Posted in Pay Per Click on Jun 18th, 2010
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 ads [...]
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Posted in Pay Per Click on Apr 29th, 2010
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 with [...]
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George Michie of The Rimm-Kaufman Group has posted results of an excellent research study of the importance of long tail keywords. See How Important is the “Tail”? An Emperical Study. The findings from the study are valuable as summarized in these 5 points:
1. The importance of the tail varies tremendously
2. People search differently for different [...]
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Posted in Pay Per Click on Nov 10th, 2009
We’ve all heard the phrase “location, location, location” when it comes to valuable real estate. Now it seems that “conversion, conversion, conversion” is the hot topic in online marketing. To give you a sense of how hot, I did a Google Search for website conversion rate this morning and received over 2 million results. This [...]
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Posted in Pay Per Click on Oct 28th, 2009
When we set up PPC campaigns we focus on 2 critical factors.
1. Relevant Content
The first factor is to have a tight connection between the ad and the landing page. We aim for similar content between the ad, the keywords and the content of the landing page. This is important not only for maintaining high Google quality scores [...]
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