Everything I Know About SEO I Learned in the 80s
There was no commercial internet in the 80’s, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t reach into the recesses of our past to see that, everything we know now about […]
Everything I Know About SEO I Learned in the 80's
There was no commercial internet in the 80’s, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t reach into the recesses of our past to see that, everything we know now about […]
What Do You Expect Your SEO Expert to Know?
It’s funny that we use terms like “expert” to describe an SEO. When looking for someone to help us get us top search engine rankings, we often look to see […]
Google Instant Isn't Instant Gratification
Over the past few days, I’ve been playing around with Google Instant and reading a lot about it. There is a pretty broad range of opinion, and I’ve been drawing […]
Smart Web Business Decisions Made Easier
Here is an absolutely delightful new little (but really huge!) feature in Google Analytics that should make anyone interested in improving their web business results smile from ear to ear. It’s called Weighted Sort.
The problem:
You want to find out how your keywords are performing for a particular metric, say bounce rate, because you want to improve the relevance of the visitors to your site. You jump into analytics to take a look at the Keyword Report, click on the bounce rate heading to sort bounce rates from worst to best, and you find this…
Google Improves Control of PPC Exposure With Modified Broad Match
If you manage a PPC account, you know that for several years now AdWords has had three match types: exact, phrase, and broad. You also know what they mean and how your keywords are matched to search queries. Up until a couple of years ago, broad match meant that the keywords in your phrase were matched to queries that had all of your words in any order.
Then, broad match became “expanded broad match” where Google’s algorithm was given free reign to decide if search queries were a close enough match in search intent to show your ad. Many of the results were not even close. Your keyword could be business cards and your ad would show on state ids and business plans.
PPC Testing Made Easier with AdWords Campaign Experiments
If you take your PPC campaigns seriously (why wouldn’t you?), you’re always testing. Always. It’s the only way to accomplish long-term growth and gain insights that will translate into all of your other marketing channels. One problem that has been inherent since the beginning of PPC is the inability to do true A/B split-testing with variables like keywords, bids, ad text, ad groups, match types, dynamic keyword insertion, etc.
Take Your Online Business to New Heights with the Display Network – Part 2
Man, getting traffic can be so easy…. and dangerous to your bottom line. The truth is, there is an art and science to getting traffic just like any other vocation. It takes skill and knowledge to be successful. So, when it comes to utilizing the Display Network, you need to gather the knowledge that is going to enable you to use the tool correctly to accomplish your goals.
Use Ad Testing to Help Reach Your PPC Marketing Goals – Part 3
First, we took a look at types of ads that you can test and then we look at how to analyze the results of your tests and set up new ones. But, one more thing we must know is when to consider a test complete and ready to be analyzed. If you consider a test complete before you have statistically significant results that prove with great confidence that what you observe is actually true, you may find yourself making conclusions that simply are not. Therefore, you need to know when you have enough data for this to be the case.
Using AdWords Bidding Options to Spend PPC Dollars More Intelligently
The guide for what bidding options to use in your PPC campaigns is the same for any other option – your marketing goals. What are you trying to accomplish with this campaign? Once you figure that out, then knowing the options available and which goals that fit well will help you more intelligently reach those goals.
Using Account Organization to Spend PPC Dollars More Intelligently – Part 2
In my last post, we took a look at a good reason for an account manager to make separate campaigns in an AdWords account. If you have a similar product with different profit margins and total profit, then you want to control how much you’re spending on each. In this post, we’ll explore more of the reasons to separate campaigns.
How to Optimize Your PPC Campaign to Profit From Every Click (For Beginners)
Google, Yahoo and Bing have made setting up pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns fairly easy and painless. Within hours you can have your ads up and running, and delivering traffic to your […]
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 […]
PPC Campaign Organization: Don't Forget Landing Pages
A common mistake I seen made when reviewing PPC campaigns is the failure to match keywords with their correct landing pages. Why does this happen? Probably because people are taught that their ad groups need to contain keywords that have similar words in them. What? Isn’t that right? Well…yes…and no.
It is true to an extent; but only to the extent that each of the keywords that you are grouping as similar should be landing on the same landing page. Ad groups should be organized not only for keywords, but also for landing pages.
when organizing your ad groups, ask the following two questions of your keywords:
1. Are the people using all of these search queries looking for exactly the same thing?
2. Should all of the people searching on these terms land on the same landing page? Or is there a better option available?
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 […]