From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Automatic Broad Match Cheat Sheet

by admin on January 30, 2010

Here’s the Automatic Broad Match Discussion Cheat Sheet

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Adwords Automatic Broad Match

by admin on January 30, 2010

I don’t know about you, but sometimes my head spins with all the different match types Adwords offers, especially when it comes to leveraging their fuzzy logic (which you definitely WANT to do).

I mean, there’s exact match, phrase match, broad match, expanded broad match, and now “automatic broad match”.  Throw in negative exacts, negative phrases,  etc. and you’ll have an aneurysm.

Jerrold Burke is a Senior Analyst in the PPC department at Rocket Clicks.  He proactively contacted me to suggest we do an audio which clarifies how to leverage Google’s fuzzy logic in SEARCH.

Most importantly, in this short and free MP3, we concentrated on Automatic Broad Match, the broadest of the broad.  It’s a feature still in Beta so you won’t yet see it in all accounts, but we’re pretty sure it’s coming down the pike for everyone.

If you happened to have opted into the Beta in 2008 and forgotten about it, you might find you’re dripping money when you look at your Search Query Report (or you might be pleasantly surprised to see the opportunities)

Here’s how to manage the Beast…

Enjoy!

Dr. G :-)

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Why Ignoring AdWords is Never an Option

January 29, 2010

Here’s a conversation I repeat often which makes my brain hurt!
It goes something like this:
MARKETER:  ”I think Google’s become entirely too random and unfair with their Quality Score system, so I’m just going to focus on SEO”
GLENN: “OK, well, where does SEO Traffic come from?”
MARKETER: “Uhm, well, I guess it comes mostly from Google”
GLENN: “So, [...]

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Terry Dean Says He Can “Take Me”

January 28, 2010

Yesterday I  was talking to  Terry Dean on the phone and he was pestering me about getting a certain product done.   (I kind of asked him to do this).
Anyway, in the end I made a snippy comment about how he couldn’t do anything about it if I didn’t come through because I was so [...]

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The Problem with Making Too Much Money

January 27, 2010

I know, I know… you’re all saying “I’ll take that problem”, right?
But as a site starts to grow “fat on the land”, a strange phenomenon develops I call “making money in spite of yourself”.
What does that mean and why is it a problem?
Spend some time examining the most successful sites in any market and [...]

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Rambo Sucks at Marketing

January 25, 2010

There’s a repetitive conversation I’ve had with my coaching students about choosing the right market, and more specifically the right ENTRY POINT into a market, which I think bears your close attention.  (It came to a head a few weeks ago with a new student who shall remain nameless, but rest assured I see this REPEATEDLY)
As [...]

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Hidden Dangers of a High Conversion Rate

January 24, 2010

Hi Again
Today I’d like to talk about a subtle distinction in marketing strategy which often gets obscured by the ruthless focus on increasing click through and conversion. Surprisingly, we might not always want these metrics to be as high as humanly possible.
It all comes back to what we’re trying to accomplish in our [...]

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More Math Can Make You Even More Money

January 20, 2010

The equation for the surface area of a wooden box is  (2 x (AB+BC+AC)) where the box has sides of length A, B, and C.
Who cares?  You do, if you want to make more money from your website.
You don’t have to understand the equation, pass a test on it, or even run it through a spreadsheet…
What [...]

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A Little Math Can Make You More Money

January 17, 2010

I have a love affair Sharon is VERY jealous of… with math.
And I’m not talking about the kind of “slap-your-own-forehead-it-makes-my-brain-hurt” stuff you were thrilled to be done with after high school or college…
I’m talking about simple formulas which reveal valuable patterns most people just don’t know about.
Let’s start in the real world before we talk [...]

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Obliterating Writer’s Block (for Marketers)

January 13, 2010

For marketers, writing is everything.
Salesletters, autoresponders, blogs, broadcasts, tweets… as technology grows, so do our opportunities for contact with our market.
And when you communicate valuable things… MORE FREQUENCY = MORE MONEY.
(Seriously… once you’ve got a list that likes you, you’re MUCH MUCH MUCH better off with 50 A- or B+ points of contact than 5 [...]

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