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If you are a person who lives in the States and uses search engines such as Google or Yahoo to search for cheaper prescription drugs from Canada, you might already realize that, started earlier this week, you are no longer able to see any Canadian pharmacies advertising on Google thru Pay Per Click advertising (sponsored links).

That’s right! Google has updated its policy regarding online pharmacies advertising using AdWords. In essence, this is what Google had announced on February 9th, 2010:

There are two main aspects to this change:

Only VIPPS and CIPA certified pharmacies will be allowed to advertise
We’ve made the … Read more about How to Search for Canadian Prescription Drugs Under Google’s New Online Pharmacy Policy

Adwords has a new feature called the keyword bid ideas that provides keyword bidding recommendations based on your keyword performance in the past. The keyword bidding feature helps advertisers either increase the number of clicks (raise bids) or reduce the costs (lower bids) of keywords.

How it works

Adwords uses the bid simulator to generate bid ideas. It looks at the keyword, its quality score, competition, past week performance and ICC (Incremental cost per click) to determine the bidding opportunities.

Advantages

• The information will help advertisers make better decisions in terms of identifying keywords which generate more revenue or … Read more about Keyword bidding with Google Adwords’ Bid Ideas
  

To me, the most obvious feature that Adwords interface should include is revenue tracking. As of now, advertisers can only see their conversion value by pulling out a report (without using Google Analytics), which isn’t known to a lot of people. This begs the question: if Google is capable of recording conversion value, why can’t they just show it in real time as Yahoo! (well, with a few hours of statistic update delay) does?

Yahoo's Revenue Tracking

Well, call me paranoid if you want, but … Read more about What Functions Do You Think Google Adwords Interface Should Include?

Summary: testing ads it’s a time consuming tasks for any search marketer. The statistical significance of ad testing is missing but this can be changed. See below:

We, as search marketers, should spend most of the time creating, measuring and adapting the best performing keywords and ads, for our customers. In fact, one of the most time consuming activities in a PPC management company is the daunting task of ad testing. Nowadays, bid management can be automated, keywords research is not as hard as it used to be and reports customization it’s … Read more about Adwords Integration with Google Web Site Optimizer

One of the biggest questions advertisers have when manage their pay per click account is how much they should bid for their keywords. Bidding too high may incur too much cost and advertisers might not be able to sustain a profitable ROI, whether bidding too low might not allow their ads to be positioned at a visible spot.

There is a report in Google Analytics that allows advertisers to see at which positions their keywords receive the most visits, transactions, revenue, conversion rate, and etc.

Simply login into Google Analytics, select a report which has the proper filters applied. Then click on … Read more about Google Analytics – Keyword Positions

Google’s behavioural targeting has become a popular topic these days, and Yahoo has just recently added “Demographic Bidding”. But before we get familiar with the new, let’s review the old. I’ve put together a table of basic targeting options offered by the three major search engines (Google, Yahoo, and MSN).

All the information is gathered from each search engine’s help page.

Google

Yahoo!

MSN

Location Targeting Allows advertisers to target a specific geographical area, or a combination of areas. Their ads would only show up at the locations … Read more about PPC Targeting Options

Let’s discover the exact keywords searched by your visitors AND the matching type of the triggering keywords!

The problem: the match type of your Adwords keywords is not tracked by default by Adwords or Google Analytics. Let’s you bid on red shoes (broad, phrase and exact match) and someone comes to your website after searching for Vancouver red shoes. The Adwords (or Google Analytics) reports will only display clicks coming from red shoes, without the match type information you need. Was it broad or phrase match that triggered your ads?

The solution: A nice combo of Google Analytics … Read more about Powerful Google Adwords-Analytics Combo