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Search Engine Watch
October 19, 2010
Thi Thumasathit |
Wag the Dog: The Tail of Bid Management Search marketers need to focus on maximizing relevance and conversion before bid management. Relying exclusively on bid management solutions to drive the success of a search campaign is letting the tail wag the dog.   |
Search Engine Watch
February 24, 2005
Heather Lloyd-Martin |
Forecasting Paid Search Traffic Despite the hype, being #1 in paid search results may not provide your company the desired bang for your marketing buck. Intelligently optimizing a paid search budget involves far more than setting random bid prices and guessing at returns. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
March 1, 2007
Alex Porter |
Alternative Media: Search-Engine Marketing: Click, Click ... Are You There? Pharma marketers turn to pay-per-click advertising to boost their product's reach. |
Search Engine Watch
July 13, 2009
Ron Jones |
PPC Bid Management 101 There is a healthy debate out there on whether or not bid management tools are really effective. It comes down to the complexity of your campaigns and whether or not using a bid management tool will help you save time and money. |
Search Engine Watch
October 15, 2009
Jason Tabeling |
Google Bid Simulator: A Step Toward Efficiency, Volume While some data in Google's new tool isn't available for all keywords, it's still a must-have for search marketers making bid management decisions. |
Search Engine Watch
January 17, 2005
Greg Jarboe |
Online Ads & Search: Looking Back, Looking Forward Paid search led the resurgence of online advertising in 2004 with a 34% increase in growth, and this trend is expected to continue over the coming five years. |
CRM
July 1, 2007
Colin Beasty |
Business Problem: A Company's Marketing Department Cannot Effectively Track and Manage Campaigns Across Multiple Search Engines. Tech Solution: Search engine marketing tools. |
Search Engine Watch
November 6, 2008
David Szetela |
The Account Quality Score: Money Pit for the Uninformed In Google AdWords, an ad's Quality Score calculation is based on how well the account's campaigns have performed over time. |
Search Engine Watch
May 27, 2004
Catherine Seda |
Managing a Search Advertising Budget You want top search result positions now, and you're willing to pay for them. But is your paid listing launch on hold until you can justify a budget and demonstrate ROI goals? |
Entrepreneur
August 2004
Catherine Seda |
In the Click Want all the right people to notice your business? Gone are the days when adding keywords in meta tags to your site produced rankings. You need to make the most of today's hottest marketing method--search engine optimization. |
Search Engine Watch
May 7, 2008
Eric Enge |
The Top 3 Reasons PPC Lead Gen Campaigns Miss Volume Targets - Part 2 Understanding how to analyze keywords using a waterfall analysis can give you a great deal of insight into what's happening with your campaign, and bring a sharp focus to the nature of the opportunities available to you. |
Search Engine Watch
January 31, 2008
Kevin Newcomb |
Search Marketers' Wish Lists, Part 2 Predictions of the future of Internet marketing from several search marketers and social media marketers. |
Fast Company
David T. Scott |
4 Reasons Why SEM Is Better Than SEO Search Engine Marketing -- placing ads that appear above search results -- should already be in your bag of tricks. It's is more accountable, because sites like Google offer in-depth data about the performance of your ads. |
Search Engine Watch
June 23, 2004
Dana Todd |
Use Caution when Going Broad with Overture and Google Running a pay-per-click (PPC) campaign on Google and Overture can get complicated, especially now that both networks offer different types of keyword matching options when placing bids. Here's how to avoid trouble and maximize your campaign's effectiveness. |
CRM
September 3, 2015
Jessica Hawthorne-Castro |
With Campaign Metrics, You Need to Go Beyond the Basics Here are four metrics to make your decision making more data-driven -- and enhance profits. |
Search Engine Watch
April 1, 2010
Jason Tabeling |
Bid Management: The Day-Trading of the Paid Search World There are PhD infused automated systems, handmade data models, and the old-fashioned "gut feel" approach. Is any one method better than another for solving the data-driven puzzle of paid search? |
Search Engine Watch
January 5, 2009
Ron Jones |
