The Position² team was very excited when we announced the formal release of our in-house Bid Management platform late last year, and we have been seeing tremendous success in its adoption across companies. We have been developing and using it for the last four years for our existing customer base. And yes, there are [...]

The Position² team was very excited when we announced the formal release of our in-house Bid Management platform late last year, and we have been seeing tremendous success in its adoption across companies. We have been developing and using it for the last four years for our existing customer base. And yes, there are still a few skeptics out there who do not realize the importance or need for automated bid management. Would you really want to use a scissor to mow your lawn?

Building A Case For Automated Bid Management

If you manage PPC campaigns with a budget of more than $50,000 per month, you will relate to the ... Read more...

Is it true that we have to set a CPC bid limit when we’re using automatic bidding? The above question will be answered in the following paragraphs. With automatic bidding, the Search Engine Marketing systems (like: Adwords, Adcenter & Search Marketing) adjust the bids automatically to earn the most clicks possible within the given budget. It [...]

Is it true that we have to set a CPC bid limit when we’re using automatic bidding? The above question will be answered in the following paragraphs. With automatic bidding, the Search Engine Marketing systems (like: Adwords, Adcenter & Search Marketing) adjust the bids automatically to earn the most clicks possible within the given budget. It isn't possible to set a specific CPC bid. However, we can set an upper limit on the CPC bids for the entire campaign. This is the CPC bid limit. Specify a bid limit and the Search Engine Marketing system will never bid over the specified limit for any single click. If it's important for us to control the cost of individual clicks on our ad, it's good ... Read more...

The fuel that drives every PPC campaign is your keyword list. The success of any PPC campaign will depend on the keywords that you target. We need to target the right keywords and the list should be exhaustive and robust. The Google Wonder Wheel is one such tool which helps to build your keyword list [...]

The fuel that drives every PPC campaign is your keyword list. The success of any PPC campaign will depend on the keywords that you target. We need to target the right keywords and the list should be exhaustive and robust. The Google Wonder Wheel is one such tool which helps to build your keyword list and also gives you new themes and ad group ideas. The tool is an easy way to research your niche to find keywords that are current and relevant to your PPC marketing campaign. It not only gives you an endless supply of related search terms to look at, but also allows you to study competition. Google Wonder Wheel by definition is a graphical wheel display of relevant ... Read more...

Let’s continue our optimization process to improve PPC campaigns’ performance: Go Vertical Going vertical is an effective method to lower your cost per click (CPC) and to improve the overall traffic quality. The quality also tends to be better because of the increased propensity for the buyers to use vertical search engines in their purchase decision [...]

Let’s continue our optimization process to improve PPC campaigns’ performance: Go Vertical Going vertical is an effective method to lower your cost per click (CPC) and to improve the overall traffic quality. The quality also tends to be better because of the increased propensity for the buyers to use vertical search engines in their purchase decision process. This gives a greater opportunity for those who are with limited budgets to more effectively spend their money online and to get higher ROI. Keyword Research While doing the keyword research we debate constantly on what to use with regards to long tail keywords or the head phrases and which would perform better and get more results. Head phrases are generic and broad keywords. The search volumes ... Read more...