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Pay Per Click Ads For Buying Cycle Stages: Part III

April 18th, 2008 · No Comments

The last post covered the consideration and purchase stages of the consumer buying cycle. Once the client has moved through these stages, messages should concentrate on retention and company advocacy discussed below.  

Retention/Advocacy
Creating ads for customers at the retention stage means creating reasons for repeat purchases. One way to encourage repeat purchases is advertising complimentary products. With the dog […]

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Pay Per Click Ads For Buying Cycle Stages: Part II

April 8th, 2008 · No Comments

The last post covered the awareness and interest stages of the consumer buying cycle. Once the client has moved through these stages, they move into the consideration and purchase stages discussed below. 
 Consideration/Purchase
The consideration stage occurs when the consumer is considering the purchase of a product or service. Consumers at this stage have done their research and are ready […]

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Pay Per Click Ads For Buying Cycle Stages: Part I

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

When writing ads for your product or service, it is important to consider the buying process consumers go through when deciding to purchase a product. For instance, a consumer that is in the awareness stage is gathering information and is not necessarily sure what he or she is looking for. In this case, you would […]

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Pay-Per-Link Click?

March 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Online advertising is seeing new methods for placing ads within the content of other sites. No I am not talking about Google’s AdSense program, which displays an advertiser’s ad on other sites within Google’s Content Network. I am referring to the in-text form of advertising that allows advertisers to bid on in-text links on other websites. […]

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Marketing Your Brand Can Be Cost Effective

March 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Advertising on Google AdWords’ Content Network has created mixed emotions among pay per click advertisers. Many have seen their ads receive thousands of impressions, but few clicks. Others have seen hundreds of clicks, but few conversions. With mixed results on the success of content network ads, some advertisers have turned away from advertising on this […]

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Google’s Quality Score Drives Up Advertising Costs

February 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Many advertisers have seen a large increase in their AdWords advertising expenses due to a sudden decrease in quality scores on their keywords. Keywords that once saw low cost-per-clicks and great quality scores have suddenly paused because advertisers can’t afford to pay the minimum bid. With the quality score being one of the largest factors […]

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Closing the Conversion Gap

February 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Tracking conversions generated by pay per click advertising is getting much easier for strictly e-commerce websites. Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing, Microsoft AdCenter, and other pay per click advertising networks are providing tracking script solutions to advertisers. Advertisers can place source codes in each ads destination url to capture information on click referrers. They can […]

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Reach Customers on the Mobile Devices They Love

February 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Consumers spend a large portion of their days texting, emailing, and searching for web pages, directions, phone numbers, movie times, and many other things on their cell phones, PDAs, and other mobile devices. With consumers becoming more and more accustomed to using mobile devices for internet access and everyday communication, advertisers are finding success in […]

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Monitoring Pay Per Click Effectiveness

January 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Having the ability to track your pay per click ROI is essential for running an effective advertising campaign. Many advertisers track click-through-rate or conversions to determine a campaign’s effectiveness. While these numbers do assist advertisers in determining which ad groups have the highest performance, there is still a missing link in determining which advertising outlets […]

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The New Cookie-Cutter Google AdWords Campaigns

January 17th, 2008 · No Comments

No two pay per click campaigns are created equal. Pay per click account managers pride themselves upon the fact that they create unique, specifically targeted campaigns for each account they manage. So where do the new Google campaign templates come into play? Who will actually use this function…and for what?
The Template Center allows campaign managers to create templates for […]

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