Hopefully I don’t have to convince you that you should be testing ads in your pay per click accounts. If you’re not constantly testing ads as part of your PPC program, you’re missing out. Here’s why: In competitive niches, not testing ads could lead to the low level of performance that gets your entire PPC …
Articles by Brian Carter
For some reason, internet marketing is full of TLA’s – Three Letter Acronyms. And TLA is my favorite TLA. What The Heck is a KPI? One of those acronyms that frequently furrows brows in the conference rooms is KPIs: No, not Keylime Pie Instructions Not Kit Kat Possession Indulgence Syndrome Key Performance Indicators. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_performance_indicators If …
Increasing ROI by Applying Modern Portfolio Theory to Pay Per Click Optimization This “Budget Awesomization” strategy is based on modern portfolio theory. And that makes sense because managing pay per click spend is not unlike investment management – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_portfolio_theory The lesson? Invest more ad spend in PPC campaigns that produce greater ROI. Here’s how: As …
Pay per click budgeting is not a topic I thought you could devote a whole blog post to, when I first started doing PPC in 2004. But I was wrong. Here are the five most important budget-related topics in pay per click advertising: Insufficient spend Overspending Effects of tests on spend Seasonal changes Optimizing ROI …
Pay per click is an advertising laboratory. Every new account, every adgroup, every keyword, every ad is a test. There are no guarantees when you start – which keywords will work, which ads, which search networks, and so on. Everything’s a test in the beginning. And no matter how long your account has been running, …