PPC - Pay Per Click Management

The last PPC campaign I analysed in the ‘Analyse A Real PPC Campaign’ series was from GoSkyDive, who had, on the whole, a well designed PPC landing page – it was particularly effective to have a video animation of people sky diving on the landing page, to induce a sense of excitement with the web user. One ...

An innovation Google introduced to PPC advertising came a few years ago with responsive adverts, for both publishers and advertisers. Responsive search adverts consist of the ability to change the headline/description to suit the web user viewing the search ad, whereas responsiveness for publishers could be defined as adverts ...

The last PPC campaign I analysed in the ‘Analyse A Real PPC Campaign’ series was from Book Bride, that had, on the whole, a very good PPC campaign. The main criticism was the fact the click through landing page linked to a poor lead capture page, neglecting the efforts of designing a responsive and clean PPC landing ...

The last PPC campaign I analysed in the ‘Analyse A Real PPC Campaign’ series was from Love Holidays, who had both a very well designed search advert and PPC landing page. This was from using an ad extension, whilst addressing cheap holidays to the web user in the search advert, and from adopting a ‘sea’ ...

The last PPC campaign I analysed in the ‘Analyse A Real PPC Campaign’ series was from iScootCo, who had a PPC campaign that competed against Google shopping sponsored results, which meant that iScootCo had to use call to actions in their search title to grab the reader’s attention and into a click. The main ...

Pay per click (PPC) advertising can be deemed one of the best forms of online marketing out there. This is made clear from the millions of people that use the likes of Google AdWords to gain contextual traffic – this is no fluke… However, making the most of PPC can be quite difficult. Although the structure of the ...

The last PPC campaign I analysed in the ‘Analyse A Real PPC Campaign’ series was looking at Amazon Headphones, who had a standard ‘Amazon style’ search advert that navigated web users to the category page of Amazon for headphones . In this case, it was the familiarity of the search advert and landing ...

The last PPC campaign I analysed in the ‘Analyse A Real PPC Campaign’ series was from DWM Mortgages.  The search advert had some good elements to it. However, there was no call to action to encourage the web user into a click. On top of this, the landing page was not very well designed, with a poor picture to ...

Pay per click advertising is completely dictated by results. Results. Results. Results. A/B testing is an extremely effective way to do this, by varying one variable between two identical campaigns to see how that changed variable affects the performance of the advert. The problem lies in what variable/s should you change in ...

The last PPC campaign I analysed in the ‘Analyse A Real PPC Campaign’ series was from Thread, who were the only paid search advert competing against Shopping Sponsored results. However, the problem with this campaign was mainly with the inefficiencies of the landing page. Thread failed to see that what the web user ...

A successful PPC campaign is often overwhelming, expensive, tedious and time taking. These are the reasons why most people quit this strategy if they fail to yield results at first attempt. But here is the ten step guide to master the art of PPC: Long-tail keywords Long tail keywords refer to three or four word phrases specific ...

The last PPC campaign I analysed in the ‘Analyse A Real PPC Campaign’ series was from Car Parts 4 Less, who had ranked number one for paid search results, but had areas the search advert could have improved on. The landing page was also a little outdated, signifying the important of the weather seasoning to ...