 19, 2010 Thi Thumasathit |
Wag the Dog: The Tail of Bid Management Search marketers need to focus on maximizing relevance and conversion before bid management. Relying exclusively on bid management solutions to drive the success of a search campaign is letting the tail wag the dog. |
Search Engine Watch October 13, 2010 Joseph Kerschbaum |
Using Conversion Funnels to Improve Your Conversion Rate, Part 1 How you can apply data from Search Funnel reports in AdWords to improve your conversion rate and overall PPC performance. |
Search Engine Watch September 29, 2008 David Szetela |
Judging PPC Performance: Focus on Conversions Knowing how and when to make decisions about your PPC campaign's keyword and ad performance can make or break your campaign. Just remember that almost every action you take to improve your PPC ad campaign should be based on conversion data. |
Search Engine Watch June 23, 2009 Carrie Hill |
Taking the Fear Out of Web Analytics for Your Small Business Do you have Web analytics installed on your small business Web site? If not, you should. How will you know how your Web site is performing if you aren't measuring the right data? |
Search Engine Watch February 3, 2011 Stephen Cobb |
Anchor Your Landing Pages and Convert Wayward Clickers Your chances of converting the traffic you drive to your site will increase if you can keep visitors focused on your conversion message. A landing page anchor is designed to do just that. |
Search Engine Watch January 30, 2007 Bryan Eisenberg |
Make ROI Your New Year's Resolution Blaming Google for your traffic woes is like a brick and mortar store blaming the city for its traffic. Once they walk through the door of your store, it is your responsibility to convert them. |
Entrepreneur November 2009 Mikal E. Belicove |
Graceful Landing A well-conceived landing page sends the right signals about your company and helps customers navigate toward the sale. |
Search Engine Watch June 22, 2009 Ron Jones |
Effective PPC Ad Copy 101, Part 2 We've covered the searcher behavior funnel and tips for writing headlines and descriptions. Now we'll venture beyond the ad copy to discuss methods for testing and fine-tuning your ads to increase performance. |
Search Engine Watch September 15, 2008 David Szetela |
Show Me the Money: Bidding for Profitability Setting ad group bid prices at the beginning of a campaign is one of the more challenging tasks for many PPC advertisers. The answers are a snap once you know the fundamentals. |
Search Engine Watch February 14, 2007 John Tawadros |
Data Mining: The Heart of Analysis What do you do when the needle won't move anymore - when you can't invest another dollar in your paid search program without diminishing your returns? The answer lies in the data. |
CRM September 3, 2015 Jessica Hawthorne-Castro |
With Campaign Metrics, You Need to Go Beyond the Basics Here are four metrics to make your decision making more data-driven -- and enhance profits. |
Search Engine Watch January 5, 2011 Stephen Cobb |
Will 2011 be the Year of Conversion Rate Optimization? The business logic behind conversion rate optimization is compelling, yet in 2010 many businesses managed not to do much about CRO, perhaps distracted by trends like social media. But 2011 will be the year that CRO finally has something to crow about. |
Search Engine Watch December 4, 2008 David Szetela |
PPC Landing Pages: The End of the Line -- Or the Beginning? Expert PPC advertisers realize that PPC landing pages have more impact on conversion rates and ROI than anything else they can do. |
Search Engine Watch March 18, 2010 Melissa Mackey |
Boost PPC Performance With Google Conversion Optimizer Find out the best ways to use Google's Conversion Optimizer to boost your paid search performance. |
Search Engine Watch August 18, 2004 Shari Thurow |
Creating Compelling Search Engine Ads and Landing Pages Effective search engine advertising goes far beyond simply bidding on keywords. With both ads and landing pages, you have scant seconds to capture the imagination and clicks of a searcher. |
Search Engine Watch March 8, 2011 Jason Tabeling |
Keyword Phrase Value: Click-Throughs vs. Conversions Even with a worse search experience and less targeted ads, the consumer mindset is so much closer to conversion that long tail terms are worth the effort. |
