Category Archives: Pay Per Click

Quickinar on Landing Pages and Increasing Conversions

Next week – Thursday, April 14th – Ernest Barbaric is hosting a Quickinar on the topic of Landing Pages that Convert Visitors to Prospects. I have seen Ernest’s presentation and it is excellent. If you are in sales, marketing or website development, I would highly encourage you to attend. During the seminar Ernest will be…

Why Are My Ads Showing in the Philippines When My Target is Canada?

That is the question I received in an email this morning from a client of mine. I panicked, thinking I had accidentally changed the geo-target settings in Google AdWords. After assuring that this was not the case, I started looking into what could possibly be causing this. Let me set the stage a little bit…

Jeff and Doug – Promo Video for 6 Hours to Online Strategy

Doug and I wanted to put together a video to promote the upcoming workshop on 6 Hours to Online Strategy, slated for Monday, November 29th. There are 20 spots and very few left but we wanted to create a video for the social media release that we are putting together with Marketwire. You can register…

5 Myths about Google Adwords

I saw an interesting article in my inbox this morning that I would like to share. Google: 5 Myths and a Reality about Google Adwords. I am going to paraphrase but keep in mind, this is directly from the keyboard of Google “itself”. Myth 1: “Online advertising is not for local businesses.” Seems to me…

Google Product Extensions

Flipping through the Website Magazine, I stumbled across an article called “Flexing Your Marketing Muscles with Google Product Extensions” by Brian Lewis. This article is about Google Product extensions which are putting an end to the 70-character ad text which is incredibly restricting, the ‘one landing page per keyword’ rule and the fact that image…

Using Google Adwords To Find A Job…

Pretty good article here at the Huffington Post (be sure to watch the video.) The gist is, this man knowing that people do vanity searches on themselves in Google, created an ad asking them for a job. Genius!

“See Search Terms” Google Tool

Google has added another tool to make PPC maintenance just a bit easier. It has been there for a little while now but I just recently realized the time saving power of this tool. There are many reports available to the AdWords advertiser – some helpful, some just a lot of data on a page…