I was reading SearchEngineJournal’s recommendation about not putting all of your budget into Google and I want to agree, BUT with one stipulation; Adjust your time not your budget. I’m making the assumption that if you are managing your own campaign or campaigns for others, you did not just split up the budgets 1/3, 1/3…
This exact question was posted on SERoundtable and Google says the answer is an overwhelming yes. Several Google representatives all referenced a study that Google did last year that showed that sites who experienced high organic rankings and also participated in Adwords experienced 20% more overall traffic than doing one or the other. Google also…
Google‘s introduction of the “Quality Score” is a ever concerning issue for paid search managers mainly for the lack of transparency that it offers. While score 1 for Google as they are making an attempt to correct the issue by providing us an actual quality score on the KEYWORD LEVEL. The screenshot below indicates a…
My wife and I were talking about the problems her company is experiencing with Google Checkout and it basically is the same problem for us PPC folk. She works for a small up and coming affiliate marketing company, similar to Commission Junction but with much better technology. All affiliate companies, including hers, are having problems…
Over on the Adwords blog Google has just posted a response to all the uproar over the most recent landing page quality update, most specifically this one. I’ll save you the effort of reading the actual post and summarize it up with one word, horse-poop. Can a page that has a high CTR or conversion…
I was reading this post by Andrew Goodman this morning regarding the history of price increases in Google Adwords and their correlation to quality score and the quality updates. This was brought about by all the recent conversations regarding the new adwords landing page quality update that just happened but it got me thinking about…
This is something I was meaning to post last week, but I was busy slaying Tuna in the North Carolina Outer Banks, but alas I am back and hard at work here. Google announced last week that they will be updating how adwords evaluates landing pages. There are two points to take away from this…
Reports are going around that people are finally receiving their checks from the click fraud settlement a few months back. There is a webmasterworld thread about it here but for the lazy folks, here is what people are saying ” Got my $6.45 wohhooo! headed to McDonalds for a Big Mac on google. “ ”…