PPC Management Blog Posts

Google AdWords Expert – Agency Secrets Revealed Part One

Friday, April 8th, 2011

Adgroups, Bidding, Featured, Google Adwords, Google AdWords Expert, PPC Campaigns, PPC Management, PPC Optimisation, Quality Score

Adwords is a bit complicated. There’s no way to get around the fact. Sometimes, it feels to new users to be a minefield – you make one mistake, and it can cost you a fortune. This can understandably be quite stressful, and even off-putting to some advertisers!

Even experienced users of Adwords, such as agencies, make mistakes, and can cost their clients money and ultimately cost themselves accounts. It’s very rare that I’ve accessed an account, whether managed by an agency or by an individual, where mistakes aren’t being made.

But fear not! Help is at hand. Perhaps the most easy-to-understand, but powerful guide ever written on how to advertise on Adwords is now being serialised on the Epiphany Solutions Blog for the first time.

This is the first part of that serialisation. It gives an overview of what Adwords is, where it is and isn’t useful, and the advantages and disadvantages of PPC against SEO. Future parts will look at each aspect of an Adwords account, and show what you should do in order to deliver amazing results, and perhaps more importantly, why the account should be set up and managed in this way. (more…)

Facebook Advertising Early Report Card: Not Bad, But Must Try Harder

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

PPC, PPC Campaigns, PPC Management

Don’t get me wrong Facebook, I like you as a paid advertising medium. You’re new, you’re exciting, advertising with you is quick to set up and I can reach people with a completely different approach to the way I do currently with Google, Yahoo or Bing.

That said; don’t think that just because people like you, you don’t have to put any real effort in – the honeymoon period will quickly run out if that is the case! If you want to improve, please take on board my (and no doubt many other advertiser’s) views and feedback: (more…)

When Good Adverts Turn Bad

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Adgroups, Featured, PPC, PPC Management

You’ve been testing new adverts for years, making ever-smaller refinements as you close in on that holy grail, the ‘perfect advert’. Suddenly, and without warning, your clickthrough rate crashes. You try tweaking various aspects of your adverts, rolling back to your last few versions, but nothing helps. Your advert is officially pants. (more…)

5 hot tips to turn the heat up on your AdWords campaign

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Google Adwords, PPC, PPC Management, PPC Optimisation

To bid or not to bid, that is not the question

A short time ago in a city not so far away (from Leeds anyway) i came up with what i felt was the Killer App for AdWords. This was a long time before i’d come across the long tail concept, chris anderson’s blog and my favourite keyword research tool of 2007, Hittail. Basically, the Killer App was a log file analyser that primarily focussed on the search terms that delivered traffic to your website. This tool would look at exactly what query delivered traffic to your website and tell you how unique it was.

Why would i build a tool solely to do that? Simply becuase with the help of other pay-per-click bid management tools you can report on the ROI per keyword. Google, and now Yahoo and MSN, allow you to choose exactly what keywords and search term combinations you are bidding on and the ROI that each one, individually, is delivering.

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A:B Advert Testing – Is Statistical Significance Over-Rated?

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Google, Google Adwords, PPC, PPC Management, PPC Optimisation

Apologies – this blog is being updated.