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Archive for November, 2006

Google AdWords Tip: The Best Google Ad I Ever Wrote

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 Read more about Google AdWords Tips

Here is one of the single best ads that I have ever written on Google AdWords. I have spent about three months trying to beat this winning ad copy but I have never been able to do it.

As you can see, the winning ad is pretty obvious. The keyword is “Stephen Pierce” and [...]

Google, Yahoo or Natural Search - Which Provides the Best Quality Visitors?

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 Read more about Articles

We asked ourselves this question recently and decided to compare buy rates across one of our popular sites.
Here’s what we found on analyzing 100,000 visitors.
Natural Search
4.51% of visitors finding us through natural search (typing in a keyword on Google and clicking on our site in the search results) made a purchase.
Google Adwords
4.00% of visitors from [...]

Writing Great Headlines: Don’t Overpromise

Monday, November 6th, 2006 Read more about Headlines

Here is a test of two headlines that I just wanted to share with you.  One headline was more subtle and the other one was a bit more aggressive.  It turns out that for the target audience of our client the subtle headline far outsold the more aggressive headline.  What was the difference?
Take a look:
Winning [...]

Google AdWords Tip: The Power of Stating a Clear Benefit

Friday, November 3rd, 2006 Read more about Articles

One marketing mantra that has existed for decades is the following: Emphasize benefits NOT features. This, also holds true most of the time when writing your Google AdWords ads and we are going to share one clear example with you below.
We tested two different ads. One emphasized a clear benefit “See Results [...]

Google AdWords Tip: The subtle influence of capitalization

Friday, November 3rd, 2006 Read more about Google AdWords Tips

I am always fascinated by the huge variance in results that I see in our Google AdWords ads due to changing the capitalization of our ad copy. Here is a very fascinating example that I wanted to share with you.
We wrote one ad copy where we capitalized every single word and one identical ad [...]