Optimizing Google Adwords and other PPC campaigns naturally consume time and effort because of all the data gathering and testing you need to do. However, there are techniques that are known to improve any campaign's performance quickly. Running different ad variations is the most popular technique to optimize PPC campaigns. Some of your ad versions will gather more clicks than others do; it's just a matter of discarding low-performing ads.

Still, there are other ways to fine-tune your pay-pe...

Click fraud is a serious problem on PPC campaigns. Google Adwords is not immune from this problem. Researchers estimate $1.6 billion were lost to click fraud as of 2008. Click Fraud happens when competitors click on your ads to crack your ad budget or when web robots are setup to generate false clicks on your ads.

PPC networks, including Google Adwords, confirm the existence of click fraud and are working hard to solve it. All we can do as PPC advertisers is to tweak our campaigns to reduce t...