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Search Engine Watch October 2, 2007 Kevin Newcomb |
Search Budgets to See Double-Digit Growth A significant number of advertisers plan to increase both their search ad spend and SEO budgets next year, according to a MarketingSherpa report. |
Search Engine Watch January 5, 2011 Stephen Cobb |
Will 2011 be the Year of Conversion Rate Optimization? The business logic behind conversion rate optimization is compelling, yet in 2010 many businesses managed not to do much about CRO, perhaps distracted by trends like social media. But 2011 will be the year that CRO finally has something to crow about. |
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. |
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 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 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. |
Entrepreneur November 2009 Mikal E. Belicove |
Graceful Landing A well-conceived landing page sends the right signals about your company and helps customers navigate toward the sale. |
Search Engine Watch January 23, 2009 David Szetela |
Google Conversion Optimizer: The Best-Kept Secret in PPC? Google quietly added Conversion Optimizer to every advertiser's AdWords account a few months ago. In a nutshell, it regulates keyword-level bids, promising to deliver as many conversions as possible, at or below a cost-per-conversion you specify. |
Search Engine Watch June 23, 2009 Carrie Hill |
Taking the Fear Out of Web Analytics for Your Small Business Do you have Web analytics installed on your small business Web site? If not, you should. How will you know how your Web site is performing if you aren't measuring the right data? |
Search Engine Watch September 29, 2008 David Szetela |
Judging PPC Performance: Focus on Conversions Knowing how and when to make decisions about your PPC campaign's keyword and ad performance can make or break your campaign. Just remember that almost every action you take to improve your PPC ad campaign should be based on conversion data. |
PC Magazine April 19, 2006 Matthew D. Sarrel |
Your Site's Stats Now that you have a Web site, it's time to learn how to analyze the traffic that your visitors generate. |
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. |
Entrepreneur November 2003 Catherine Seda |
The ROI Treatment Get better results by creating an ROI model. |
The Motley Fool March 30, 2005 Tom Taulli |
How Does Google Gauge Success? Measuring Web traffic is becoming a strategic business, as Google's latest acquisition shows. This is good news for the Web analytics providers, as the deals should logically push values higher. |
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 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 July 18, 2008 William Flaiz |
The Holy Grail of SEO The imprecise nature of search engine optimization can put clients on edge. A reliable traffic prediction metric is truly the Holy Grail for search marketers. |
Search Engine Watch January 12, 2009 Ron Jones |
Search Ad Quality Score 101, Part 2 Getting a good quality score requires that you create relevance and continuity from beginning to end of the search experience. Then you need to test, test, test. |
Search Engine Watch July 1, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Overture Says Forget CPC, What's Your ROI? The company rolled out a new bidding system that will force many advertisers to think more about how much they can afford to pay to gain leads rather than how cheaply they can get those leads. |
Entrepreneur October 2009 Mikal E. Belicove |
Analyzing the Analytics How to make sense of your website's performance data. |
Search Engine Watch May 10, 2005 Grant Crowell |
Click Fraud: A Legal Look Click fraud is a growing concern among search engine marketers, but who ultimately is to blame? Perhaps more importantly, what's being done to address this increasingly contentious issue? |
Search Engine Watch January 9, 2006 Chris Sherman |
The State of Search Engine Marketing New research from SEMPO sheds light on what's happening in the search marketing industry today, from the size of the industry to key trends that will shape the year ahead. |
Search Engine Watch March 18, 2010 Melissa Mackey |
Boost PPC Performance With Google Conversion Optimizer Find out the best ways to use Google's Conversion Optimizer to boost your paid search performance. |
Search Engine Watch January 9, 2009 Gregg Stewart |
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics Over the past year, I've been in numerous meetings with advertisers, agencies, and online media vendors, and I'm often amazed at the confusion surrounding how local search campaign analytics are reported, and sometimes twisted, to create a desired story. |
Search Engine Watch November 4, 2004 Dana Todd |
Search Marketing Beyond Google and Overture When most people talk about pay per click (PPC) search engine advertising, Google and Overture (Yahoo!) take center stage. But in reality, there are hundreds of smaller 'Tier Two' search engines that offer compelling PPC opportunities. |
Search Engine Watch December 9, 2008 Carrie Hill |
