Forum: Search Engine Optimization 
4th November 2012, 11:51 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 493  Re: How Not to Get Adwords Banned
1. Using Adwords or any other PPC if there's no ads for a keyword is virtually irrelevant. Maybe you're not using the right keywords. Maybe it just happens that no ads were show at that moment for...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
3rd November 2012, 09:13 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 539 Re: ppc question
The problem with Facebook is that it is interrupt advertisement. Just like electronic and print media, you expose your ad to the masses hoping they will see your ad, be interested and get a response....
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
12th October 2012, 07:56 AM
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Replies: 2
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
12th October 2012, 07:47 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 791 Re: Adwords - Company Account
As you've found out, VCCs don't work to create new accounts. That's because the information you give Google (name, address, phone number...) must match the credit card. A real one. VCCs are not set...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
4th October 2012, 08:39 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 610 Re: The absence of a benefit is not a penalty.
I hate the word penalty when talking about ranking sites. I know, Google uses it but I don't see it as a penalty. More like an opportunity lost. I also hate the use of the words indexed/de-indexed...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
4th October 2012, 07:42 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 672 Re: What would you do if you were GOOGLE?
First, what Zeus says about SEO needing to be murky is ridiculous. Google or any other search engine for that matter doesn't care what website owners do as far as SEO is concerned. They don't say...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
10th September 2012, 12:47 PM
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Replies: 4
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
5th September 2012, 09:42 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 866 Re: MSN Adcenter Direct Linking, Can or Cannot ?
Adcenter has pretty much the same rules as Adwords. For both, it's not a question of direct linking. It's a question that the final destination page follows the Adcenter rules and guidelines...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
29th August 2012, 08:02 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,053 Re: Adwords Questions and High CPC!
1. A two-word keyword may be too short-tail. It's rare that I use them but it depends on the product. Think longer tail. Use a keyword that exactly describes what you are selling. If you do that, you...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
4th August 2012, 09:49 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 552 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
6th July 2012, 01:20 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 543 Re: Anyone noticed Adsense CTR decreased?
You're assuming that things are static. They're not. Things are very dynamic. Advertisers come and go, so I doubt you are showing ads from the same advertisers today as you did a year ago.
Others...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
22nd June 2012, 01:08 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 407 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
4th June 2012, 08:44 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 639 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
1st June 2012, 11:52 AM
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Replies: 46
Views: 4,338 Re: Adwords + eBook Sales Page = Disaster ?
I think you better fire your coach.
That's not it at all. They just don't want people to click on ads where the landing page makes them go to another sales page when they are ready to buy....
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
25th May 2012, 08:16 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 2,411 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
21st April 2012, 08:58 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,829 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
18th April 2012, 01:39 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 534 Re: Match Types & AdGroups
There is really no right or wrong way. Myself, I create groups with all three match types in the same group. I don't see the benefits of having one group for each type. It happens that I split off...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
2nd April 2012, 06:25 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 459 Re: Adwords campaign on select sites only
From your campaign, click on the Networks tab. You'll see lower Managed and Automatic placements. Click on Show Details next to the Managed Placements. That will bring up the controls you need....
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
23rd March 2012, 07:02 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 350 Re: Google PPC question
The percentage of people clicking on your ads depend on two things. One that should be obvious is how high up your ad ranks. Like the natural rankings, people tend to click on listings that are at...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
2nd March 2012, 02:29 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 920 Re: Does PPC work for a retail store?
I've done PPC management for brick and mortar as well and it does help the bottom line.
What you have to remember, and I think you know this, is that people are now using the search engines as the...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
24th February 2012, 09:37 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,211 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
24th February 2012, 09:12 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 5,822 Re: Adwords Account Suspended. Now What Do I Do?
Whatever you do, do NOT open a new account. You just run the risk of getting all accounts banned and then you got nothing left.
Instead, fix what is getting you suspended in the first place....
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
22nd February 2012, 08:43 PM
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Replies: 60
Views: 2,402 Re: How important is link relevance EXACTLY?
Most people say a link is a link. That cannot be true. We know that Google places great emphasis on being relevant. So why would they forget or ignore this when considering links in the rankings? It...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
18th February 2012, 06:45 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 1,042 Re: Squeeze Pages and PPC?
Don't know where you get that from but that's not true. If you collect emails, you cannot have a page whose sole purpose is to collect emails. That's a pure squeeze page. You need content. You also...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th January 2012, 08:45 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 974 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th January 2012, 02:12 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 974 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th January 2012, 02:05 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 643 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th January 2012, 04:36 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,094 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
22nd December 2011, 08:10 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 639 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th December 2011, 03:19 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,532 Re: Adwords suspended me for old campaigns
Well what else are you going to focus on? It's a contract and every contract has terms. Google's lawyers and the judge are going to be looking at that contract.
Secondly, I don't know why a lot of...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
7th December 2011, 04:02 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 344 Re: Adwords keyword problem...
That's what you'd think and what many think but it's wrong. Broad is "very broad" so something to approach very carefully as you're finding out.
Much better is the relatively new modified broad....
