Articles tagged Google Adwords

Google Adwords is probably one of the most popular PPC, or pay per click, advertising models available online. It allows advertisers to place adverts alongside Google’s search engine results. Advertisers pay Google a nominal amount each time somebody clicks on one of their ads.

On this page, you’ll find links to articles about Google Adwords.

AdWords To Review Paused Ads

According to a recent announcement by Google AdWords, Google will now (as of last week actually), be reviewing paused ads in the same way that live ads are reviewed.

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Google Adwords +1

By now, I’m pretty sure that almost everybody knows about Google’s +1 button. The +1 button is part of Google’s new social recommendation system, and there’s been quite a lot of discussion on how much impact it will have on search results.

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Google Adwords Affiliate Auction Policy

Keeping Google’s Affiliate Auction policy in mind is usually a good idea for anybody who manages more than one account on Google AdWords. The AdWords Affiliate Policy effectively states that Google will display only one advert per top-level domain.

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Even Google Makes Mistakes

Technically, we all know that Google makes mistakes sometimes. It’s pretty much an extremely complicated piece of software, that they make changes to every day. (In the last year, Google made over 550 changes to their search algorithm.) So it’s not surprising that it breaks sometimes. In fact, we should be impressed that it works so well.

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Adwords Broad Match Modifier Live

A couple of months ago, we wrote an article about the initial limited roll-out of the testing phase of Google Adwords new broad match modifier. At the time, the new modifier was only available for Adwords users in the UK and Canada, but we’re pleased to be able to say that it is now active and available in South Africa too.

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Adwords Click To Call

Adwords Click To Call is a Google Adwords service that allows users with internet enabled mobile phones to call your business directly, simply by clicking on the link in your Adwords advert.

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Tips For Successful Adwords Campaigns

In keeping with our recent focus on Google Adwords, here are a few of Google’s own tips for running a successful Adwords PPC campaign.

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Using Adwords For Organic SEO

Although not many people seem to realise it, Adwords can actually be a search engine optimisation tool as well as a paid traffic generator. In addition to bringing in traffic from your PPC advertisements, it can help you with your organic rankings too.

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PPC Tips For The Google Display Network

Google Adwords is without doubt one of the most popular, and widely used, pay per click (or PPC) advertising providers on the internet. Adwords offers two types of advertising systems, the search network, and the content network.

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Separating The Adwords PPC Search & Content Networks

One of the most important things that you have to remember when you’re managing a Google Adwords Pay Per Click campaign is that the content network, and the search network, are two entirely different things.

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Adwords Landing Page Quality Score

It appears that a recent change (or increase in enforcement) of the Google guidelines for Pay Per Click landing page quality score has seen an unknown number of Adwords customers either sternly warned, or banned outright, often with little or no explanation, and allegedly without recourse.

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Register Your Trademark With Google

With recent questions regarding cyber-squatting and the protection of domain names, we’ve queried Google itself about the importance of trademarks when it comes to online marketing.

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Nobody Can Guarantee First Place On Google

If anybody ever tells you that they can guarantee you a first place result on Google, then it’s time to tread very warily. Net Age has been in the business of search engine optimisation for more than ten years, and we won’t guarantee any such thing.

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Analytics Data And PPC

If you use a pay per click campaign as part of your online marketing efforts, you should be tracking and analysing all your data, and you’re all doing that, right? If you are, then you might have noticed that your PPC dashboard numbers don’t necessarily match your analytics dashboard data. In this article, we’ll suggest a couple of reasons why it might be happening.

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Google Analytics Guru - Avinash Kaushik

Few names stand out as much, in the field of website analytics, as that of Avinash Kaushik, co-founder of Market Motive, author of Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, and Google’s official Analytics Evangelist.

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New Boss For Google SA

Business Day reports that there’s a new face at the head of Google South Africa, replacing Stafford Maisie, who stepped down in April, after 18 months at the helm of the South African division of the search engine giant.

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New Boss For Google SA

Business Day reports that there’s a new face at the head of Google South Africa, replacing Stafford Maisie, who stepped down in April, after 18 months at the helm of the South African division of the search engine giant.

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New Boss For Google SA

Business Day reports that there’s a new face at the head of Google South Africa, replacing Stafford Maisie, who stepped down in April, after 18 months at the helm of the South African division of the search engine giant.

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Quick Guide To Google Applications

Google makes a wide variety of different applications available to their users, most of them freely. As well as being free, many of them are fun, engaging, useful, or all three. For your convenience, here’s a list of Google application, as well as links to them.

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