Search Engine Watch October 13, 2008 David Szetela |
Reading the Tea Leaves: Interpreting Keyword Reports Once enough data has accumulated, it's important to run reports and take action based on the data. But what do all those numbers mean, and how should we make adjustments to improve PPC campaign performance? |
Search Engine Watch August 20, 2010 Marc Poirier |
Google AdWords Enhanced CPC vs. Conversion Optimizer Who should use which feature and why? Early reactions on which tool is better for search marketers. |
Search Engine Watch January 9, 2009 Gregg Stewart |
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics Over the past year, I've been in numerous meetings with advertisers, agencies, and online media vendors, and I'm often amazed at the confusion surrounding how local search campaign analytics are reported, and sometimes twisted, to create a desired story. |
Search Engine Watch August 19, 2009 Tim Ash |
The Art of the Landing Page: 7 Tips For Increasing Conversions Landing page optimization and testing can have a dramatic impact on your online marketing profitability. But even without testing you can quickly eliminate several common mistakes that can instantly skyrocket conversion rates. |
Search Engine Watch July 8, 2010 Melissa Mackey |
Facebook PPC: Finally, True Demographic Targeting! (Part 2) How to optimize for the best possible ROI in your Facebook PPC campaign. |
Search Engine Watch January 23, 2009 David Szetela |
Google Conversion Optimizer: The Best-Kept Secret in PPC? Google quietly added Conversion Optimizer to every advertiser's AdWords account a few months ago. In a nutshell, it regulates keyword-level bids, promising to deliver as many conversions as possible, at or below a cost-per-conversion you specify. |
Search Engine Watch January 24, 2007 Patricia Hursh |
Don't Click Here! Should You Pre-Qualify Clickers? B-to-B advertisers often pay high click costs to reach a very small and very specific group of potential buyers. More than anyone, they need to be sure the right people are clicking on their ads. |
Search Engine Watch January 4, 2011 Ryan Woolley |
How to Structure an AdWords Account -- A Practical Guide A walk-through of some of the core components in setting up your Google AdWords account, plus tips on particular AdWords features that can help improve your program's performance. |
Search Engine Watch June 9, 2010 Alex Cohen |
The Google Tax: The High Price of Free Search Marketing Tools The limits of Google's conversion based products, and why you just may not want to give Google the keys to your business. |
Search Engine Watch June 11, 2008 Tim Ash |
Uncovering Site Problems for Landing Page Optimization, Part 1 How do you find problems with your landing page hidden in your test results? Instead of waiting only for good news, filter it out instead. Accentuate the negative. Focus on problems and things that are askew. |
Search Engine Watch December 9, 2008 Carrie Hill |
PPC & SEO -- Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together Put peanut butter and chocolate together and you get something that transcends each of the individual ingredients. The same effect can be had when you combine paid search advertising with search engine optimization efforts. |
Search Engine Watch March 30, 2010 Jeremy Hull |
The 4 Keys to Writing a Paid Search Masterpiece How to draft effective paid search ad copy in 70 characters or less. |
Search Engine Watch June 2, 2010 Kevin Gibbons |
How Is Your SEO Strategy Really Performing? Rankings, traffic, and CTR can be misleading. Here's how to avoid placing too much confidence in the wrong measurements. |
Search Engine Watch November 3, 2010 Ryan Woolley |
Secrets to Paid Search Success Revealed, Part 4 Measurement and tracking is at the heart of any paid search campaign. Here's how to figure out where to focus your time and money. |
Search Engine Watch May 6, 2010 Marty Weintraub |
Google Analytics, Conversion Tracking & Single Segment Reporting Power There's awesome power in the simplicity of surfing Google Analytics, only studying a single conversion setting. The only limitation is your imagination. |
Search Engine Watch February 25, 2011 Ryan Woolley |
Conversion Rate, A Most Powerful Lever Indeed Some best practices and a guide on how to execute an A/B split serve landing page test. |
Search Engine Watch January 12, 2009 Ron Jones |