Search Ad Quality Score 101, Part 1 Increasing your quality score for paid search campaigns will help you save money on your bid and increase your rank position. |
The Motley Fool
January 28, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
LookSmart FeelDumb LookSmart is proving to be the bust in the paid search boom. |
Search Engine Watch
September 22, 2008
David Szetela |
PPC Bidding Strategies: Prudence vs. Aggressiveness When it comes to PPC bids, should you start low and build up? Or start high and come down? As with many things, the right strategy for your company depends on your situation and objectives. |
Search Engine Watch
July 16, 2008
Eric Enge |
When Being First Isn't Worth It A new report from AdGooroo shows that, generally speaking, for short keywords it's not profitable to bid your way into the high positions. These types of keywords actually lose money in the first and second positions, but longer keywords can do well near the top. |
Search Engine Watch
May 21, 2010
Alex Cohen |
Why Google Wants to Eliminate Bidding In Exchange for Your Profits How Google is removing CPC and bidding from paid search and the implications of these changes. |
Search Engine Watch
November 2, 2010
Ryan Woolley |
Secrets to Paid Search Success Revealed, Part 3 How to maximize paid search ROI with keyword bidding by defining your business rules, avoiding hyper-bidding, testing, and knowing your peak hours and days. |
Search Engine Watch
December 15, 2004
Chris Sherman |
State of the Search Marketing Industry 2004 Jupiter Research and SEMPO (the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) have released results of separate surveys providing one of the most detailed looks yet at current practices and advertiser spending in the search marketing industry. |
Search Engine Watch
February 11, 2011
Roger Barnette |
The New Attribution: Smart Marketers and User-Based Media Optimization By understanding the purchase cycle, you can deliver a more qualified audience to your website and get potential customers to convert more often. |
Search Engine Watch
June 9, 2010
Alex Cohen |
The Google Tax: The High Price of Free Search Marketing Tools The limits of Google's conversion based products, and why you just may not want to give Google the keys to your business. |
Search Engine Watch
February 4, 2010
Jason Tabeling |
Review your PPC Keywords Search engines are always changing, and so are the ways people search for your products and services. So your keyword list should change as frequently. |
Search Engine Watch
February 14, 2007
John Tawadros |
Data Mining: The Heart of Analysis What do you do when the needle won't move anymore - when you can't invest another dollar in your paid search program without diminishing your returns? The answer lies in the data. |
Search Engine Watch
July 20, 2009
Ron Jones |
PPC Bid Management, Part 2 There are times when manual bidding is enough, and other times when an automated solution is what's needed. Whether you use an automated or manual bid management system, it really takes a good balance of human and computer interaction to produce the best results. |
Search Engine Watch
January 18, 2011
Alex Cohen |
The Dawn of Paid Search Without Keywords We've seen dramatic departures in every step of how you advertise on Google. These changes underlie some of the key trends that will shape paid search this year. |
Search Engine Watch
April 15, 2008
Joshua Stylman |
Is Search Recession-Proof? While online advertising will probably suffer if there is a recession, search will be the last place from which marketers pull their ad dollars. |
Search Engine Watch
September 28, 2004
Patricia Hursh |
Search Marketing in Europe Search marketing is increasingly global, but a local focus is still vital to achieve your goals. What does it take to have a successful search marketing campaign in Europe? |
Search Engine Watch
March 14, 2006
Greg Jarboe |
Winning a Search Advertising Bid War Your pay-per-click campaign is advancing steadily until suddenly, another company launches a surprise attack, overruns your position, and pins you down in a bloody bidding war. What do you do? Pull back? Hunker down? Or counter-attack? |
Search Engine Watch
June 24, 2010
Jason Tabeling |
How to Avoid Lost Impression Share Due to Budget Knowing these tricks can ensure that you use the money you have to capture the maximum volume possible for your best performing keywords. |
Search Engine Watch
June 27, 2008
Chris Boggs |
