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You Might Be a PPC Nerd If…

08.27.08 | Permalink |

So I was taking a look at Digg today and saw the below headline and immediately was reminded of dynamic keyword insertion.  It got me thinking of other little idiosyncrasies or traits search marketers have.  I found a listing traits of an SEO Nerd, but none for PPC so I created one.

  1. You visit Google.com, Yahoo.com and Live.com so many times per day that you’re one of the first to notice if something doesn’t look quite the same - like a new favicon.
  2. Are doing something completely unrelated to PPC when all of a suddenly you compare it to PPC or think you could turn it into a test for one of your campaigns
  3. You’ve tried to explain what you to do people and they immediately sneer and say “oh, you make those pop up ads? I hate those things.”
  4. 65,536 rows in excel is just not enough, and hope 1,048,576 (for Excel 2007)  is enough
  5. You don’t find it odd to search for the same term 15 times a day. Everyday.
  6. You throw words like concatenate, vlookup and pivot table around as though everyone should know what they are
  7. You remember the days when you actually believed the phrase “Do no evil.”
  8. You quietly look over people’s shoulders as they perform searches for “market research”. 
  9. AdWords Scheduled System Maintenance over the weekend gets you scared of what your account will look like on Monday
  10. You despise affiliates, even if you are one
  11. Being at a bar at 3 am with your reps is still technically a business meeting
  12. You read 4 different articles on the same issue just to see other people’s viewpoints on it
  13. You have the engines’ or your reps’ phone number stored into your phone or worse yet, have them memorized
  14. You use multiple browsers so you can see un-personalized Google search results

Do you have any of your own?

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