Most of the PPC accounts I look at do not take advantage of all of the different options that AdWords offers to organize your account for maximum success. Most of them simply organize their campaigns based upon keywords. They’ll separate keywords into separate campaigns just because they’re different keywords. Or, they’ll keep all different kinds of keywords for all different kinds of products with all different kinds of marketing goals in the same campaign. But, AdWords has given us the flexibility to have much more control over how we are spending our money so that every dollar can be maximized.
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Stop Wasting PPC Clicks and Start Saving $$$ – Part 2
Once again, we’ve eliminated more wasted clicks from the mix. Therefore, we should see our conversion rate and cost per conversion metrics in these ad groups improve as we continue to focus on getting only the most relevant visitors to our website and more intelligently spending our precious PPC budget.
Funneling PPC Money Into the Right Keyword Markets
There’s a big temptation that PPC managers need to stay away from, especially when first building an account. The temptation is assumption. (And yes, we all know what happens when….) If you assume, you can waste a lot of time building out a campaign that you will just have to spend MORE time fixing later.
Stop Wasting PPC Clicks and Start Saving $$$ Now
If you have a PPC account, as you read this you are paying for wasted clicks. Visitors that aren’t really interested in what you offer are coming to your website and you’re paying for them. Isn’t that frustrating to know? The bad news is that the nature of PPC won’t enable you to ever totally eliminate this from happening.
Scouting Keywords That Will Become Your All-Star Players
What’s the best keyword research tool out there? Google’s? WordTracker? Keyword Discovery? Actually, none of them. The best keyword research tool is a broad match keyword in a PPC account.
SEO 101 – Part 16: Everything You Need to Know About Building Links
The following series is pulled from a presentation I gave to a group of beauty bloggers hosted by L’Oreal in New York. Most of the presentation is geared toward how to make a blog more search engine and user-friendly, however I will expand many of the concepts here to include tips and strategies for sites…
SEO 101 – Part 14: Everything You Need to Know About Link Anatomy
The following series is pulled from a presentation I gave to a group of beauty bloggers hosted by L’Oreal in New York. Most of the presentation is geared toward how to make a blog more search engine and user-friendly, however I will expand many of the concepts here to include tips and strategies for sites…
SEO 101 – Part 2: Everything You Need to Know About Title Tags
The following series is pulled from a presentation I gave to a group of beauty bloggers hosted by L’Oreal in New York. Most of the presentation is geared toward how to make a blog more search engine and user-friendly, however I will expand many of the concepts here to include tips and strategies for sites…
SEO 101 – Part 1: Everything You Need to Know About SEO (But Were Afraid to Ask)
When you’ve been writing about SEO as long as I have you sometimes feel that you’ve run out of things to say. We forget that there is always someone new just learning about SEO and hasn’t had the chance to read every article ever written on the topic. Not many people have that kind of…
Go Blog Yourself Step 8: Do It Right and Do It Again
Each blog post you write should leave your readers fully satisfied. Like sex, a good meal or even a good TV show, each blog post must be enough to leave people happy but wanting more at that same time. While every performance may not be better than the last, you have to leave the expectation…
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