Understanding how your customers behave, not just that clicks sometimes convert to sales and sometimes don’t, is critical knowledge in the battle to constantly increase the ROI from a paid advertising campaign. Google’s recent addition of Search Funnels to AdWords accounts attempt to do just that. If you don’t already have conversion tracking implemented correctly, [...]

It’s an interesting dilemma. Should you, or should you not bid on your own brand? On the one hand, searchers already want to buy from you and might well find you in organic links where the clicks are free, so why pay for the click? On the other, there may be competitors bidding on your [...]

Assuming there aren’t more relevant ads to show for later searches in a session, Google will show your ad instead. Mostly, I would imagine that this doesn’t happen too often – most of the time, there will be other people bidding on the secondary terms.