Search Ad Quality Score 101, Part 2 Getting a good quality score requires that you create relevance and continuity from beginning to end of the search experience. Then you need to test, test, test. |
Search Engine Watch October 27, 2004 Grant Crowell |
Search Online, Buy Offline: How to Tell? Many people do extensive product research online but end up buying from brick and mortar retailers. How can you track the effectiveness of search marketing campaigns that result in offline purchases? |
InternetNews January 14, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
Search Ads Reap Big Rewards Doubleclick reports that search advertising revenues grew by more than 300 percent in the third quarter. |
Search Engine Watch May 3, 2011 Jason Tabeling |
Understanding AdWords Average Position: Optimize Your PPC Performance A key piece to your bottom line performance is understanding how average position works and impacts your campaigns. Test and optimize this data in context of your total search campaign to see your total results improve. |
Search Engine Watch January 28, 2011 Ryan Woolley |
How to Execute a Flawless Ad Copy Test in AdWords Ad copy strategies and the steps required to confidently execute the test within Google AdWords. |
Search Engine Watch February 2, 2011 Thi Thumasathit |
The Challenge of Parenting Single-Keyword Ad Groups Managing hundreds or thousands of single-keyword ad groups is a big challenge for SEMs. Here's how advertisers can provide "only-child"-style attention to all of their keywords, customized, highly relevant ad copy, and landing pages scaled across their entire product portfolio. |
CRM July 1, 2007 Colin Beasty |
Business Problem: A Company's Marketing Department Cannot Effectively Track and Manage Campaigns Across Multiple Search Engines. Tech Solution: Search engine marketing tools. |
PC Magazine April 19, 2006 Matthew D. Sarrel |
Your Site's Stats Now that you have a Web site, it's time to learn how to analyze the traffic that your visitors generate. |
Search Engine Watch December 14, 2010 Thi Thumasathit |
Ad Group Structure: A How-to Guide for SEMs Building a solid foundation of the right ad group structure is vital to search engine marketing success. Here's how SEMs can greatly improve the success of their search marketing campaigns. |
Search Engine Watch February 24, 2005 Heather Lloyd-Martin |
Forecasting Paid Search Traffic Despite the hype, being #1 in paid search results may not provide your company the desired bang for your marketing buck. Intelligently optimizing a paid search budget involves far more than setting random bid prices and guessing at returns. |
Search Engine Watch November 10, 2010 Joseph Kerschbaum |
How General Keywords Can Influence Brand-Related PPC Purchases Which search queries are leading users to make a purchase? The search funnel reports within AdWords can provide deeper insights into your account's performance. |
Search Engine Watch May 27, 2010 Jason Tabeling |
Search Campaigns Boost Phone Calls to Businesses As more users surf the web via their phones, making a phone call becomes a more likely solution to their conversion demands. This creates a larger importance for unique campaign phone number call tracking and click-to-call placements. |
Search Engine Watch December 10, 2009 Jason Tabeling |
How Will Mobile Search Impact Your Paid Campaigns? Monitoring search volume data is key to determine how to best optimize your PPC campaigns. |
Search Engine Watch December 17, 2010 Melissa Mackey |
Google AdWords Placement Targeting Campaign Tips A step-by-step guide for advertisers on how to set up placement targeted campaigns. |
Search Engine Watch May 26, 2010 Joseph Kerschbaum |
How to Move an AdWords Campaign Without Breaking it If you need to make major changes to an AdWords account, such as moving ad groups between campaigns, or even moving campaigns between accounts, here are some tips to ease the process. |
Search Engine Watch July 7, 2010 Alex Cohen |
3 Techniques to Avoid the High Cost of Free Search Marketing Tools Don't let people, process, or platforms stand between you and better paid search results. |
CRM October 1, 2005 Alexandra DeFelice |
Happy Holiday Marketing Marketers should prepare now for the upcoming holiday season online, testing email campaigns and looking at last year's holiday successes and failures. |