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March 18, 2010
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Boost PPC Performance With Google Conversion Optimizer Find out the best ways to use Google's Conversion Optimizer to boost your paid search performance.   |
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October 28, 2010
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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
June 9, 2010
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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
April 3, 2008 |
Google to Sell DoubleClick's Search Marketing Unit Google to offload division of recently acquired marketing firm. |
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
April 14, 2006
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A Head Above the Clickfraud Tide Estimates vary, but it's clear there's a surge of bad clicks in paid search. |
Search Engine Watch
May 4, 2009
Ron Jones |
Click Fraud 101 Thanks to increased efforts from the search engines and ad networks, click fraud is less of a problem than it once was, but it still exists. Here's how to arm yourself against this potential foe. |
Search Engine Watch
October 6, 2008
David Szetela |
Judging PPC Performance: Focus on Conversions, Part 2 Should you delete or pause under-performing keywords - or simply adjust their bid prices? The answer will vary by advertiser, but one thing is constant: decisions about keyword and ad performance should mainly depend on conversion performance. |
Search Engine Watch
December 17, 2010
Melissa Mackey |
Google AdWords Placement Targeting Campaign Tips A step-by-step guide for advertisers on how to set up placement targeted campaigns. |
Search Engine Watch
March 2, 2011
Matt Lawson |
Yahoo-Bing Search Alliance: 3 Key Findings All Search Marketers Must Know Is it a good time to buy in the combined Yahoo-Bing marketplace? A paid search study examines how paid search ads are performing. |
InternetNews
June 22, 2009
Michelle Megna |
Yahoo, Google Rev Up New Ad Products Search companies roll out new advertising platforms as the online ad industry malaise continues. |
Search Engine Watch
February 28, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Searchers Still Like to Buy Offline A new study says that though a majority of shoppers use the internet to research products, nearly half still prefer to make their purchases through bricks and mortar retailers. |
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
October 13, 2010
Joseph Kerschbaum |
Using Conversion Funnels to Improve Your Conversion Rate, Part 1 How you can apply data from Search Funnel reports in AdWords to improve your conversion rate and overall PPC performance. |
InternetNews
May 17, 2004
Janis Mara |
DoubleClick Acquires Performics The largest provider of online technology has acquired search engine and affiliate marketing firm Performics, putting it in head-to-head competition with ValueClick. |
InternetNews
August 3, 2009
Michelle Megna |
Click Fraud Rate Dips, Publisher Scams Rise If you advertise on ad networks, beware of publisher collusion fraud. |
InternetNews
February 5, 2004
Zachary Rodgers |
Volume Up, Click-Throughs Down in Q4 Serving Report DoubleClick finds direct response rates down in Q4, but conversions remain strong on high volume. |
Search Engine Watch
May 28, 2010
Marc Poirier |
7 Things Agencies Hate About Facebook Social Ads Facebook does several things wrong, preventing SEM agencies from experimenting further and becoming bigger spenders. Here are the seven most annoying things about Facebook Social Ads. |
Search Engine Watch
September 15, 2008
David Szetela |
Show Me the Money: Bidding for Profitability Setting ad group bid prices at the beginning of a campaign is one of the more challenging tasks for many PPC advertisers. The answers are a snap once you know the fundamentals. |
CRM
March 1, 2005 |
Statistically Speaking Cisco and IBM are the top two choices for IP telephony solutions to be deployed in the next two years... An overwhelming 79% of respondents claim they do not have a 360-degree view of their customers... etc. |
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. |
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? |
InternetNews
August 17, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
Online Shopping Up, Along With Abandoned Carts DoubleClick's e-commerce survey tells the tale of why e-shoppers are leaving their carts in the virtual aisle. |
The Motley Fool
February 20, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Try Again, Yahoo! Yahoo! launches Rich Ads in Search, but it's not a cure. |
Search Engine Watch
November 11, 2010
Jason Tabeling |
Learn the Full Value of Your Paid Search Program If you have a conversion without revenue tied to it, here's how you can use data from various channels to help put a value on those events. |
Search Engine Watch
March 26, 2009
David Szetela |
PPC Content Advertising: The Latest Tips and Best Practices Great progress has been made over the last year in the capabilities of the search engines' contextual advertising offerings. Many advertisers could be tapping into a source of clicks where there's less competition and lower click prices. |
Search Engine Watch
March 1, 2007
Kevin Newcomb |
Google Offers More Click Fraud Data The amount of click fraud detected by Google remains in single-digit percentages of total clicks, and the amount that slips through to advertisers is just 0.02 percent, according to Google. |
