AdWords Advanced Location Targeting

AdWords Advanced Location Targeting

Excellent! – Google’s advanced location targeting is now allowing much better control over displaying your ads to certain audiences. Note this applies to the search network only not the display network. You’ll find the controls titled ‘Advanced location options’ in the Locations and languages section of your campaign settings and the targeting options are as follows: 1. Target using either Physical Location or Search Intent Your ad can be...

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SEO Checklist

SEO Checklist

I’ve had a few people ask about where they can see a checklist to help with SEO so without further ado I’ve scribbled up the following checks. Its not exhaustive, I think a detailed exhaustive checklist would probably take up several pages but this should be enough for most applications. If I forgot something or you just want to comment or question anything please comment below. I promise to...

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Good Logo Design

Good Logo Design

Many small businesses use logos as a part of their branding so obviously they use them on their websites and sometimes as image backlinks or gravatars to spread brand awareness around other sites too. It’s usually best to get a professional logo designer on the job as they invariably come up with a design which is far more professional (and more likely to impress clients) than self designed efforts!...

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Landing Pages

Landing Pages

There are several approaches to good landing page layout whether you are driving organic or paid traffic there but above all its important to remember what it is you want the visitor to do! Take a look at all the tradies web pages out there that talk about who the tradesman is and/or what he does, (maybe even where he does it if he is smart!) and then the...

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Your SEO and Meta Titles, Keywords and Descriptions

Your SEO and Meta Titles, Keywords and Descriptions

Possibly one of the most basic yet misunderstood aspects of search engine optimisation is that of a web page’s meta information, those ‘hidden words’ that so many assume to be the key to great search engine rankings. While there are many variants of meta tags, the ones we tend to think about for SEO purposes are the title, keywords and description meta tags. Meta Title – The meta title...

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Using Google’s Display (Content) Network Effectively

Using Google’s Display (Content) Network Effectively

Many AdWords users are unaware they are already using this other side of AdWords and only become aware of it when they are advised to turn it off. Google AdWords accounts have it enabled by default but really (even by their own advice) it should be handled separately and differently. If you are not already familiar with it, the Display Network (previously known as the Content Network) is the...

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Understanding Your AdWords Quality Score

Many small businesses use the Google Adwords program to get traffic to their sites without ever considering their keyword quality scores, yet these QS scores are critically important in determining the success or otherwise of an Adwords campaign. First things first, make sure you can see those scores! In the Keywords tab of your Google Adwords Campaign, click the word ‘Columns’ that appears just above the traffic graph then...

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