Today, Google announced some very exciting news. Keyword match types generally make our lives easier, and we are better able to target the traffic with it. But what happens when your keyword is often misspelled? Or when you’re an e-commerce company who has to bid on singular and plural terms? This could get very time [...]
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Client Services: How to Gain Buy-In Early
April 18th, 2012
admin For our first installment in the April PPC management series, I’m going to focus on something that may not initially come to mind when thinking about how to start off a new account on the right foot: client services. All paid search account managers understand the importance of data and performance. However, the thing many [...]
PPC Account Goal Setting: Set Yourself Up for Incremental Success
April 18th, 2012
admin Today brings the second post in our bookending, please take the time to read and implement in your workflow. Bookending is will help you assign a numerical value to your goals (GASP!). Understanding how your changes are mostly likely to affect your account will give you a specific number to try to hit. If your [...]
Bookending: Predict The Success Of Your Optimizations
April 18th, 2012
admin It’s hard to see the forest for the trees when making account changes, sometimes. Meaning, when we get granular in our account changes, which we should, it’s often difficult to understand exactly how granular changes will affect the entirety of your account. The best way to remedy this is to utilize bookending. Bookending is a [...]
April Showers Bring May PPC Flowers
April 18th, 2012
admin Scenario: you’ve inherited a PPC account and are tasked with your first month of account management, or you’re kicking off a brand new PPC account. Where do you start? What do you do? Fear not, PPC Hero to the rescue! In this month’s blog series, we’ll talk about what PPC seeds to plant now to [...]
Stay Up-To-Date on the Latest PPC Strategies!
April 18th, 2012
admin Only TWO more days until the most exciting paid search event of the year, which you can follow on Twitter via #HeroConf. We’ll be kicking Hero Conf 2012 off Sunday evening with a networking event at the Osteria Pronto in the prestigious JW Marriott. Monday, April 16, will be jam-packed with informative sessions brought by [...]
4 Sure-Fire Ways to Fail at PPC
April 18th, 2012
admin average CPC of $.20 is vastly different than one at $10.00. While you conceptually know this, it’s very easy to lose perspective when managing the accounts if you are switching between the two. Of course you’re not going to up your bids on a $.20 average CPC account to $10.00 on accident. But you might [...]
SMM: And The Winner Is….
April 18th, 2012
admin The 2012 Search Marketing Madness champion is… Fathom Online! Not only do the folks at Fathom get bragging rights for a whole year, but they also will be receiving a $200 Amazon gift card! Congrats! We want to thank all of our readers for casting their votes each round in support of their favorite blogs. [...]
PPC Hero’s 2011 Bloopers Reel *NSFW*
December 16th, 2011
admin Over the past five months or so I’ve been recording the video blogs for PPC Hero here at Hanapin, and I had some hilarious scenes that got cut. We had our office Holiday party this past Wednesday, so I decided to put together a little video of all those great scenes that got cut to [...]

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