SEO Basics: Effective Iterative Keyword Research in 2008 The value of any SEO effort lies in the keywords you choose. It's really that simple -- you can't overestimate the importance of strong keyword research. |
Search Engine Watch
January 4, 2006
Greg Jarboe |
SEM Campaign & Project Management, Part 1 What's the best approach to managing a search marketing campaign? A panel of experts shared best practices gained through years of experience with a wide range of clients. |
Search Engine Watch
July 23, 2010
Marc Poirier |
Real-time Bidding: The SEM Perspective Get ready people. Real-time bidding works a great deal better than old school display. |
Search Engine Watch
February 14, 2008
Pat Stroh |
Fortune Tellers and Paid Bid Management Keyword bid management for a paid search campaign can be accomplished in different ways. Campaign managers should be wary of methods that require them to predict the future. |
Search Engine Watch
June 29, 2010
Eric Enge |
A Call for Call Tracking There are several compelling reasons to drive customers to their phones. Here's how to use it to drive your business via PPC and SEO, and some helpful tracking tools. |
Search Engine Watch
November 16, 2010
Thi Thumasathit |
Broad Match: Desperately Seeking Cinderella Solely utilizing broad match can return the equivalent of a long line of ugly stepsisters -- and channel the real Cinderellas to other marketers-in-waiting. Here's how broad match can improve your search campaigns. |
Search Engine Watch
March 11, 2004
Jennifer Laycock |
Outsourcing Search Engine Marketing Search engine marketing is crucial for the success of online businesses -- but should you take on search marketing in-house, or outsource this challenging task to a contractor or agency? |
Search Engine Watch
August 22, 2008
Gregg Stewart |
6 Tips for Aligning Your National, Local SEM Efforts The volume of local searches continues growing, which means national-level search advertisers must develop strategic plans for incorporating local search into their national search programs. The benefit: lower cost leads with higher conversation rates. |
Search Engine Watch
January 30, 2009
Elisabeth Osmeloski |
2009 is a Year of Change for Travel Search Marketing The economy is forcing travel search marketers to change the way they approach online marketing. The travel vertical is already one of the most advanced groups of search marketers, but the industry has been under more pressure in recent months to make their campaigns count. |
Search Engine Watch
April 14, 2010
Alex Cohen |
Google Wants Your Profit Margin, Should You Give It To Them? Google is systematically trying to remove two barriers in paid search to maximize their profit. Here's how it impacts your business, and how you can respond. Part one of two. |
Search Engine Watch
October 3, 2007
Grant Crowell |
Search and the Law: Attorney Clarke Douglas Walton Clarke Douglas Walton, an attorney and former VP of an SEM firm, discusses trademark usage in PPC advertising, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and future legal issues on the horizon for search marketers. |
Search Engine Watch
February 8, 2007
Kevin Newcomb |
Search Marketing Shows Strength in 2006 SEMPO's annual look at the State of Search Engine Marketing finds that search continues to grow, reaching $9.4 billion in North America in 2006. |
Search Engine Watch
July 25, 2008
Frank Watson |
Trademarked Terms: Guaranteed Conversions, Guaranteed Controversy To buy or not to buy trademarked competitor keywords. That's the question search marketers face when tempted with high-converting competitor brand terms. |
CRM
August 31, 2012
Adam Blitzer |
Nine Essential Skills for B2B Marketers In an industry that's constantly moving ahead, don't get left behind. |
Search Engine Watch
April 8, 2011
Jeff Ferguson |
Goodbye, AdWords Position Preference... We Hardly Knew Ye If you were still using the AdWords Position Preference feature, now is the perfect time to re-evaluate your current AdWords strategies. |
Search Engine Watch
February 8, 2011
Kyle Costello |
3 Key Differences Between adCenter & AdWords Whether you're new to adCenter or just looking to more effectively manage your search campaigns following the Search Alliance, keep these three key differences in mind when managing paid search campaigns in the new, consolidated marketplace. |
CRM
August 26, 2011
Debbie Qaqish |
CRM-Integrated Marketing Automation ROI as a topic and as a goal for marketers is here to stay. Leveraging tools, people, and processes to effectively contribute to revenue and demonstrate ROI is job number one for all revenue marketers. |
