How to Make PPC Ads Work for You?

How can you achieve success in Pay Per Click?

0. Get your website ready.

Make sure your website is ready to accept leads and has pages set up that contain good content about everything you do. I know this isn’t about pay per click marketing specifically, but you’re not ready for pay per click marketing if you aren’t ready to put your best foot forward and truly inform a visitor about why you are the best choice for them on a particular subject matter. And then your website must make it easy to become a lead.

Oftentimes, I am brought in when conversions are just not happening. I am then asked to review a marketing account for problems that is for the most part set up fine; it is the website itself that does not do what it needs to to turn a prospect into a customer. And that is far more expensive in the end than throwing money at pay-per-click. If it never converts a pay per click visitor, it’s not going to convert a less motivated visitor either.

 

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RSS Syndication – Defined, with Pros/Cons

Question:
On our blog, are we using RSS syndication? I went to a social media seminar, and they talked about how great RSS syndication was. My blog uses RSS, right?

Answer:
“RSS Syndication” as that seminar meant it is not something your blog does for you. What your blog does for you is…
A blog spreads the word using an RSS feed
You have a wordpress blog, so all your posts go out in an RSS feed. That’s just the programming language used by one and all blogs.

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How an SEO should be vetted

SEO and Recommendations When you’re looking at hiring an SEO, the search results bring you to the big boys – the ones that a small to medium sized business cannot possibly afford, or to SEO do-it-yourself software tools (and sometimes to complex sign-up forms for systems that may or may not  integrate well into your …

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