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Jul 27, 2009
Bryan McConnahea

Google AdWords: How to Structure Ad Groups and Increase CTR

Rating: 4.3 stars

One of the most common questions I get when I'm consulting marketers who want to get started with Google AdWords and PPC marketing, but don't want to lose their shirt is: "Bryan, how do you structure your ad groups for maximum results"?

This article will lay out the exact process and a great example of how you should structure your ad groups and campaigns in general to make the most money promoting products with Google AdWords search network..

Jul 20, 2009
Adam Woods

Optimise Your Landing Page With Google Website Optimizer

A website is a powerful tool for marketing. It gives the businesses and consumers a lot of advantages. The business can market their product or service 24/7, 365 days a year. Through the use of the internet, they were able to compete with bigger companies locally and globally. On the other hand, the consumers also enjoy a lot of benefits for the same reason. They can shop or find the service they like anywhere in the world at anytime. They also have the freedom to choose among hundreds and thousands of websites that is offering the same product or service.

Not all websites are that successfuland the key to a good website and business is traffic. A landing page is any page on a website where traffic is sent specifically to prompt an action or result. It's the page your website visitors arrive at after clicking on a link. It could be your home page, or any other page in your site. There are several ways to optimize your landing page. A lot of service to optimize landing page are being introduced to the internet regularly. Some services are widely used at first but are forgotten even before it really stood out. The reason behind this is because it's only the bigger companies that were able to afford some comparable tools..

Oct 19, 2008
Zey Gutierrez

Optimize Your Seasonal Ad Campaigns Using Historical PPC Trends Data

Rating: 5 stars

Nowadays, a lot of online businesses rely heavily on certain seasons for increased sales volume. As of this writing, the month of September for most industries indicate a significant time for sales  — it's back-to-school in the US; it's the early start of Halloween and Christmas preparation for Christian nations; it's the beginning of vacation booking for some travel enthusiasts. If you are an online marketer that could benefit from such events, then you might just want to invest on the trend when the demand is in full bloom, because if you're not prepared as a seasonal marketer, you will not reap the fruits of a demanding market during this buying season.

Sep 24, 2008
Ian Mackie

How to Improve PPC Performance Using Negative Keywords

When NOT to Show Your Ad Negative keywords permit advertisers to specify when ads should not be shown, such as when a keyword has multiple meanings or is part of other popular queries..

Aug 18, 2008
Wayne Wu

6 Google AdWords Mistakes You Should Avoid

Rating: 5 stars

Google AdWords is an effective means of pulling in targeted traffic to your website. It allows you to get your site listed on the first page of the search results on Google and its advertising network for virtually any keyword phrase you can imagine. I'm convinced that Google is the best advertising channel that can generate consistent and quality traffic day in and day out..

Aug 18, 2008
Mal Keenan

5 Ways to Decrease Your AdWords Spending

Rating: 5 stars

I am no Google AdWords expert, but since coming online many years ago and from the dawn of Google AdWords, I've initiated campaigns many times, had my fingers burnt more than once, and eventually learnt to build and sustain many successful AdWords campaigns.

Here my top 5 tips for setting up a successful Google AdWords advertising campaign and decreasing your ad budget significantly..

Aug 5, 2008
Steve Dimeck

10 Steps For Fighting Click Fraud

Pay-Per click fraud dates back even from the time when Overture was still Goto.com. Only, it wasn't as serious as it is lately since the pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is becoming very popular for getting highly targeted traffic as well as making an affiliate-based commission..

Keep reading: 10 Steps For Fighting Click Fraud   Tags: PPC
Jul 13, 2008
Gautamm Mehra

How to Activate Inactive Keywords in Google AdWords

Rating: 4.5 stars

The number one Google Adwords frustration we face everyday is the inactive keyword phenomenon. Imagine spending hours of research, grouping and uploading, only to see that 90% of your work was fruitless.

Here are simple tricks that I have had success with in the past in activating keywords and would like to share it with you..

Jul 2, 2008
B Lakatos

Historical Quality Score Explained

Rating: 1.5 stars

A lot of new advertisers take a good deal of time trying to outline some acceptable tactics for identifying and alleviating their own Quality Score symptoms and it seems that many times Quality Score is the real issue when it comes to the usual minimum CPC bid complaints made by them. Historical Quality Score for the search terms themselves, however, might prove to be a real nightmare for savvy professionals as well..

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Jun 9, 2008
Hock Ng

How to Split Test Your Adwords Ads

One of the most common mistakes a newbie to Google AdWords makes is not split testing their ads. Split testing is simply running more than one ad at a time for a given ad group. The purpose doing this is to determine the ad that performs better according to a given metric..

Keep reading: How to Split Test Your Adwords Ads   Tags: PPC