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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.   |
Search Engine Watch
July 15, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Google Simplifies & Loosens Requirements for AdWords Google is making changes to its AdWords program intended to provide advertisers with more control over campaigns while potentially improving relevance for users. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
July 24, 2006
Robert D. Hof |
Efficient Frontier: Hacking Madison Avenue Efficient Frontier Inc. is a New Age advertising agency that operates just like Madison Avenue shops, in a sense. It has access to a portfolio of ad space - Web search engines. |
The Motley Fool
April 3, 2006
Stephen Ellis |
Google's Not Worth $109 Billion The search giant is priced to perfection. The market, unable to value its disruptive potential, has overestimated the shares' worth, and with no room for error, numerous issues threaten to derail Google's ascent. |
InternetNews
August 23, 2007
Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft to Beta Test Content Ads Microsoft next week will begin beta testing a new advertising offering for its online properties - keyword ads on content pages. |
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
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
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
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. |
The Motley Fool
August 18, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google's Altered Ante A the new bid pricing strategy improves click-through rates and results in better leads, all three parties -- Google shareholders, AdWords customers, and AdSense publishers -- will be cheering the shift. |
Search Engine Watch
September 25, 2006
Catherine Seda |
Compare & Contrast: Search Ad Program Strategies Google, Microsoft and Yahoo's pay-per-click (PPC) programs are similar, but each have unique features that require different campaign tactics to use effectively. How do you get the maximum advantage from each program? |
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
December 14, 2010
Thi Thumasathit |
Ad Group Structure: A How-to Guide for SEMs Building a solid foundation of the right ad group structure is vital to search engine marketing success. Here's how SEMs can greatly improve the success of their search marketing campaigns. |
Entrepreneur
June 2006
Catherine Seda |
Keyword to the Wise Pay-per-click advertising can bring a stampede of shoppers to your site, but make sure your keyword performance is profitable. |
Search Engine Watch
March 23, 2009
Ron Jones |
Setting up PPC Campaigns 101, Part 2 Don't be afraid to try something different to see if it will make an improvement. PPC management is all about dialing it in and then making small methodical course corrections to squeeze out a little more performance when you can. |
PC Magazine
February 14, 2007
Matthew D. Sarrel |
Success With Search Engines What if you had a Web site and no one came? |
Entrepreneur
June 2004
Catherine Seda |
Taken Out of Context? You might be part of a contextual ad program without even knowing it. Visit the search engines' sites to learn more about contextual advertising and how to manage it. |
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
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? |
Entrepreneur
May 2007
Catherine Seda |
Not So Fast . . . Don't just throw more money at pay-per-click - make it work for you. |
Inc.
December 2007
Michael Fitzgerald |
Clicks for Cash Earning more from your website. |
Fast Company
February 2009
Bill Barol |
Google Takes on TV Ads Michael Steib joined Google from NBC Universal in early 2007. He oversees the new Google TV Ads program, which brings the auction system developed by the search giant for online ads to TV spot buying. |
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
June 15, 2009
Ron Jones |
Effective PPC Ad Copy 101, Part 1 One of the most important factors of a successful PPC campaign is writing successful ad copy. You can spend a good deal of time on other aspects of your campaign but skimp on the ad copy and you might not get the results you're looking for. |
InternetNews
March 12, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Google Planning a TV Ad Takeover? Google is currently running a trial of test ads on cable as part of its larger plan to move into television advertising. |
The Motley Fool
August 20, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Is Google Un-American? Google and American Airlines parent AMR get into a war of words. Keywords, that is. This may seem like little more than a passing story, but there are serious implications here for the search industry. |
InternetNews
August 28, 2006
Clint Boulton |
Google, eBay Make Nice on Text Ads, Click-to-Call Looking to shore up their position against Microsoft and Yahoo in the fiercely competitive market for Internet advertising services, Google and eBay struck a multi-year deal to work together on text-based and click-to-call advertising. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
December 12, 2005
Ben Elgin |
Can Google Go Glossy? Why Google's plan to resell print ads to its army of advertisers may be off to a slow start. |
Inc.
January 2004
Rod Kurtz |
Google Update Draws Criticism from Small Biz Google changes the way it sells keyword ads. |
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. |
InternetNews
May 4, 2006
David Miller |
Thanks to Microsoft, This Ad's For You Targeting ads to match users' needs and wants has long been a benefit of online advertising, but now Microsoft says that it's taking that concept a step further with its just-out-of-beta adCenter. |
Inc.
March 2006 |
How Pay Per Action Works It's a lot like regular keyword advertising -- only better: you're charged only when a customer actually makes a call or orders something. |
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
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. |
InternetNews
October 16, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Google Riding High Amid Economic Turbulence Despite concerns about slashed marketing budgets, Google posts a third quarter in line with analysts' expectations. |
Wired
October 2001
Chip Bayers |
I'm Feeling Lucky Google's built a no-nonsense path to profitability by treating advertising just like search. The secret? Three words, ranked by relevance: Results. Results. Results... |
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 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
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... |
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. |
The Motley Fool
February 10, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google vs. eBay The only thing better than siding with either Google or eBay today is siding with the would-be Google or eBay of tomorrow, before it commands a $50 billion price tag. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
June 22, 2009
Ron Jones |
Effective PPC Ad Copy 101, Part 2 We've covered the searcher behavior funnel and tips for writing headlines and descriptions. Now we'll venture beyond the ad copy to discuss methods for testing and fine-tuning your ads to increase performance. |
Search Engine Watch
April 24, 2008
David Szetela |
The Google Content Ad Fraud Lawsuit: Just the Facts, Ma'am Google's being sued for tricking advertisers into advertising on its content network - but the truth may be more damning than the lawsuit claims. Or is there a fatal mistake in the lawsuit filing? |
Search Engine Watch
May 13, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Offers Banners & Image Ads -- But Not On Google Itself Google has debuted a new graphical ad option for its advertisers -- the ability to run banners, skyscrapers and other image-based ad units. However, these ads won't run on Google itself. |
Search Engine Watch
June 9, 2008
David Szetela |
Google Mobile Advertising: Start Now! Mobile advertising revenue is expected to dwarf current ad spend on search and content networks. Understanding the dynamics of mobile search advertising is an essential starting point to creating great mobile content ad campaigns. |
