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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.
Search Engine Watch January 24, 2006 Patricia Hursh	Marketing in the Search Tail: Is the Pain Worth the Gain? Popular search terms tend to dominate the headlines, but there are literally millions of unique searches conducted every day, and savvy search marketers are taking advantage of the opportunities in the 'search tail.'
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PC Magazine February 14, 2007 Matthew D. Sarrel	Success With Search Engines What if you had a Web site and no one came?
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Search Engine Watch August 28, 2006 Patricia Hursh	Winning Big With a Small Search Marketing Budget Big companies with huge budgets certainly make it more difficult for smaller search marketers to compete, but ingenuity and creativity can still provide a compelling competitive advantage regardless of budget constraints.
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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.
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Bank Technology News February 2006 Glen Fest	Search Engines: Out Of Banks' Plain View Google, Yahoo! and MSN are trying to convince banks to ramp up search-engine advertising and optimization. So far, banks have not been big-time adopters.
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Search Engine Watch October 29, 2010 Ryan Woolley	Secrets to Paid Search Success Revealed, Part 1 Ads designed to be more attractive to a searcher and more relevant to the search query can yield wildly profitable paid search campaigns.
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Search Engine Watch January 24, 2007 Patricia Hursh	Don't Click Here! Should You Pre-Qualify Clickers? B-to-B advertisers often pay high click costs to reach a very small and very specific group of potential buyers. More than anyone, they need to be sure the right people are clicking on their ads.
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HBS Working Knowledge August 12, 2008 Benjamin G. Edelman	Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising A proposed advertising deal between Internet competitors Google and Yahoo would reduce competitiveness in the Internet advertising market, likely resulting in higher advertising rates.
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Search Engine Watch March 31, 2004 Arnaud Fischer	Paid Search Programs Finally Growing Up The search industry has come a long way. Enhanced keyword targeting capabilities and powerful new bidding and analysis tools have raised the value of search as a promotional channel.
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Search Engine Watch September 8, 2008 David Szetela	Killer PPC Ads: The Final Word These simple guidelines will pave the way to pay-per-click nirvana: double-digit click-through-rates.
Search Engine Watch June 25, 2010 John Lee	One Ad vs. Many: Understanding Placement Targeted Ads on Google's Content Network Using placement targeting gives your ad a huge advantage for increasing click-through rate and conversions. Here's how you can ensure your placement targeted ads have a fighting chance to perform.
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 October 13, 2008 David Szetela	Reading the Tea Leaves: Interpreting Keyword Reports Once enough data has accumulated, it's important to run reports and take action based on the data. But what do all those numbers mean, and how should we make adjustments to improve PPC campaign performance?
Search Engine Watch November 11, 2008 Mark Jackson	Google AdWords Quality Score -- That's Old-School for SEO By optimizing your Web site for organic search, and building out a bunch of pages for each keyword that you're honestly interested in targeting, you'll likely end up improving your Quality Scores as well.
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