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PPC

What’s Inside the Google Adwords Quality Score?

by Greg Patterson on November 1, 2009

Quality Score Overview
So what is the Adwords Quality Score? According to Google:
“Quality Score for Google and the search network is a dynamic metric assigned to each of your keywords. It’s calculated using a variety of factors and measures how relevant your keyword is to your ad group and to a user’s search query. The higher [...]

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Keyword Match Types are Critical to PPC Success

by Greg Patterson on October 30, 2009

Understanding the three different match types for your PPC campaigns is one of the fundamental skills any good search marketer must be able to master. Use these incorrectly and you will quickly blow your budget, not generate any decent sales volume and have a very unhappy boss to answer to!
The three match types:

[Exact Match]
“Phrase Match”
Broad [...]

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