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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
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
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
April 15, 2011
Joseph Kerschbaum |
Inside the adCenter Quality Score -- Or Should We Call It Competitive Score? Exploring the attributes of the adCenter Quality Score, how these scores affect your performance, and how you can optimize your account for better rankings. |
Search Engine Watch
March 23, 2011
Melissa Mackey |
A 12-Step Program to Improve Your CTR Before a PPC ad can generate a conversion, it needs to generate a click. If you want to improve your CTR, these steps will help you. |
Search Engine Watch
November 6, 2008
David Szetela |
The Account Quality Score: Money Pit for the Uninformed In Google AdWords, an ad's Quality Score calculation is based on how well the account's campaigns have performed over time. |
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
January 5, 2009
Ron Jones |
Search Ad Quality Score 101, Part 1 Increasing your quality score for paid search campaigns will help you save money on your bid and increase your rank position. |
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
October 15, 2010
John Lee |
It's True: Optimizing PPC Campaigns for Quality Score is Still Important Some simple tips for optimizing your campaigns to improve quality score. |
Search Engine Watch
August 18, 2010
Joseph Kerschbaum |
How to Review Keyword Ideas Presented by the Opportunities Tab in AdWords Best practices for reviewing the keyword suggestions contained within this often overlooked tool within AdWords. |
Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2010
Jason Tabeling |
Five Paid Search Resolutions for 2010 Here are five things you should consider doing to improve your paid search campaigns this year, and why they're important. |
Search Engine Watch
August 4, 2008
David Szetela |
Awesome Ad Groups: Small is Good Trying to fit all your keywords in one ad group is not going to get you the results you want. Get those double-digit click-through rates with small, tightly-themed ad groups. |
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
September 8, 2008
David Szetela |
Killer PPC Ads: The Final Word These simple guidelines will pave the way to pay-per-click nirvana: double-digit click-through-rates. |
Search Engine Watch
June 15, 2009
Ron Jones |
Effective PPC Ad Copy 101, Part 1 One of the most important factors of a successful PPC campaign is writing successful ad copy. You can spend a good deal of time on other aspects of your campaign but skimp on the ad copy and you might not get the results you're looking for. |
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
September 16, 2010
Jason Tabeling |
Diagnosing the Impact of Optimization on Your Quality Score These two Google tools can help you understand and track your quality score, as well as the effect of your paid search campaign optimizations. |
Search Engine Watch
November 16, 2010
Thi Thumasathit |
Broad Match: Desperately Seeking Cinderella Solely utilizing broad match can return the equivalent of a long line of ugly stepsisters -- and channel the real Cinderellas to other marketers-in-waiting. Here's how broad match can improve your search campaigns. |
Search Engine Watch
October 6, 2008
David Szetela |
Judging PPC Performance: Focus on Conversions, Part 2 Should you delete or pause under-performing keywords - or simply adjust their bid prices? The answer will vary by advertiser, but one thing is constant: decisions about keyword and ad performance should mainly depend on conversion performance. |
Search Engine Watch
October 20, 2008
David Szetela |
Measuring a Text Ad's Effectiveness Improving ad text leads to better CTR and quality score, which can help drive your CPC down, and/or let you buy more clicks per dollar. So it has a direct impact on your campaign's ability to increase the number of profitable sales. |
Search Engine Watch
October 29, 2010
Ryan Woolley |
Secrets to Paid Search Success Revealed, Part 1 Ads designed to be more attractive to a searcher and more relevant to the search query can yield wildly profitable paid search campaigns. |
Search Engine Watch
October 27, 2008
David Szetela |
Those Mysterious Quality Scores: Fundamentally Simple If you're aware of quality scores at all, you may have a vague notion that the search engines "grade" the "goodness" of your PPC campaigns |
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
July 15, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Google Simplifies & Loosens Requirements for AdWords Google is making changes to its AdWords program intended to provide advertisers with more control over campaigns while potentially improving relevance for users. |
Search Engine Watch
August 18, 2008
David Szetela |
Tightly-Themed Ad Groups: The PPC Pro Advantage Small, tight ad groups are the key to getting double-digit click-through rates. See exactly how the pros break down long keyword lists into powerful ad group packages. |
Search Engine Watch
March 23, 2009
Ron Jones |
Setting up PPC Campaigns 101, Part 2 Don't be afraid to try something different to see if it will make an improvement. PPC management is all about dialing it in and then making small methodical course corrections to squeeze out a little more performance when you can. |
