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What is the Best SpyFu Alternative?

SpyFu is a popular tool for SEO and PPC competitor research, but many people are searching for an alternative. Why? Maybe you want to test a tool with a free trial (or a limited free account), or perhaps you’re looking for deeper insights — including what landing pages competitors are using for each ad or keyword or how long they’ve been bidding on a particular keyword. Maybe you’re simply looking for a fresh perspective on competitor data.
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AdWords Quality Score Tips: What Is Quality Score & Why Does It Matter?

AdWords experts talk a lot about Quality Score and how important it is for getting better results, but we realized that not everyone understands how AdWords Quality Score system works and why it matters for your AdWords campaigns. This post provides a detailed explanation about how Google's Quality Score rating system works along with some tips on how you can improve your scores.
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15 Default AdWords Settings That Are Draining Your Bank Account & What to Do about It

AdWords has a few dirty little secrets they don't want you to know about. The first is that their "Quality Score" is weighted to provide more clicks for ads with the highest click through rate (CTR). Why? Because they make money every time someone clicks your ad. The second is that the advice AdWords and its reps give isn't always in your best interest. In fact, more often than not, it mostly helps Google to make more money by getting you to bid on more keywords or by increasing your budget (although you can get some really good advice from AdWords reps from time to time).
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6 Must Use AdWords Extensions for Local Businesses

Ad extensions are one of the most underutilized Google AdWords features. For some, it's an extremely useful tool to drive more traffic to your website, but for many others, it's underutilized or simply ignored. For local businesses competing in the paid search space, this should never be the case. AdWords Extensions, when used correctly, allow you to take up more real estate in the SERPs. This is done with the addition of extra information pertaining to your business such as contact info, product info, reviews, and more.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: PPC Lessons Learned from Black Friday/Cyber Monday

  Google Adwords sits on the middle to the bottom of the funnel for most marketing campaigns. Normally, prospects go to the Google search bar and type in a search term because they have a problem they want to solve. Therefore, if your product solves that problem, you’ll have a good chance of converting the traffic. It also means that the most converting keywords usually connect to a finite set of terms since there are only so many people searching for your product or service each month. But there are a few occasions where people are willing to hand their credit card over to you even though their search terms are not directly related to your product. Black Friday and Cyber Monday are two of those times.
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A Look at Uber’s Landing Page Testing from 2015

Here at iSpionage, we've built some unique features that make it easy for companies and advertisers to keep a close eye on their competition. One of those features is landing page surveillance technology that monitors competitor landing pages and emails and saves screenshots whenever changes are made. It's a great way to know what your competition is up to and to get landing page ideas for your own campaigns. To give you an idea of what this looks like, we're sharing a sampling of landing page changes Uber's made so far in 2015 that we discovered with our landing page surveillance technology. It's not a complete list of every single change they made or tested, but it will give you an idea about what headlines and styles they've experimented with.
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Are You Bidding on Too Many AdWords Keywords?

I recently read an article by Larry Kim on Search Engine Watch titled "Attention Keyword Hoarders: You Need to Delete 98% of Your AdWords Keywords - Here's Why." He begins by talking about an AdWords account that's bidding on 273,000 keywords but only gets impressions on 3372 of them (1.2%).
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Google Call Tracking Interview with Anthony Nichols from Ethology

Anthony Nichols is a paid media analyst for Ethology and works directly with both client and account teams on all items related to paid search, display media, and retargeting. He has four years experience working with national brands like AAA, Culligan, and American Signature Inc. When Google call tracking first came out, Ethology was selected as a beta tester which means they've been using it for several months now. We decided to talk with Anthony about their experience to learn more about the lessons they've learned.
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How to Choose the Right PPC Payment Model for Your Business

Whether you’re just starting to consider driving traffic using pay-per-click or you’ve been involved in PPC for several years but still want to save money, taking a closer look at the payment models available can help you decide which works best for your specific needs. Every payment model has its own pros and cons, and knowing the differences can help you figure out how to plan your budget and plan your success accordingly.
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