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		<title>Adwords Change History &#8211; Map your Moves</title>
		<link>http://theppcbook.com/2008/05/20/adwords-change-history-map-your-bad-moves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 19:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Hudson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adwords raises the bar yet again. A newer feature from the folks at Das Google, we can now see our campaign changes mapped against performance metrics. This is quite simply a brilliant feature. Performance slowed down? Check the graph. Need to check your campaign analyst performance? Check the graph. Wondering which of the 42 changes [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Adwords raises the bar yet again. A newer feature from the folks at Das Google, we can now see our campaign changes mapped against performance metrics. This is quite simply a brilliant feature.<br />
<a href='http://theppcbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/changehistory.jpg'><img src="http://theppcbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/changehistory.jpg" alt="" title="changehistory" width="282" height="267" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-257" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Performance slowed down?</strong> </p>
<p>Check the graph.</p>
<p><strong>Need to check your campaign analyst performance?</strong> </p>
<p>Check the graph.</p>
<p><strong>Wondering which of the 42 changes you made this month increased your sales?</strong> </p>
<p>Check the graph.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a visual cause and effect, basically. Very, very useful. Love it!</p>
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		<title>MFA  &#8211; Not fade away</title>
		<link>http://theppcbook.com/2007/06/22/mfa-not-fade-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Hudson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is an MFA? It&#8217;s all the &#8216;bogus&#8217; sites that are optimized by publishers who, let&#8217;s say, have an interest in high CTR. MFA&#8217;s are also what all the white hat establishment get up in arms about, complaining about the quality of these sites and how they hurt our industry. Well, I just started running [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scraper_site">MFA</a>? It&#8217;s all the &#8216;bogus&#8217; sites that are optimized by publishers who, let&#8217;s say, have an interest in high CTR. </p>
<p>MFA&#8217;s are also what all the <a href="http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum89/3253.htm">white hat establishment</a> get up in arms about, complaining about the quality of these sites and how they hurt our industry. </p>
<p>Well, I just started running the <a href="http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=52762">new placement performance</a> reports available through adwords, and I&#8217;m finding what most serious PPC advertisers already knew. </p>
<p><strong>MFA converts, big time. </strong></p>
<p>Are MFA&#8217;s a good thing for the industry long term? Of course not.</p>
<p>Run some of these reports yourself, and you will see what blackhatters have known all along, and also why it&#8217;s taken so long for Google to offer up this information. MFA sites are <a href="http://www.irishwonder.syndk8.co.uk/2007/02/27/the-end-of-mfa-era/">simply too valuable</a> to Google for them to give up on. </p>
<p>Still, blackhatters are quaking in their boots about this new information becoming available. I personally don&#8217;t think they have much to worry about. Why? Because your average advertiser has no idea, no time, and no inclination to go through the trouble of actually running this report.</p>
<p>With my biggest client right now, I just ran a placement report for the last 7 days. What did I find? Probably 40-50% MFA, or borderline MFA. Some of them converting at 60%. </p>
<p>60%? I&#8217;ll take it. Parked domain traffic? Now I&#8217;ve got a real problem with that&#8230;</p>
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