Optimising your PPC Campaign for Mobiles

According to Strategy Analytics global smartphone shipments reached 293 million units in 2010, which is almost doubling the figures from 2008 and 2009. This demonstrates the growing importance of optimising you ads campaigns for mobile phones, particularly for smartphones such as iPhone, Android etc.

PPC Marketing Tips for Beginners

As a beginner online marketer there is a tendency to want results right away. Pay per click marketing is one method that can yield results almost instantly if you know what you are doing. However blindly jumping in can result in you losing your shirt and setting you back tremendously.

Adwords Custom Alerts will become inactive soon

The following article is an announcement from Google’s Prashant Baheti, AdWords Product Manager: When we first created custom alerts, we wanted to provide advertisers with a way to be notified when certain behaviours or changes occurred in their AdWords account. Over time, we observed that most advertisers wanted to take action when such triggers occurred […]

Changes to the Google Adwords Even-Rotation Setting

Google recently implemented changes to the creative rotation of ads in ad groups. Creative Rotation is an option to evenly rotate which ads within ad group are displayed. This allows the advertiser to evenly test the performance of each ad. The other options are to optimise for clicks or optimise for conversions.

Improving Exact Match and Phrase Match matches in Adwords

Sometimes people misspell words when they search on Google. When it comes to the organic search results Google will still display results based on the correct spelling of the word, as well as close variants of correctly spelled words, such as singular and plural forms, acronymns (e.g. F.B.I. with Federal Bureau of Investigation), stemmings (cook […]

Introduction to the Keyword Insertion Technique

What is the Keyword Insertion? Keyword insertion is an advanced feature that can help make your ad more relevant to the searched term. Using keyword insertion involves you inserting a small piece of code into your ad text.This means that each time the ad shows, AdWords will be instructed to replace the code with the […]

Google Adwords: Understanding a Killer App

Is online marketing worth the effort? No matter how much time you spend building the perfect website, you need serious traffic in order to convert enough prospects into customers to keep the bills paid. A quick Internet search for online marketing strategies will reveal a lot of ways to  re-invent the wheel, but its more […]

PPC For Dummies

PPC stands for  “Pay per Click”.  PPC is when businesses pay an agreed amount each time their ad is clicked by a user.  They are not charged when the advertisement is displayed, simply when it is clicked.  Advertisers set up how much they wish to spend per click in advance, although this can be topped […]

How to Write Attractive PPC Ads

Pay Per Click Advertising success depends mainly on how effectively you write your PPC Ads. If the Ads are not compelling and attractive, then users are not going to click on you Ads. Ad Copy that is written correctly can result in higher CTR (click through rates) and increased conversion rates. We have compiled some […]

The Advantages of Advertising on Facebook

Although Google Offers highly targeted Advertising, Facebook Pay Per Click offers some unique opportunities that should also be considered when trying to reach your target market.