Top three conversion rate optimisation tools

Here are some handy tools that we use in our conversion rate optimisation service that could help readers understand this process better.

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Posted 09 November 2009 10:45am by Shane Quigley with 5 comments

AdWords - Preferred Bidding and Budget Optimiser or not?

A few months ago, Google released a couple of new alternatives to the 'maximum cost-per-click' bids on Adwords, called Preferred Bidding and Budget Optimiser.

Preferred Bidding allows you to specify how much you'd like to pay for each click on average, and Adwords will adjust your bids accordingly. Budget Optimiser takes your daily budget and tries to generate as many clicks as possible for your money.

But is this really what you want to be doing? Both of these options are set at campaign level, and neither looks at the conversion rate of individual keywords or Adgroups, or indeed the value of a conversion.

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Posted 25 July 2007 15:59pm by Shane Quigley with 0 comments

AdWords Agency Secrets Revealed!

As the owner of a search marketing agency, I am constantly trying to find ways of increasing the awareness of search within the marketing community.

For too long now search marketing agencies have hidden their knowledge behind a wall of technical jargon in an attempt to keep ownership of these techniques, but this practice is holding back the growth of our industry.

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Posted 11 July 2007 14:02pm by Shane Quigley with 1 comment