Free Tools to Audit Your PPC Campaigns

There are a lot of great tools for performing SEO audits, and some good posts on the topic of performing PPC audits “by hand”, but there seem to be far fewer similar tools for paid search campaigns. In this post I’ll introduce you to a pair of tool sets that can help you get a [...]

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September 5, 2011 | Comments Off | Read Story

Ad Retargeter AdRoll: “Cookies are the New Email”

Adam Berke of AdRoll: Ad retargeting is the future. Do not be afraid.

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September 1, 2011 | 5 Comments | Read Story

Tips for Managing High Spend, High Volume PPC Accounts

Many strategies for managing Pay-per-click or PPC accounts translate across all sizes of PPC accounts. Keeping your ad text fresh, not over using broad match and other tips can be easily implemented across accounts of any size. But any PPC manager who has managed an account that spends a couple hundred thousand dollars a month [...]

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August 31, 2011 | 2 Comments | Read Story

Know Your Customer — Know Their Keywords

If your goal is to increase sales, and it is, you want to find the problem-solvers among your traffic. They’re the one ready to spend money.

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August 26, 2011 | 3 Comments | Read Story

What’s Working in Landing Page Optimization Right Now: #SESSF Report

Landing page optimization (“LPO”)– if done correctly– is an evolving, real-time art, with a highly structured, scientific-method underpinning. The structure itself is a constant: throw up some landing pages to test, analyze conversion results. Change test variables, rinse and repeat. But if you were to attend the same conference session annually about LPO, you may [...]

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August 18, 2011 | 9 Comments | Read Story

Managing PPC Client Expectations – Prospective PPC Client Audit Checklist

One of the most challenging things to do as an agency, and particularly a small one or as an independent consultant, is setting expectations. The challenge is pretty obvious: you want to get the client excited to work with you and of course you want to win the account, so your inclination is to promise [...]

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August 18, 2011 | Comments Off | Read Story

Search Engine Marketing in Poland (Chart)

Several European countries are seeing double-digit online ad-spending increases. Here, we pluck Poland out of the mix to examine its market.

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August 17, 2011 | Comments Off | Read Story

The ROI of ‘No’

What do you do when you want to say “yes,” but your gut is saying “no?”

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August 16, 2011 | 10 Comments | Read Story

New Marketers Guide to Outsourcing

If you are new to internet marketing and find yourself stressed out trying to handle every facet of the business yourself, you can benefit from the advice of others who have been there and survived. The first thing to realize is that nobody excels in every skill.  Your business success depends on you focusing on [...]

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August 3, 2011 | 13 Comments | Read Story

Top 5 “Duh” PPC Techniques

I don’t consider myself particularly humble by nature, but it is always surprising to me that a shared piece of advice accumulated over the last 15 years of my career is valued quite as much as it is.  Recently, I was discussing ideas with a colleague who works as a PPC consultant – well above [...]

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July 18, 2011 | 13 Comments | Read Story