For many years, Google Ads has been effective in driving traffic to a website in an instant. Your website’s conversion rate could be directly affecting a successful Google Ad campaign, it all starts with the ads. If you are advertising through Google Ads, then you have noticed that there are several ads sizes and choosing…
Question: What is the difference between SEO and PPC Answer: In short, SEO stands for search engine optimization, which is a method used to increase your ranking in search engines without paying the search engines. PPC, on the other hand, is pay-per-click advertising, where you’re literally paying a search engine for clicks resulting from the…
As one of my many new year’s resolutions I was doing some house cleaning on my sites and stumbled upon this post I wrote back in 2007 about Google’s IP Exclusion tool. I think it’s a topic that needs to be revisited. I’ve seen consistent increase in competition and CPC’s across my client base for…
With the holiday seasons coming up I hope everyone has their campaigns in order but one of the most overlooked portion of a lot of campaigns I see is the landing page. Tim Ash presented a Google Website Optimizer Webinar (which they’ve now posted on their YouTube Channel here) which talked about the ‘Seven Deadly…
Maybe its just me, but is anyone else getting an error with the Adwords Editor when trying to post to an account?
SERoundtable had a poll this morning that I thought was interesting, its a ‘What is your highest CTR’? poll. Just about anyone who runs any kind of paid search account would tell you this is such an arbitrary question it can’t possibly be accurate. Account Level? Campaign level? Keyword level? Ad Level? I have a…
I’ll be honest, I don’t use the content network that much or at all for a variety of reasons but I know there are the select few who it does work for. If you are one of those few and would like to keep your ads from showing up in people’s email, Barry at SERoundTable…
It’s no secret that Google updated it’s Adwords Placement algo yesterday and while many of its effects are being talked about in places like the WebMasterWorld Forums there are a couple of other changes that are not being picked up by the masses. Yet. Since last year sometime Google has been on a mission to…
Just a quick reminder for those of you using MSN adCenter that on Aug 29th they will be turning on their content network and that means opting you in it. While I’m a bigger fan of MSN content network vs Google’s, I’m still not a fan of using content network, at least not for my…
I just finished taking my Adwords Professional exam in order to re-up my “Adwords Professional Certification” and I have determined that Google wants you to fail! I have some beef with this thing and here is why. First off, I had to pay $50 AGAIN to re-certify myself. I’ve already had to do this once,…