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Search Engine Watch
February 10, 2010
Alex Cohen |
The Rise of Universal Paid Search 2009 fundamentally changed the balance between organic and paid search and introduced non-text ads to mainstream advertisers. 2010 will go even further.   |
Search Engine Watch
October 13, 2009
Carrie Hill |
Saturating Your Message in Search Marketing Tips to ensure your business controls as many spaces as possible on a search results page. |
Search Engine Watch
March 7, 2011
Adam Audette |
Maximizing Your CTR for SEO in Organic Results Be mindful of the way your organic listings appear in the search results. Listings designed to maximize CTR will have a ranking advantage. |
Search Engine Watch
December 8, 2008
William Flaiz |
Universal Search Should Be a Plus Variety in the search results gives online marketers multiple opportunities to rank and gain new listing visibility. But how does the user feel? As new listing types begin appearing in results, we often lose sight of whether these listings are really helpful to the user. |
Search Engine Watch
December 21, 2010
Alex Cohen |
A 10 Day Plan to Overhaul Your PPC Campaigns, Part 3 A guide to some of this year's new ad formats. Here are some tips on targeting image ads on Google Image Search, adding seller ratings, launching Product Listing Ads, and including Video Extensions. |
Search Engine Watch
October 23, 2003
Anne Kennedy |
Balancing Paid and Organic Search Listings Do you really need both 'organic' or 'natural' listings, generated by search engine optimization (SEO), and paid placement, aka pay-per-click advertising (PPC), to be successful on search engines? |
Search Engine Watch
September 16, 2008
Carrie Hill |
Making the Most of Search Engine Copywriting Small business owners must be aware of what their ad copy promises, and how they deliver on those promises. |
Search Engine Watch
September 2, 2008
Mark Jackson |
How Much Are You Spending on SEO? SEO deserves its rightful place in every company's marketing budget. |
Search Engine Watch
October 24, 2008
William Flaiz |
The Organic and Paid Balancing Act As SERP listings and functionality changes, there are still two types of listings that have weathered the storm and are still attainable for marketers: traditional organic listings and paid search listings. |
Search Engine Watch
August 27, 2010
Marty Weintraub |
Online Marketing Fundamentals For New Professionals, Part 2 A new crop of search marketers need to learn the fundamentals of our industry. Class is in session once again. Today's lesson: organic and paid search for newbies. |
Search Engine Watch
November 24, 2010
Alex Cohen |
A 10 Day Plan to Overhaul Your PPC Campaigns, Part 1 Following this schedule will put you well on your way to the most profitable holiday season (and post-season) yet. First up: implementing sitelinks, adding product extensions, and setting up remarketing. |
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
October 14, 2010
Jason Tabeling |
Why You Should Combine Your PPC & SEO Strategies Here's how advertisers can develop a search strategy that effectively coordinates paid and organic listings. |
Search Engine Watch
October 25, 2010
John Greer |
Organic Search Listings That Drive Clicks People scan search results quickly. Here's how to make your listing stand out and make searchers want to click on your site. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
March 23, 2011
Melissa Mackey |
A 12-Step Program to Improve Your CTR Before a PPC ad can generate a conversion, it needs to generate a click. If you want to improve your CTR, these steps will help you. |
Search Engine Watch
October 27, 2008
David Szetela |
Those Mysterious Quality Scores: Fundamentally Simple If you're aware of quality scores at all, you may have a vague notion that the search engines "grade" the "goodness" of your PPC campaigns |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
April 7, 2009
Mark Jackson |
Don't Overlook Local Search Opportunities With local search, there are many free or low-cost opportunities for local advertisers to get found. How many businesses, both small and large, are taking advantage of local SEO? |
Search Engine Watch
May 3, 2011
Jason Tabeling |
Understanding AdWords Average Position: Optimize Your PPC Performance A key piece to your bottom line performance is understanding how average position works and impacts your campaigns. Test and optimize this data in context of your total search campaign to see your total results improve. |
Search Engine Watch
October 28, 2010
Jon Schepke |
Google Place Search: Location Information Just Became More Critical Google's new Place Search makes it more important than ever for business to implement a local search, online review, and SEO strategy to achieve prominent visibility in Google's results. |
Search Engine Watch
February 25, 2011
Dave Davies |
Improve Your Organic Rankings With Google Places, Part 1 The basics of a Google Places: how to properly set up a listing and some of the principles behind why this is important. |
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
February 16, 2011
Gareth Owen |
SEO and PPC: A Love-Hate Relationship Three big trends are changing how we attribute value in SEO. We are increasingly turning to tactics that were previously considered to be the realm of paid search professionals to meet client expectations. |
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
May 26, 2004
Gord Hotchkiss |
Inside the Searcher's Mind: It's a Jungle in Here! What goes on in the mind of searchers? A research group set out to find the answers -- and came up with some interesting and surprising answers. |
Search Engine Watch
October 10, 2008
Chris Boggs |
