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Aiming Clear
Recently, I observed a LinkedIn ad placed by aimClear Consulting Services. All it said was:

Good calls to action give a concise value proposition, and use strong language with an attention-grabbing sense of urgency to earn a click. AimClear’s ad… doesn’t have a call to action.
Log into your LinkedIn account and look at the ads [...]

Google offers four primary “match types” for keywords you can bid on in their AdWords platform, reflecting different degrees of specificity in your targeting. Understanding how they work in a basic way is handy, but even with that knowledge, it’s not always completely clear which you should choose for your campaigns. Scroll to the strategies [...]

The nature of the Facebook Ads system is such that numerous factors will inevitably lead to click-through rate decline. Unlike Google’s Quality Score, where CTR is a defined metric relating directly to impressions, Facebook does not give an indication of CTR’s effect on impressions - but we’ve seen its effects. It’s unclear whether or not [...]

Our PPC expert Laura Garrido has experienced a slew of frustrations using the LinkedIn DirectAds service for her clients. In order to illustrate some of DirectAds’ glitches, we attempted to set up a business profile on LinkedIn for the purpose of creating display ads. Here are some of the strengths and weaknesses we encountered during [...]

SES Chicago is one of the leading search and social marketing conferences and expos, covering search engine optimization (SEO), paid search advertising, social media, mobile, link building and more than 70 other sessions and training workshops.  NVI will be attending the event and our president, Guillaume Bouchard, will be giving a conference. The session has [...]

In this interview, we speak with Noran El-Shinnawy of Acquisio, a company that provides advanced PPC management software. Noran is a Marketing Manager there, and we caught up with her at SES Toronto 2010 and sat down to discuss some PPC management tactics and strategies.
Noran covered two main points. First, she discussed what she sees [...]

This is the first half of our interview with Jane Motz Hayes of Page Zero Media. We met Jane at SES Toronto 2010 while she was giving a free site clinic across from the NVI booth. So we asked her if she’d take a few minutes to discuss landing page optimization with us.
In this installment, [...]

In this interview, we chat with Eric Lacourciere at SES Toronto 2010. Eric is the Director of Sales for Acquisio, a company that provides advanced PPC tracking software.
The most interesting PPC trend that Eric shared with us is more and more PPC advertisers are looking for ways to both better track their social media campaigns [...]

This is a video interview with Ken Jurina, the President and CEO of Epiar, and SEM firm. We met up with Ken at Pubcon 2009, and decided to ask him about what’s going on in the world of PPC these days.
Ken discussed the importance of negative keywords, and how they’re integral to a well-managed PPC [...]

Pay per click (PPC) advertising is no different than most other forms of advertising in that you have just fractions of a second to make your pitch. That isn’t much time to get your message across and sell your product, which is why you’ll need to make the most of those 130 characters in your [...]