A Guide To AdWords: Making PPC Work For Your Business

The Small Business Marketing Report

Episode 59 of The Small Business Marketing Report Podcast

In the first of a 3 part series on the Google AdWords platform we discuss whether AdWords can work for any business.

There are some exceptions but not many, business objectives are an important aspect to consider. Certainly the statistics for using AdWords are very impressive, and the return on investment can be significant well implemented well.

It’s not only your business model and objectives that play a factor though, your website needs to be fit for purpose. In the show we cover some typical issues that can impact a Google AdWords campaign performance.

In the last section of this show we touch on the commitment required from the business to ensure AdWords is given a fair chance of success.

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How to Reduce Your Website’s Bounce Rate [PODCAST]

The Small Business Marketing Report

Episode 58 of The Small Business Marketing Report Podcast

A website’s bounce rate is often comes up in discussion, but do you know what it really is? If it matters? Or what impact it may have on the performance of your website and ultimately your business.

In this week’s episode we take a detailed look at bounce rate, answering some of these questions, and providing ideas of what you can do to turn your bounce rate around.

  • What is bounce rate?
    • A definition
    • Not the same as email bounce rate
  • Why does it matter?
    • A symptom of a web page not doing it’s job
    • It can be an SEO factor
    • What really matters
  • What bounce rate should you expect?
    • A low bounce rate doesn’t automatically mean good things!
  • How to reduce bounce rate
    • 3 ways to reduce bounce rate
    • Other ways
    • SEMalt and Buttons For Website referrals – how & why you should exclude this spam
    • Excluding your own IP address

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