Why “Big Data” Won’t Win You The Battle For Online Revenue
With so much attention currently being focused on big data, advertisers are beginning to lose sight of one crucial truth: big data is worthless if it’s not the right data. So what is the right data? We all know that the digital advertising landscape has dramatically matured over the past…
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SES London Day 2 – SEM Power Tools Set: SEO & PPC #SESLon
More coverage of SES London 2014, where Russell O’Sullivan summarises a session with Richard Baxter and Jasmin Aherns about the right tools for SEO and PPC.
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SES London Day 2 – SEM Power Tools Set: SEO & PPC #SESLon
My AdWords wish list for 2014
Many AdWords professionals spend a lot of time navigating the interface. In this post Haukur Jarl lists five wishes that would make AdWords easier to use.
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My AdWords wish list for 2014
The Democratization of Video Advertising
February is a glorious month for television in the US, hosting the legendary Super Bowl, a climactic fusion of modern mass media advertising and entertainment.
I Don’t Want No Scrub (Agency)
You know the song, so sing it with me people! I made some modifications to the lyrics below that demonstrate my point well: I don’t want no scrub (paid search practitioner) A scrub (PPC ) is a guy (PPC person) that can’t get no love from me Hanging out the passenger side Of his best…
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A Study In Quantity: Sometimes Less Is More
There are generally two schools of thought when it comes to quantity. As a certain group of hilarious phone-peddling kids would tell you, more is better. Image Source This makes sense. More of something (well, something good anyway) is better than less of that thing. However, as a certain insurance-mongering lizard tells me on my […]
Tentative Steps into Twitter Advertising #BiddableWorld
If you want to start paid Twitter Advertising but don’t know where to start – this post is for you from Biddable World 2014
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Tentative Steps into Twitter Advertising #BiddableWorld
Tax Season: Plan Now For Great Advertising Returns
Someone once said that Americans deserved a tax system that looked as it if were designed on purpose. No doubt, the world is a complicated place when tax time looms. Rule changes, exemptions, complicated deductions — it’s no wonder that people start to sweat a little as April 15…
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Part Three: Paid & Organic Report Data
AdWords came out with the paid and organic report in late August. The paid and organic report had the potential to provide data that is no longer available in Google analytics due to the Google secure search update (not provided). Getting data back would be great for both SEO and for SEO-PPC integration. I wrote two posts […]
Start The New Year With A PPC Health Check: Part 1
As Group Head at a fast growing search agency, I’ve carried out hundreds of campaign checks over the years. In my contributions here, I’ll be sharing my top tips on things to look out for when reviewing your own campaigns. Some of these things are obvious, while others might have…
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A Beginners Guide to Adwords Scripts
Jackie Hole presents A Beginner’s Guide to Adwords Scripts, with a introduction into getting the most of them for non coders.
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A Beginners Guide to Adwords Scripts
The Redesign Timeline: When and How to Engage Analytics, PPC, and SEO in Redesign Plans
What better way to start the new year than with plans for a new site? We all go through redesigns. Whatever the reason, a decision is made to go through an overhaul on the existing site. Too often, companies reach out to their digital marketing team as a last minute thought, mentioning “oh guess what, […]
How to Improve Your AdWords Account Structure
In his article, Haukur Jarl walks you through various ways you can structure your AdWords accounts with the aim of increasing your overall PPC performance.
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How to Improve Your AdWords Account Structure
SEER’s Ultimate 2014 PPC Wish List
While we certainly don’t hope for another radical change from 2014, like 2013′s Enhanced campaign migration, the SEER team has shared their PPC wishes for the new year. From updates to Google and Bing to social platforms, we have compiled SEER’s wish list of what we are looking for from PPC in 2014. Once you […]
Mastering PPC: How Did You Come Up With My Budget?
What a coincidence that we both have the same New Year’s resolution for 2014: to crush it with PPC advertising. To do that, we determined a budget to pay for our PPC efforts. Management may ask – how did you decide on the budget amount? Luckily, Google and Bing have tools that provide cost estimates. […]
Best of 2013: No 6 – Remarketing with Google Analytics and AdWords
This post gives readers 15 tips for improving the performance and management of remarketing campaigns using Google AdWords and Google Analytics.
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Best of 2013: No 6 – Remarketing with Google Analytics and AdWords
Mastering PPC: Five Ways To Lower Your CPC’s
Most of us like paying less and getting more. Source – http://swesmarts.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/happy_customer.jpg Here are five ways you can lower your average CPC’s, in prior order from your least to the best options. 5: Lower your bids. It couldn’t be simpler. Bid less, pay less. However, actual/average CPC can often be less than your […]
Mastering PPC: PLAs – Mysteriously Murder Your eComm Competition with PLAs
Let’s say you are an online retailer of books, and you’ve noticed that in the last 6 months your traffic has been slowly declining. Your average position doesn’t appear to be slipping; your ad copy hasn’t changed, and yet… declining traffic. You do a few test queries to investigate and find: This. Your ad, while […]
A Guide to all the Google AdWords PPC Settings
An in-depth guide into the various settings within Google AdWords, what they are and how to use them.
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A Guide to all the Google AdWords PPC Settings
2014: Are you Winning an Award in Iceland?
EU Search Awards – Will you be Winning in Iceland?
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2014: Are you Winning an Award in Iceland?