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1 in 5 Calls to Your Business Are Abandoned: Here’s How to Save Them

Did you know 1 in 5 calls to your business are abandoned? Find out how to lower your call abandon rates with these strategies.

7 Super-Smart PPC Tips for Higher Education Marketing

With expensive keywords, long sales cycles, and advertising regulations, higher education marketers face many challenges. Check out seven tactics every higher education marketer should be using to succeed with PPC.

34 Killer PPC Ad Templates with Crazy High CTRs

PPC ad writing can get pretty tedious! Don't get stuck! Use these templates to quickly and easily write PPC ads proven to work!

Sorry, Google, Account-Level Quality Score Still Exists

Google announced that Quality Scores for new keywords would default to 6, but we know account level quality score still exists! Here's why it matters.

Google Transforms Dynamic Search Ads: Say Goodbye to Keywords!

Google announced a complete redesign of Dynamic Search Ads, which takes keyword management out the equation opting for targeting by categories taken from the products and services sold on your website.

7 Best Practices for Perfect Landing Page Forms

Landing page forms are one of the most important parts of a landing page. Here are seven best practices you should follow to increase the conversion rates of your forms.

Dan Shewan
July 27, 2015 | Landing Pages

3 Keys to Better Keyword Analysis

Keyword analysis is one of the most important steps in your PPC workflow. Learn three ways to do better keyword analysis for your paid search campaigns.

The Top 10 Paid Social Media Hacks of All Time

The secret to lowering ad costs is increasing engagement. In this guide, social expert Larry Kim offers 10 tips to create truly stellar social media campaigns in Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Larry Kim
July 21, 2015 | Social Media

5 Psychological Tricks to Exploit in Your PPC Ad Copy

Writing good PPC ad copy is harder than it sounds. Follow these tips to leverage the power of psychology and write killer ads your prospects can't resist clicking.

Margot Whitney
July 20, 2015 | Copywriting

Message Match: One Weird Trick for Better Landing Pages

Landing page message match is a major problem. Learn what message match is and how poor message match can kill your conversion rates.

Guest Author
July 16, 2015 | Landing Pages

4 Stealable Ways Great Public Speakers Make Sure You Remember Them

Want to be a great public speaker? Here are four simple things that great speakers do to make sure the audience remembers them and what they say.

18 Sneaky Ways to Build Brand Awareness

Learn the basics of brand awareness, how it facilitates your broader marketing goals, plus 18 brand-building strategies (with examples) to help you build brand awareness for your small business.

Megan Marrs
July 10, 2015 | Marketing Ideas

7 Sources for Marketing Data to Make Your Content More Convincing

Marketing data is one of your most powerful tools as a content marketer. Check out these seven sources of marketing statistics before starting your next content project.

5 Ways to Get Insanely Low CPCs on the Display Network

A lot of marketers dismiss the Google Display Network, but in this post, you'll learn five ways to hack the GDN for insanely low CPCs.

Larry Kim
July 6, 2015 | Display Ads

Stop Paying for Accidental Mobile Clicks! 3 Ways Google Has Improved Click Quality

Google has made strides in preventing accidental mobile clicks. Check out the 3 improvements they've made to prevent inflated clicks to improve the user and advertiser experience.

Complete Guide to the NEW AdWords Certification Test

For those of you contemplating getting your AdWords certification or looking to get re-certified, we've created this guide to provide everything you need to know about the process, since it has drastically changed over the last few years. Get studying!

Average Cost per Click by Country: Where in the World Are the Highest CPCs?

Location, location, location! In search, we know that users search for different things in different states and that the average cost per click advertisers pay differs by state too. In this post, we rank 97 countries in order of highest average cost per click to lowest average cost per click.

Behold the Amazing Power of Twitter Hashtags

Why use Twitter hashtags? Because they can dramatically increase your reach! See the power of trending hashtags in action.

Larry Kim
July 1, 2015 | Social Media

Landing Page Relevance: Can You Optimize for Quality Score?

Is landing page relevance really that important, and can you optimize landing pages for Quality Score?

Dan Shewan
July 1, 2015 | Landing Pages

Law Firm Marketing: 9 Tips for Winning More Clients with PPC

Law is one of the most challenging and expensive industries to market, but your firm won't survive without a steady flow of new leads and clients. Follow these 9 marketing tips for law firm and lawyers to win more clients with AdWords.

6 Landing Page Tools to Save Your Conversion Rates

These seven free or cheap landing page tools will help you create, fix, test or improve your landing pages to boost conversion rates.

Megan Marrs
June 24, 2015 | Landing Pages

6 Ways to Learn Google Ads Without Getting Certified

There are plenty of ways to get to grips with Google Ads! Some of these resources focus primarily on the basics, whereas others deal with a mix of beginner, intermediate, and advanced topics--so there’s something for everyone!

6 Stupid Marketing Metrics That Need to Die

Despite it being the year 2015, many marketers are evaluating the success of their efforts by metrics that should have died years ago. Here are six marketing metrics that simply must die.

Larry Kim
June 18, 2015 | Marketing Ideas

PPC Worst Practices: 5 "Smart" Strategies That Are Actually Dumb

Some supposed best practices in PPC are actually worst practices! Don't commit these five outdated paid search sins.

Google Makes Strides in Tracking Cross-Device Conversions Across the Web

Did you know 90% of people move between devices to accomplish a goal? Google’s DoubleClick announced they are now going to provide marketers cross-device measurement to all of their campaigns across the web.

5 Tips for Running an A/B Test on a Budget

A/B testing is like eating your vegetables. Here are our top 5 A/B testing tips for small businesses or marketers working on a budget.

Meg Lister
June 16, 2015 | Conversion Rates