Is Your SEM Truly Looking at Search Holistically? To achieve SERP nirvana, your search engine optimization and paid search efforts must have the same goal. Ask these five important questions. |
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
April 29, 2010
Jason Tabeling |
3 Reasons to Spend Money on Branded Terms Bidding on your own branded terms protects your ad space, guarantees placement in SERPs, and increases brand awareness. Here's how. |
Search Engine Watch
January 12, 2011
Greg Habermann |
Google Product Listing Ads vs. Text Ads The results of Product Listing Ad tests. How did they stack up against the common Google text ads? An e-commerce case study. |
InternetNews
May 4, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
Google's 'Golden Triangle' A keynote speaker at Search Engine Strategies Toronto takes a look at search strategies and behaviors. |
Search Engine Watch
July 28, 2010
Kevin Gibbons |
7 Golden Rules for Paid Search Copy Using these seven tips will help get your PPC ads some real attention and get the right kind of clicks. |
Search Engine Watch
January 27, 2005
Danny Sullivan |
AlmondNet Debuts "Post-Search" Search Behavioral Ad Network This new program delivers advertising across the web targeted to the topics someone has searched on recently, including queries done on major search engines such as Google and Yahoo. |
Search Engine Watch
March 16, 2010
Herndon Hasty |
SEM: A Call to Action A call to action in your ads and your site is critical. Getting your potential customers' attention is important, but getting them to direct that attention to doing what you want them to do is an absolute. |
Entrepreneur
January 2007
Catherine Seda |
War of the Words Pay-per-click arbitrage could be driving up the cost of your keywords. |
Search Engine Watch
October 24, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Google Launches Local Search Targeting & Search Forum Spotlight Google has rolled out a new Regional Targeting feature that lets advertisers have their AdWords ads appear in front of those searching from specific local areas in the United States. Also, a roundup of topics discussed at various search forums this week. |
Search Engine Watch
November 29, 2010
Greg Habermann |
Google's Holiday Gift: Product Listing Ads Ready to try out the new AdWords Product Listing Ads? A guide to the key points advertisers should be aware of. |
Search Engine Watch
December 4, 2009
Frank Watson |
It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas: Changes At Google to Increase Ad Spends With a decrease in overall advertising, Google looks to help offset some lost ad revenue by increasing the amount they get from existing advertisers. |
Search Engine Watch
May 12, 2010
Bill Hunt |
Leveraging Baidu to Reach the Chinese Audience Escalated interest in reaching China, and the continued improvements to Baidu's platform, has raised the need to take a deeper look at Baidu, and dispel some of the misconceptions and confusion about this growing search engine. |
Search Engine Watch
March 8, 2005
Chris Sherman |
A New F-Word for Google Search Results A new study has added tangible evidence to the widely held view that top-ranking search results get the most attention from users, and that lower-ranking results are all but invisible to most people. |
Search Engine Watch
November 11, 2010
Mark Drummond |
The 2 Principles of Effective Performance Advertising Creating relevant ads is easy. Making people click on them? Not so much. Here's how to design a good user experience that leads to performance ads that work well. |
Search Engine Watch
June 11, 2009
Melissa Mackey |
Can Bing Really Bring It for PPC Advertisers? Advertisers want to know if Bing can really provide a new experience for searchers, or if it's just Live.com with a cooler name. |
InternetNews
February 5, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
SuperPages.com's PPC Play Verizon's revamp of the Internet yellow pages site adds a cleaner interface and a new advertising model, utilizing pay-per-click ads with technology from FindWhat.com. |
Search Engine Watch
May 25, 2004
Sullivan & Sherman |
Search Engine User Attitudes With so much interest in search, it's amazing how relatively little research has been done into how people interact with search engines, especially from a search marketing perspective. That's finally changing. |
Search Engine Watch
December 22, 2010
Jeff Beard |
12 Days of Business Listings For Holidays and the New Year How is your local business identity performing online? Twelve tips to help consumers find you this holiday season and in the New Year. |
Search Engine Watch
January 16, 2011
Frank Watson |
Session-Based Ads: Smarter Than the Average Ad or a Boo-Boo? Session-based broad match can't be controlled by AdWords advertisers, and some users aren't happy about the wasted ad spend. Is Google losing its focus on its core products? |
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
March 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Up Close With Google AdWords Forget the hype about what the new cost-per-click AdWords program means for Google, in terms of competing with Overture. What's in the program for advertisers, and how does the cost per click pricing fit in with the existing cost per impression ads? Let's take a look... |
Search Engine Watch
December 23, 2003
Shari Thurow |
Search Engine Contextual Ads Gain Momentum A relatively new form of search engine advertising has nothing to do with search engine results. Instead, 'contextual ads' are displayed on other sites' Web pages, based on the content of pages people are viewing. |
New Architect
May 2002
Michael Hurwicz |
when small is better How Google's AdWords system is changing online advertising... |
