• All too often keywords in a paid search account are evaluated based solely on their ability to generate conversions: leads, bookings or sales. If a keyword has an unacceptable conversion rate or an […]

  • Browsing through your Google AdWords account, you notice some of your keywords are not showing due to “low search volume”. Hovering your mouse over the speech bubble, the ad diagnostic tool pops up: […]

  • I recently stumbled across a Google AdWords video by Derek Faylor describing how to boost AdWords relevancy. He suggests picking one keyword that is core to your business, setting it to exact match […]

  • There’s been a lot of talk about long-tail keywords in pay per click (PPC). You could say it started in the entertainment industry with Chris Anderson’s influential Long Tail article in 2004, but […]

  • Daily campaign budgets in Google AdWords are great. You simply enter the maximum you want to spend per campaign per day, then sit back and relax, safe in the knowledge that your monthly […]

  • Welcome to the final part of the Clicks Rule special. You may remember the 10% Clicks Rule is a technique to help identify the areas of your Google AdWords account which could benefit […]

  • Welcome to part 2 of the Clicks Rule special. You may be familiar with a technique I shared in recent post called the 10% Clicks Rule (if not, you may want to come […]

  • Welcome to the first of a 3-part Clicks Rule special. Here’s the theory No more than 10% of total broad and phrase clicks in your Google AdWords account should come from a single […]

  • I’m going to focus my first post on what I believe is the most fundamental concept in PPC: relevancy. Giving users what they are looking for. Directing them to where they want to […]