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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.
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Search Engine Watch September 2, 2004 Danny Sullivan	Overture Shifting To Default Broad Match Within the next few weeks, Overture will make a major switch to matching terms on a broad basis, rather than the traditional exact match default it has followed since the company's launch.
Search Engine Watch February 8, 2011 Kyle Costello	3 Key Differences Between adCenter & AdWords Whether you're new to adCenter or just looking to more effectively manage your search campaigns following the Search Alliance, keep these three key differences in mind when managing paid search campaigns in the new, consolidated marketplace.
Search Engine Watch November 1, 2010 Ryan Woolley	Secrets to Paid Search Success Revealed, Part 2 Want to save thousands of dollars on your paid search advertising campaigns? Use these tips on running exact, phrase, and broad match.
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 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 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 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
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Search Engine Watch August 5, 2010 Melissa Mackey	Modified Broad Match -- Broad Match as it Should Be You should be making extensive use of modified broad match in your PPC campaigns. And here's why.
Search Engine Watch May 19, 2004 Patricia Hursh	Search Engines Turning Trademark Law Upside Down Search engines, most notably Google, are pushing the limits of trademark law, allowing anyone to use these protected marks in advertising. Some trademark owners are fighting back.
Search Engine Watch July 16, 2008 Eric Enge	When Being First Isn't Worth It A new report from AdGooroo shows that, generally speaking, for short keywords it's not profitable to bid your way into the high positions. These types of keywords actually lose money in the first and second positions, but longer keywords can do well near the top.
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Search Engine Watch March 22, 2006 Greg Jarboe	Targeting Search Ads By Demographics & Behavior The days of targeting searchers via keywords alone are coming to an end. Now search engines are offering the ability to target searchers by age, gender and other demographics.
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Search Engine Watch March 8, 2007 Elisabeth Osmeloski	The State of Paid Search in the U.K. At Search Engine Strategies London last month, search providers and agencies discussed the latest happenings in paid search.
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.
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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.
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Search Engine Watch August 4, 2008 David Szetela	Awesome Ad Groups: Small is Good Trying to fit all your keywords in one ad group is not going to get you the results you want. Get those double-digit click-through rates with small, tightly-themed ad groups.
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.
Search Engine Watch June 14, 2006 Grant Crowell	Understanding Searcher Behavior Searchers interact with search engines in a variety of ways, and understanding searcher behavior is an increasingly important aspect of effective search marketing.
Entrepreneur January 2007 Catherine Seda	War of the Words Pay-per-click arbitrage could be driving up the cost of your keywords.
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.
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InternetNews February 24, 2009 David Needle	Yahoo to Tie More Search Behavior into Ads Yahoo announced major enhancements to its display advertising services today designed to make the ads more relevant to Web surfers and how searches are conducted.
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.
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 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?
InternetNews November 4, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	This 'Live' Space for Rent Microsoft is taking the ad-support fight to Google's backyard, and marketers are welcoming the space to play.
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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?
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 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.
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 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.
Search Engine Watch October 27, 2010 Alex Cohen	3 Holiday PPC Tips for Black Friday (And Beyond) Fine-tuning your text ad to answer the questions of shoppers is what will set you apart this holiday season. These tips will help you increase your relevance, improve click-through rate, and answer the most profitable holiday questions.
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 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.