InternetNews
March 20, 2006
David Miller |
DoubleClick Swallows German Competitor DoubleClick has snapped up rival Falk eSolutions, an online ad delivery and marketing management solutions firm based in Germany, for an undisclosed sum. |
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
May 24, 2006
Chris Sherman |
The Value of Branded vs. Non-Branded Search Terms New research suggests that while branded search terms offer the highest conversion rates, non-branded terms can significantly impact the outcome of a paid search marketing campaign. |
Information Today
April 23, 2007 |
Google to Acquire DoubleClick The combination of Google and DoubleClick is designed to provide superior tools for targeting, serving, and analyzing online ads of all types. |
InternetNews
May 13, 2009
Michelle Megna |
Interactive Ad Bureau Issues PPC Guidelines The IAB today issued Click Measurement Guidelines with the goal of reconciling what constitutes a click in pay-per-click ad campaigns. |
Search Engine Watch
February 19, 2010
Michael Boland |
Mobile PPCall Simplified: A Conversation with Google Google's mobile pay-per-call program looks like a bargain for advertisers in verticals and large agencies alike. But will Google eventually decouple the call monetization from AdWords clicks? |
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 |
Entrepreneur
November 2003
Catherine Seda |
The ROI Treatment Get better results by creating an ROI model. |
Search Engine Watch
April 7, 2009
Aaron Shear |
Lassoing Your Loss Leaders Loss leaders are words or phrases that typically have such a high cost that they have a negative conversion rate. However, the general thought with loss leaders is that a user is just starting their research with these highly competitive and costly terms. |
Search Engine Watch
January 29, 2009
Cameron Jonsson |
What's a Yahoo Advertiser to Do? The notion that Yahoo wants to help its advertisers is comforting, but the way that they are going about it is questionable. It's clear that the beneficiaries of Yahoo's new "automated optimization" strategy are not the advertisers...but a small change in the program could make it work for everyone. |
Search Engine Watch
February 8, 2011
Jason Tabeling |
Measuring Free Clicks in AdWords Advertisers: Take advantage of free click ads to extend your share of voice on the page, improve the consumer experience, and determine the value to your overall search program. |
Search Engine Watch
August 20, 2010
John Lee |
Make Google AdWords Bidding Features Work for You What works best for your PPC campaign? A look at AdWords' latest feature, Enhanced CPC, plus a recap of manual CPC bidding, automated bidding, and Conversion Optimizer. |
Search Engine Watch
July 9, 2009
Melissa Mackey |
Using Geo-Targeting to Boost Your PPC Results Increased pay-per-click competition combined with low consumer confidence and spending levels often leads to higher cost-per-conversion for advertisers. One way to find new pockets of opportunity is by making use of geo-targeted PPC campaigns. |
Search Engine Watch
November 13, 2009
Marc Poirier |
A Closer Look at the Second Tier Ecosystem Need help marketing a general interest product or service? Here's why you should consider giving second tier ad networks a second chance. |
InternetNews
April 4, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
DoubleClick's One-Stop Ad Shop Digital ad gatekeeper DoubleClick plans to open an online exchange for publishers and advertisers that'll make it as easy to sell online ads as it is to sell goods on eBay. |
InternetNews
March 18, 2009
Alex Goldman |
Web Ad Firms Bet on Phones Getting More PC-Like Smartphones are becoming "smarter" all the time. But does that mean profits ahead for online ad sellers and content owners? |
InternetNews
April 25, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Equity Firm to Buy DoubleClick for $1.1B DoubleClick CEO will step down after the online advertising and marketing concern accepts a buyout from Hellman & Friedman LLC. |
Search Engine Watch
August 4, 2009
Carrie Hill |
Targeting your Search Advertising for Success Running successful search advertising campaigns can be a tricky pursuit. Anyone can do it, but being careful and educated about what you're doing is important to seeing a return on your investment. |
InternetNews
April 13, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Google Acquires DoubleClick For $3.1 Billion Google announced late on Friday that it would purchase online advertising firm DoubleClick for $3.1 billion in cash. |
Search Engine Watch
November 14, 2008
Gregg Stewart |
Offline and Online Conversions Tracking: Increase Your ROI The accountability of online marketing is only as good as the analytics an advertiser employs. Tracking conversions - both online and offline - can be tricky, but it is an important part of any online marketing program, especially for businesses with a local presence. |
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
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 29, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Shopping Search Week 2004! Shopping has emerged as one of the most important vertical categories in the specialized search arena, for searchers, advertisers and merchants alike. Here's a look at what's new and improved in shopping and product comparison search engines. |