PPC & SEO -- Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together Put peanut butter and chocolate together and you get something that transcends each of the individual ingredients. The same effect can be had when you combine paid search advertising with search engine optimization efforts. |
Search Engine Watch February 25, 2011 Ryan Woolley |
Conversion Rate, A Most Powerful Lever Indeed Some best practices and a guide on how to execute an A/B split serve landing page test. |
Search Engine Watch October 14, 2008 Mark Jackson |
Are You Measuring SEO Success Correctly? Ranking reports are flawed because they depend on everyone seeing the same search results, which just doesn't happen anymore. SEO success should be measured by the lift in organic search engine traffic. And to do that, you need to make sure your analytics are set up correctly. |
Fast Company March 1, 2007 |
Open Debate Is Google overrated? Tapped out? Due for a fall? Two experts take sides. |
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 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. |
The Motley Fool June 5, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Yahoo! Follows Google, Again The sluggish YPN program gets a Google-esque makeover. In short, it's the same "smart pricing" technique that Google has been using in its Google AdSense program for three years now. |
Search Engine Watch March 10, 2011 Paul Burani |
7 Ways to Counter Rising CPCs Low-tech solutions to stave off hyperinflation within the paid search economy. |
Search Engine Watch August 19, 2010 Jason Tabeling |
The Growing Importance of Search Networks and Partnerships Understand traffic sources and how the search engines are set up. Out-optimize your competition. Maximize your accounts. |
Search Engine Watch June 7, 2010 John Greer |
How to Measure Success in an SEO Campaign Measuring search engine optimization results is more difficult than building a single graph. Use these metrics to gain a much better picture of your natural search health. |
Search Engine Watch November 11, 2009 Tim Ash |
How to Get Started on Landing Page Optimization Tips for getting buy-in from high-level executives and other team members. |
Entrepreneur October 2006 Gwen Moran |
And... Action Video advertising has gone live on Google. Is it right for you? |
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. |
InternetNews May 6, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
SES: Web Analytics Key To Search Success Experts contend that Web analytics are the key to ensuring online success as well as helping to prevent online fraud. |
Search Engine Watch August 18, 2004 Shari Thurow |
Creating Compelling Search Engine Ads and Landing Pages Effective search engine advertising goes far beyond simply bidding on keywords. With both ads and landing pages, you have scant seconds to capture the imagination and clicks of a searcher. |
Search Engine Watch October 29, 2009 Melissa Mackey |
Popular PPC Pitfalls, and How to Prevent Them Three of the most common search advertising pitfalls can be avoided. Here's how. |
Search Engine Watch September 28, 2006 Catherine Seda |
Search Arbitrage: Good or Evil? With a bit of creativity, you can use arbitrage to profit from price differences in search engine advertising programs. |
Search Engine Watch September 4, 2000 Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Optimization Firm Sold For $95 Million Search engine optimization is sometimes labeled a cottage industry, but plenty of companies take an industrial approach to generating traffic for clients. Case in point is Website Results, which was purchased by Internet advertising company 24/7 Media in a $95 million stock deal. |
Search Engine Watch October 28, 2010 Melissa Mackey |
Click Fraud Rising - Should You Be Concerned? Lost revenue from click fraud can be minimized. Here's what search advertisers can do to avoid wasting budget. |
Search Engine Watch October 7, 2004 Catherine Seda |
Contextual Ads: Vital to a Search Marketing Campaign? Are you bidding on keywords through Overture's Precision Match, Google's AdWords or another pay-for-placement service? If so, you're eligible to participate in their contextual advertising programs. |
Search Engine Watch December 4, 2008 David Szetela |
PPC Landing Pages: The End of the Line -- Or the Beginning? Expert PPC advertisers realize that PPC landing pages have more impact on conversion rates and ROI than anything else they can do. |
InternetNews April 30, 2004 Robyn Greenspan |
Searching for Balance Not all search campaigns are created equal, as Internet users reveal which engines provide the most relevant organic and paid results. |
Search Engine Watch February 18, 2011 Rob Chant |
Why SEOs Shouldn't Fixate on Keyword Rankings Focusing only on where you rank for a small group of keywords is a bad investment for many reasons. Some tips on how to diversify your efforts. |
Entrepreneur December 2005 Melissa Campanelli |
Get Your Clicks Click fraud may be a larger problem than you think. Learn how to it before it drains your ad budget. |
Search Engine Watch May 6, 2010 Marty Weintraub |
Google Analytics, Conversion Tracking & Single Segment Reporting Power There's awesome power in the simplicity of surfing Google Analytics, only studying a single conversion setting. The only limitation is your imagination. |