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Increase CTR Using Keyword Insertion with Default Text

Last month my colleague Libby Thomas wrote an introduction to Dynamic Text Insertion . You may remember she mentioned that a study has shown that inserting the exact keyword into a paid listing improves CTR by 38% on average. Keyword Insertion With adCenter, the easiest way to include the search term...

Posted to adCenter Blog for Advertisers (Weblog) by Phil Chapman - MSFT on 10-19-2008
Search and the Art of Fly Fishing: Optimizing for Your Customers’ Buying Cycle

Search engine advertising is about moving your customer from search page to landing page. It’s about selling the click but selling it to the right person, the person likely to buy your product, service, subscription, or information. It’s about the customer, a fact that some advertisers seem to overlook...

Posted to adCenter Blog for Advertisers (Weblog) by Charles Thrasher on 10-08-2008
UK Search Spend Up 28% – How Does This Affect You?

The IAB has announced today that UK internet advertising spend in the first half of 2008 grew by 21% compared with the same period the year before. Online advertising now has a healthy 19% share of the UK’s total advertising budget with marketers allocating £1.7B of their budgets to online channels....

Posted to adCenter Blog for Advertisers (Weblog) by Mel Carson - MSFT on 10-07-2008
Dynamic Text Insertion - Introducing adCenter’s Superhero

Following on from Kate's advice on how to manage your PPC campaign during the "downturn" , I'm going to add another secret weapon to your marketing armoury to help you squeeze even better ROI out of your adCenter Search Ad activity. Arguably one of the most important criteria for a...

Posted to adCenter Blog for Advertisers (Weblog) by Libby Thomas - MSFT on 09-18-2008
Tips on Preparing Your SEM Campaigns for the Online Holiday Shopping Season

Personally, I don’t understand the people who consider Labor Day weekend to be the start of the Holiday shopping season, but they most certainly are out there -- my sister-in-law is one of them. She starts thinking about the Holidays right after Memorial Day weekend, carefully adding to her shopping...

Posted to adCenter Blog for Advertisers (Weblog) by Tina Kelleher - MSFT on 09-16-2008
Getting Started with adCenter: Ads

Hi friends! It’s me again, here to share with you the basics on how to get ads set up in your adCenter account. Be sure to check out parts one and two of this series: Getting started with adCenter: creating campaigns and Getting started with adCenter: creating ad groups . You can create ads individually...

Posted to adCenter Blog for Advertisers (Weblog) by Kristee Bingham - MSFT on 09-09-2008
Tips to make sure your dynamic ads appear as capitalized in adCenter

It’s no secret that using dynamic ads is a great way to improve relevance and thereby increase your CTR, but in order for your ads to show up the way you want them to, you need to make sure you’re using the right formatting. You can learn more about dynamic ads by visiting the adCenter help files, or...

Posted to adCenter Blog for Advertisers (Weblog) by Tina Kelleher - MSFT on 07-10-2008
Re: Dynamic Text in Ad Creative

Unless there's been a recent change of which I'm unaware (I know I'm hedging my bet here but it's 6:00 in the morning and I'm just not up to research this early), you can use the complete range of dynamic values in your destination URL. {Keyword} {MatchType} {QueryString} {OrderItemID...

Posted to adCenter Advertiser (Forum) by Charles Thrasher on 06-13-2008
AdCenter Optimization Quick Reference Guide

I'd like to share the checklist I use daily for quick optimization tips for my adCenter clients. Here are some common scenarios and possible steps to address them. Low CTR? Test multiple ads Repeat ads that have higher CTR Remove poor performers Static ads: Capitalize the first letter in keywords...

Posted to adCenter Blog for Advertisers (Weblog) by Shefali Singla - MSFT on 06-11-2008
Re: Dynamic Text in Ad Creative

Nav: If you mean the {keyword:default} syntax where "default" is a value used if the dynamic keyword violates editorial rules, then it's already in place. It works just like you would expect in Google except that the {keyword} doesn't control capitalization. {Keyword}, {KeyWord}, and...

Posted to adCenter Advertiser (Forum) by Charles Thrasher on 06-10-2008

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Browse by Category: Dynamic Text in Advertiser

Increase CTR Using Keyword Insertion with Default Text

Search and the Art of Fly Fishing: Optimizing for Your Customers’ Buying Cycle

UK Search Spend Up 28% – How Does This Affect You?

Dynamic Text Insertion - Introducing adCenter’s Superhero

Tips on Preparing Your SEM Campaigns for the Online Holiday Shopping Season

Getting Started with adCenter: Ads

Tips to make sure your dynamic ads appear as capitalized in adCenter

Re: Dynamic Text in Ad Creative

AdCenter Optimization Quick Reference Guide

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Welcome to the adCenter Learning Center on www.advertising.microsoft.com/adcenter-learning-center Posted by: Kelley Myers on 09/24/2008 in: adCenter Advertiser

the best Add-in features Posted by: jeremys on 09/22/2008 in: adCenter Advertiser: Add-in Beta for Excel 2007

Reminder: Back up your data for adCenter Desktop before Aug 7 Posted by: Carolyn Miller - MSFT on 08/06/2008 in: adCenter Advertiser: adCenter Desktop Beta

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adCenter feedback & feature requests Posted by: Carolyn Miller - MSFT on 03/26/2008 in: adCenter Advertiser

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