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As marketers, we often hear questions like “does Google AdWords really work?” or “what’s so good about Google AdWords?”. Sometimes we’ll even get the occasional “what is Google AdWords and how does it work?”. Essentially, Google AdWords is a PPC advertising tool that can reach very specific targets and for minimal cost! So here’s what
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The hair on the back of your neck bristles with anticipation, your fingertips are electrified, your breathing is deep and fast, your excitement barely contained as your legs shake knowing that this is the beginning of a new AdWords journey.

A General in the trenches, cut off from his sources of intelligence and reconnaissance, is in the same predicament as the grunt soldier, a grueling and grinding psychological torment with no assurance of victory and a likelihood of defeat. A General with full scope of the battlefield, a spy plane gathering intel on enemy position in relation to his own troops and a strategy to identify weaknesses and strengths, once again in relation to his own troops, is a General about to win the war.

Game changer. You hear it a lot in online marketing. Everything happens, changes and updates so fast that as soon as people have their head around the latest ‘game changer’ the game has just been changed. Again.

Some simple steps that will help you quickly boost your campaign’s Click Through Rate (CTR), which will naturally help improve keyword quality scores and decrease your cost per click.

The FIFA World Cup is in full swing which means my life has been taken over by FIFA Updates; 2AM matches and statistical analyses of the coaches and teams. I pay so much attention, that it almost seems like my research would have some sort of impact on the outcome of the games, of course, that’s not how it works. The other side of my life is search and for this reason I couldn’t help but draw a few similarities between the two areas.

Let’s dive straight into Part 2 by defining a couple of different types of conversions. Generally from an SEO standpoint I tend to use the word conversion to mean lead, so an email or phone call which is a direct result of the SEO work. This is when a potential customer searches a keyword, finds
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The relationship between keyword phrase length and % of traffic share is a relationship that needs to be taken into consideration when running a Google AdWords account. Studies have shown a direct relationship between keyword length and % of traffic share, as seen in this graph:

Over time Google has been making steady improvements to their search results, with the goal to make selecting a good and relevant website easier for Google users. Google is now using more image based snapshots in the search results; this feature is known as Google Instant Preview. In November 2010, Google introduced Google Instant Preview.
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Google has announced that they have updated the Google algorithm used to estimate traffic in the Google Keywords Tool, AdWords Traffic Estimator and on the Keywords Tab. This change, effective immediately and globally, will provide users with more accurate statistics for estimated clicks, costs and position. This is going to be useful for businesses that
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