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Paid Search Marketing
AdWords Review Extensions: Add Positive Reviews & Testimonials to Your AdWords Ads
Learn how to use the newest Google AdWords extension, Review Extensions, to add positive reviews, awards and testimonials to your AdWords text ads.
Confessions of a Reformed Black Hat PPC Marketer: My CPC Arbitrage Story
Doing that for about 2 years will make anyone crazy, including me. Maybe I was too young, and maybe too crazy. But I had high standards for myself and I just could NOT see myself doing this any longer.
The PPC Guide for B2B Professionals
Learn how B2B market characteristics can influence and inform your PPC campaigns in this PPC guide for business-to-business companies.
How to Reduce Your Cost Per Conversion by 16-80% (Sorry, Haters, Quality Score Still Matters)
Learn how Quality Score affects cost per conversion, and why optimizing for Quality Score and optimizing for CPA are essentially the same thing.
The Small Business Strategy Guide to Google AdWords
Learn how small businesses can take advantage of Google AdWords advertising to drive leads and sales in this small business strategy guide.
AdWords Account Audit Checklist
Use this free AdWords Account Audit Checklist when evaluating a new Google AdWords account to identify areas for improvement and optimization.
Banner Ads Are Back from the Dead: How Google Has Given Banner Ads New Life
Banner ads are largely seen these days as fossils from the internet’s dinosaur period, back when blinking text was cool and Angelfire sites were all the rage.
Google Products Graveyard: Mourning Google Reader and Other Discontinued Google Products and Services
A list of discontinued Google Products and Services including Google Reader, iGoogle, Google Wave, Google Buzz and other Google products of the past.
Predictive Search: Is This the Future or the End of Search?
Ever since Google introduced auto-complete in 2004, predictive search has become a welcome part of our internet interactions, helping us search faster, find results quicker, and discover answers to questions we didn’t even know we had.
Google Ads Campaigns Limited by Budget? Find Out What It Means & What to Do
What should you do when your Google campaigns are limited by budget? Here are some tips for improving results without just raising your AdWords budgets.
How To Get Even More Google Sitelinks!
Google has today made it easier than ever to get new bigger and better Google Sitelinks for your ads, which help people find information deeper in your site so they can get to where they want to go faster.
The Top 10 Best Google Ads Features You’re Not Using
Learn the top 10 best Google AdWords features that you're probably not using, and why you should be!
Should I Delete My Low Quality Score Keywords?
Should you delete your keywords with low Quality Scores in AdWords? Not necessarily! Learn when to delete and how to go to the source of the problem.
How Product Listing Ads Are Stealing Your Conversions
Learn how Google's Product Listing Ads suck all the clicks with commercial intent from the SERP, leaving no ROI for organic results and other PPC ads.
Google Ads Extensions Cheat Sheet
Google Ads ad extensions are a highly effective way to make your ads bigger and more clickable, at no additional cost to you. But there are so many extension types -- which ad extensions are right for you? Learn which ad extensions to enable with this cheat sheet.
News Flash: PPC Is Inbound Marketing
News Flash: PPC Is Inbound Marketing! Why the distinction between inbound vs outbound marketing is NOT about "Free" vs. "Paid", but rather Interruption vs. Flow.
Should You Include the Same Keyword with All Match Types in Google Ads?
Should I bid on the same keyword with different match types? Find out why bidding on broad, phrase, and exact on the same keyword may not make sense.
AdWords Keyword Planner Explained: How to Use Keyword Planner
If you're not already using Keyword Planner regularly in your AdWords management workflow, you should be! Check out this comprehensive overview to the AdWords Keyword Planner, a powerful keyword research tool built right into the AdWords interface.
5 Big Brand PPC Ads with Critiques: What We Like, What We’d Change
Let’s look at five big-brand Google Ads (formerly known as AdWords) ads and see what they do well and what they could do better.
What PPC Account Managers Say They Do vs. What They Really Do
PPC account managers claim to be spending lots of time optimizing their accounts, but our data suggests that actual AdWords account activity levels are low. Here's why it matters.
What’s the Best Ad Position in PPC? (Hint: Not Always #1)
Getting the best ad position is key in paid search. Learn how to get the best ad position possible in this comprehensive post.
Bid Adjustments: How Do They Work? The Math Behind Combined Bid Adjustments
Learn how bid adjustments in Google AdWords Enhanced Campaigns work when using multiple adjustments for time, location and device.
Revisiting the Economics of Google Quality Score: Why QS Is Up to 200% More Valuable in 2013
We revisit the economics of Google Quality Score and find that Quality Score is up to 200% more valuable than it was four years ago. Learn why.
‘What Do Those Plus Signs Mean?’ Modified Broad Match for Beginners
What are those plus signs on your keywords in AdWords? That’s modified broad match, a keyword matching option introduced by Google in 2010. Read this primer on the modified broad match type to find out how to make the most of this keyword type.
Five Reasons to Bid on Branded Terms in PPC
Reluctant to bid on your brand terms in AdWords? Here are five great reasons to advertise on branded keywords in PPC.
Why Your Click-Through Rates Suck
Do your click-through rates in AdWords suck? Learn why your CTR is so low and how to fix it.
Dear eBay, Your Ads Don’t Work Because They Suck
Does AdWords work? eBay doesn't think so, but he problem is their ad strategy, not AdWords! Here's how they could fix it and get ROI from PPC.