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Ppc Bid Management

Broad Match is No Substitute for the Tail

Does broad match + negatives and lots of love and attention yield better results than a fully developed KW list with power tools and smart resource allocation? Not a chance, the opposite is the case.

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PPC: Holiday Bid Management Tips

Anticipating traffic value shifts at the holidays is the key to a successful Q4.

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PPC: the Importance of Click Volume

Thin data impacts every paid search program.

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Google Finds Position Bidding Counter-Productive Too

Google finds what we found to be true years ago.

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PPC Bid Management Misunderstanding #3: “Portfolio Approach”

The term “portfolio” has more than one meaning.

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There Are No Bad Keywords

When your SEM says “those keywords didn’t work”, it’s time to find a new agency.

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List, Offer, Package in PPC

The principles of direct marketing have not changed in 50 years. Online marketers would do well to pay attention to the lessons learned from experience.

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PPC Bid Management Misunderstanding #1: Manual Bidding vs Automation

PPC advertising is not a one size fits all game. There are cases in which manual bidding makes sense. There are cases in which automated bidding is essential. Here’s our take on which is which.

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Smart Bidding Requires Smart Clusters

My monthly column for Search Engine Land in case you missed it.

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  • Mark Ballard: Cory, I don’t see this as an SEO v. PPC issue. The core of my argument is that CTRs are lower primarily due to misleading...
  • Cory Grassell: What are your thoughts on stats that suggest consumers are more apt to click on organic search results than PPC results? As a...
  • George Michie: Kevin, Marc, thanks for your comments. Help is coming, but not the solution. There are a number of instances when the CTR on the...
  • Marc Adelman: George, You have been an advocate of “the advanced control option” for years now. Depressing right YEARS! Eh…listen...
  • Kevin Hill: Is what they really need is a fourth match type. Here’s google’s help documentation on broad match: This is the default...
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  • Tomas: indeed, i can’t talk about it either… :)
  • Philip Price: Thank you for the RegHack, it worked for me, tho at first when i made the reg file with the information i copied from above i also...
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  • George Michie: If they keep hearing the same message, and seeing evidence in the data to back it up, something will have to give. There is hope on...
  • Tomas: I’ve been having the same argument with Google for months now and in the end there does seem to be a feature in the algorithm that...
  • George Michie: Doesn’t have to be, it can be intra-adgroup as well.
  • Josh: George – I take it you’re referencing a scenario where your exact-match keywords are not listed as negative exact match keywords...
  • George Michie: Melissa, you’re right, it’s always happened to varying degrees, particularly since the advent of extended broad match....

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