Cost Per Click (CPC) refers to the actual price you pay for each click in your-pay-per-click (PPC) marketing campaigns. what is a cpc? A “click” on one of your PPC text ads represents a visit, or an interaction with your company’s products/services. Every click in a PPC campaign represents attention from a person who...
What Is Quality Score? (QS)
Quality Score is Google’s rating of the quality and relevance of both keywords and PPC ads. It is used to determine your cost per click and multiplied by your maximum bid to determine your ad rank in the ad auction process. Your QS depends on multiple facts, including: Your click-through rate (CTR) The relevance...
Click Through Rate
Achieving a high click-through rate is essential to your PPC success, because it directly affects both your Quality Score and how much you pay every time someone clicks you search ad. Click-through rate (CTR) is a metric that measures the number of licks advertisers receive on their ads per there number of impressions. so...
PPC Keyword Research
Keyword research for PPC can be incredibly time-consuming, but it is also VERY important. Your entire PPC campaign is built around your chosen keywords, and the most successful AdWords advertisers continuously grow and refine their PPC keyword list. If you only do keyword research once, when you create your first campaign you are probably...
What Is Google Adwords?
Google Adwords is the single most popular PPC advertising system in the world. The AdWords platform enable businesses to create ads that appear on Google’s search engine and both Google properties. AdWords operates on a pay-per-click model, in which users bid on keywords and pay for each click on their advertisements. Every time a...
What Is PPC? – Introduction
PPC stands for PAY-PER-CLICK, a model of internet marketing i which advertisers pay a fee each time one of their adverts is clicked.Basically, it’s a way of ‘buying’ visits to your website, rather than earning those visits organically. Search engine advertising is one of the most popular forms of PPC. It allows advertisers to...
Minimising Your PPC Costs
Pay-per-click advertising is one of the most powerful tools available for online marketers, giving companies of all sizes an opportunity to reach their audience quickly and efficiently, whatever their budget. The accessibility of PPC makes it easy for anyone to run their own campaigns, but costs can quickly mount if you don’t follow best...
It’s Happening.. Longer Tweets From 19th September!
Changes to Twitter that will see individuals and businesses able to create longer tweets will come into effect on 19 September, the company has confirmed. For many, the 140 character limit is a struggle – particularly when talking to more than one person at a time. But Twitter didn’t want to specifically extend the...
Social Media Lessons from the US Election
7 Hashtags to Follow With the 2016 US presidential election inching closer, candidates are ramping up their social media efforts. While 2012 was considered the first social media election, its 2016 successor will likely blow it out of the water in terms of engagement and overall impact. Below are seven election-related hashtags to follow...
How Pokemon Go Has Taken Over The World & Web!
In the week that political resignations, leadership battles and market turmoil dominated news headlines, a certain monster-hunting mobile game was busy making waves online. Pokemon Go’s mixture of gaming and reality has proved a huge success. SimilarWeb says players are using Pokemon Go for an average of 43 minutes a day – that’s more...