Government stuff, on AdWords. Door-busting CTRs, conversion rates as respectable as that lady always sitting in the front row at church, nice ROI. Two months down the road, the AdWords campaign was in trouble. Sure, the CTRs were decent, but the conversion rate was uglier than the business end of a sharpee. Nothing seemed to make the conversion budge either; I threw up new landing pages like condos in Shanghai, but lead production stayed stubbornly low. know how to play good cop / bad cop with an AdWords report. Post on Google Buzz. MORE >>

keyword is a word or search term that someone types into Google, Bing or any other search engine when they’re looking for information online. All of this data can be found from the Google Adwords Keyword Tool amongst others. There’s If you type in the term: “Facebook” on the Google AdWords Keyword Tool, you’ll get this result: Competition: Low. While we would imagine the conversion rate would be pretty high, but there may not be many searches on Google for this overly long keyword. found on your site. billion. MORE >>

SEM changes take effect in a matter of minutes. You decide exactly which landing page to send traffic to for each keyword–without worrying that a minor edit to the page, or Google’s next algorithm update, will annihilate your ranking. How to Handle the AdWords Ad Rotation Changes by Search Engine Watch. ” Top 5 ways to use AdWords’ new Auction Insights tool by PPC Hero. Paid Search: Top 10 Ways To Lower Cost per Conversion & Improve ROI by Fathom Blog. 10 Quick Adwords Optimizations Tips for All PPC-ers by LunaMetrics. by PPC Hero. MORE >>

The next interview in the B2B Marketing thought leader interview series is with Terry Whalen, a partner at CPC Search , a full-service SEM agency that optimizes PPC campaigns on behalf of its clients. It’s relatively easy to measure revenue via Google AdWords using a ‘purchase’ conversion tag that passes through dynamic revenue variables to AdWords reporting. But for B2B, we are typically only measuring a lead submission via AdWords, and all leads are not created equal. Editor's note: For example, using Salesforce for Google AdWords.) MORE >>

Optimization—the greatest results for the lowest cost—is the goal of every AdWords campaign manager. What are two of the simplest ways to optimize AdWords campaigns? Google is constantly changing and upgrading its AdWords tools; which recent enhancements are most important to understand and take advantage of? Click-through rate (CTR) is the single most important factor in determining Quality Score, which is as important as bid level in determining how highly an ad will appear in search results. Is The Hype Over Google AdWords Quality Score Justified? MORE >>