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
August 11, 2008
David Szetela |
Dynamic Keyword Insertion: Friend or Foe? Dynamic Keyword Insertion can sometimes help improve ad campaign results. But you'd be surprised how often it's a bad move. Indiscriminate use of DKI can result in generic ad copy and diluted messages that fail to match the searcher's intent or need. |
Search Engine Watch
May 10, 2011
Alex Cohen |
Slim Down Your CPCs With 3 Compound Metrics Paid search is a lot like nutrition: there's an excess of data, but a big shortage in optimization. Here's how to reduce PPC data complexity and make profitable decisions. |
Search Engine Watch
November 11, 2008
Mark Jackson |
Google AdWords Quality Score -- That's Old-School for SEO By optimizing your Web site for organic search, and building out a bunch of pages for each keyword that you're honestly interested in targeting, you'll likely end up improving your Quality Scores as well. |
Search Engine Watch
September 3, 2009
Melissa Mackey |
PPC Integration: Integrating PPC with SEO, Part 2 Marketing silos aren't inherently bad, as long as there is communication. Sharing research and results between PPC and SEO teams will help improve both channels. |
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
September 25, 2006
Catherine Seda |
Compare & Contrast: Search Ad Program Strategies Google, Microsoft and Yahoo's pay-per-click (PPC) programs are similar, but each have unique features that require different campaign tactics to use effectively. How do you get the maximum advantage from each program? |
InternetNews
May 21, 2009
Michelle Megna |
Growing Ad Networks Shaking Up Online Ad Spend More online ad dollars are going to ad networks, and the top dog isn't Google or Yahoo. |
Search Engine Watch
July 20, 2010
Jeremy Hull |
Paid Search Keyword Building the Smart Way! This six-step process for building a keyword list will help you craft effective ad groups and landing pages for PPC success. |
Search Engine Watch
July 23, 2010
Marc Poirier |
Real-time Bidding: The SEM Perspective Get ready people. Real-time bidding works a great deal better than old school display. |
Search Engine Watch
October 27, 2010
Alex Cohen |
3 Holiday PPC Tips for Black Friday (And Beyond) Fine-tuning your text ad to answer the questions of shoppers is what will set you apart this holiday season. These tips will help you increase your relevance, improve click-through rate, and answer the most profitable holiday questions. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
March 1, 2007
Alex Porter |
Alternative Media: Search-Engine Marketing: Click, Click ... Are You There? Pharma marketers turn to pay-per-click advertising to boost their product's reach. |
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
September 15, 2010
Joseph Kerschbaum |
5 Things to Try to With Google AdWords Campaign Experiments (ACE) We review the different types of experiments that can be launched using ACE, and where the feature needs improvement. |
Search Engine Watch
October 29, 2009
Melissa Mackey |
Popular PPC Pitfalls, and How to Prevent Them Three of the most common search advertising pitfalls can be avoided. Here's how. |
Search Engine Watch
October 1, 2009
Melissa Mackey |
PPC Integration: Integrating PPC with Offline Marketing, Part 3 Make the most of those offline marketing dollars by including PPC in your marketing mix. You may not be able to match your offline message exactly in PPC, but there are some best practices. |
Entrepreneur
June 2004
Catherine Seda |
Taken Out of Context? You might be part of a contextual ad program without even knowing it. Visit the search engines' sites to learn more about contextual advertising and how to manage it. |
Search Engine Watch
December 15, 2008
Ron Jones |
Keyword Discovery 101, Part 2 Our keyword discovery quest continues, with a focus on analyzing and refining your initial keyword list. We'll also look at some of the keyword tools on the Internet, some of which might help you with this process. |
InternetNews
April 14, 2010 |
Online Advertisers Again Paying Top Dollar New signs of life and activity are found in online advertising along with hints of what works for Web marketers, both good news for the resurgent online ad sector and small business. |
InternetNews
March 13, 2008 |
A New Ad Service For Google: Report Google will introduce a new service that Web publishers can use to manage their online ad sales and serve up ads each time a consumer pulls up a Web page |
Search Engine Watch
June 25, 2010
John Lee |
One Ad vs. Many: Understanding Placement Targeted Ads on Google's Content Network Using placement targeting gives your ad a huge advantage for increasing click-through rate and conversions. Here's how you can ensure your placement targeted ads have a fighting chance to perform. |
Search Engine Watch
February 18, 2011
Joseph Kerschbaum |
Automate Your AdWords Management with Automated Rules, Part 2 A walkthrough of the numerous requirements/criteria that you can use when setting up automated rules. Also, a review of the rules you can use at other levels of your account: ad group, keyword, and ad variation. |
Search Engine Watch
January 21, 2010
Melissa Mackey |
Put your PPC on a Diet Small changes over time make the difference, not a bunch of big changes all at once. If you're looking for long-term, sustained paid search success, here's what you need to do. |