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
6th December 2011, 08:16 AM
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Replies: 437
Views: 45,472 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
4th December 2011, 10:08 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 390 Re: Want to start Adwords (PPC)
It will remain the same unless it doesn't follow their rules and guidelines.
As to what to promote/sell, whatever the heck you want. Well, almost. Do check the kind of things Adwords objects to...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th November 2011, 11:43 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 825 Re: Quality Score in Adcenter?
A bridge page is a page from one sales page to another sales page. You probably don't consider your page a sales page but that's just semantics I guess. If you have a link that says "download ted's...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
12th November 2011, 10:25 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 825 Re: Quality Score in Adcenter?
The basic principle of QS on both system is the same. Most of it is CTR. There's also keyword relevance, landing page relevance and landing page quality. Any of these will affect your QS. And lower...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
25th October 2011, 08:05 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 421 Re: Ad Score Question
You seem to know that Quality Score, or ad score as you call it, is affected more by click rate than anything else. Ask yourself, what affects click rate, the keyword or the ad? The answer is...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th October 2011, 02:29 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 534 Re: what cpc company to choose?
Why limit to just one?
Google: number one search engine so why not use it? Adwords is top notch.
Bing: number two search engine. Adcenter very similar to Adwords. Not quite as good but...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
8th October 2011, 09:08 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 795 Re: Adsense CPC Is IT Actually Real?
Sigh. If only there could be a sticky thread about this subject and people actually _read_ it.
As pointed out by others, the GKT is a tool for advertisers and gives them an estimate of what they...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th July 2011, 10:35 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 968 Re: Average Price Per Click?
Not quite.
It is an estimate of what an advertiser would likely pay to be in the top positions given an average quality score. Advertisers with better than average QS will pay less. And of course,...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
29th June 2011, 01:00 PM
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Replies: 49
Views: 2,025 Re: How to determine a quality site?
Paul, I think you're right. Thanks for the link by the way.
Pretty much everything on that list is subjective, nothing that software could determine. I doubt Google has people rating sites and...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
27th June 2011, 11:57 AM
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Replies: 33
Views: 2,300 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
26th May 2011, 07:44 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,462 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
22nd May 2011, 08:19 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 597 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
9th May 2011, 01:46 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,971 Re: Can't See Adword Ads in Google
I don't think so. Google redirects to your country's URL, at least here in Canada it redirects to google.ca whenever I type .com or any other TLD.
Therefore, you are still looking at google.com.ar...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
6th May 2011, 07:08 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 579 Re: CPC in Google Keyword Tool
The tool is meant for advertisers using Adwords. Those CPC values are also only estimates that the advertiser may pay. They are based on average ad quality but if an advertiser has higher quality...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
26th April 2011, 07:48 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 811 Re: PPC: Thinking lateral but faced with low QS
The bottom line is, getting more impressions to get more clicks is not necessarily a good thing. In fact, I'd say it's almost never a good thing. You don't want (more precisely, need) more clicks,...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
19th April 2011, 08:11 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,475 Re: Does Bing PPC penalize for exit popups?
From Adcenter's editorial guidelines (http://advertising.microsoft.com/support-center/product-help/adcenter/topic?query=MOONSHOT_CONC_EditorialLandingPage.htm) regarding the landing page:
The...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
15th April 2011, 02:04 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,033 Re: Adwords - Broad Match Modifier HELP!!
You simply put a + in front of the words you want modified. It will show as a broad match in AE's drop-down but it's OK. When uploading, the system will see it properly as a BMM keyword.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
10th March 2011, 09:44 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 785 Re: Strange Adword Ad Format
This is just the new feature out a month ago. If your ad appears above the SERPs, the first description line will be appended to the title line with a dash in between and make it look like a longer...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
24th February 2011, 08:02 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 615 Re: Google PPC Broad Matching
Use phrase AND exact matches. Use broad for longer tailed, not on a one-word keyword like widget. Better yet, use the new modified broad match.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
18th February 2011, 08:38 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 851 Re: The Fastest Typist on The Warrior Forum
I have a theory that the missing sock after you do laundry is that the dryer spins fast enough to send one sock either forward or backward in time or into another dimension. Once I solve how this...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
18th February 2011, 02:49 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 423 Re: CPC question
If you are referring to the CPC estimates in Google's Keyword Tool, then yes, you are correct that those are for the search network. It doesn't mean that the search network will be cheaper but most...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
16th February 2011, 08:53 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 621 Re: Is SEO a Hoax?
It doesn't matter what you or any expert think where you should rank. It's where Google thinks you should rank, the algorithm's rules, that matters.
Only one site can rank first at any one time....
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
27th January 2011, 02:49 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 442 Re: google adwords question/issue?
If you're going to use a tool, and Adwords is a tool, you MUST learn the lingo and how to use the tool. The Adwords FAQ (http://www.lucidwebmarketing.com/adwords-faq.html) can help you get started.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
25th January 2011, 02:30 PM
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Replies: 7
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
30th November 2010, 02:49 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 641 Re: PPC Experts, Help...ASAP!
Why exactly is he not happy?
If because a lesser number of sales, you must show and explain that he may have got a lot more clicks before but of lesser quality. Raw numbers mean nothing. It's the...
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