As a Best Practice, after a week or so of running your Adwords Campaign you should scrub or weed for negative keywords matches.  This is a great optimization technique which can save a lot of money and improve campaign numbers across the board. Here are the steps in running a Search Query Performance Report, it’s [...]

After developing your keyword list, you then need to think about what “match type” you will set your terms to.  To define, Google has four different matching options that determine which Google searches trigger your ads to appear.

5 steps that will give any novice the biggest bang for their Adwords buck. 1. Don’t Send Visitors to Your Homepage:   An estimated 70+ percent of Adwords customers send all campaign clicks to their homepage.  By and large, web visitors are lazy and want to find exactly what they’re looking for as fast as possible.   [...]

The convergence of search and social is all the rage, over the last few weeks, since the announced deal for Google and Bing to show Tweets in their search results. I thought it would be appropriate for us to at least put a stake in the ground regarding our current opinion on the evolution of [...]

1.) Competitors: Go to your competitor’s website(s) and click “View”>”Source” on your browser and view their meta tags for some keyword ideas: 2.) Keyword Tools: Use tools like Google Keyword Tool, Wordtracker, and Keyword Spy 3.) Punctuation: Google will recognize “women’s trek road bikes” and “womens trek road bikes.” Be sure to include any variation [...]

As businesses continue to thrive from the expansion in web services, it’s amazing how much of our desktop computing is executed in the cloud. With Google strongly positioned as the leader in pro-bono web based computing, I find myself using everything from Gmail for multiple email addresses to GCalendar to Google RSS to most recently [...]

1.) Impressions: An impression is defined as the total number of views or ad views. Depending on the keyword you’re bidding on, a term may have hundreds of thousands impressions in a day, or none at all.

2.) Clicks: A click is when a user searches a keyword you’re bidding on, engages in the ad and clicks through to your landing page.

3.) Click-Through-Rate (“CTR”): Click-Through-Rate is the percentage of users searching your keywords and clicking through to your landing page. In my experience, a solid CTR average is between 1.5% – 2.0%. In a further section, ways of improving your CTR will be discussed.

CTR = Clicks/Impressions

Facebook, an unlikely opponent has taken shape to try and unseat Google the “Godfather of the Internet.” Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and cofounder of Facebook has set off on an exploration few thought possible – to lead the next generation of the Internet.  The social network phenomenon has now blossomed into a popular online destination used [...]

Just another Friday afternoon at Google…..