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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
June 16, 2008
David Szetela |
Google Mobile Advertising on the Content Network Creating a mobile ad campaign that displays banner ads on Google's mobile content network can be ideal for businesses that rely on phone calls to start or close a sale. |
Search Engine Watch
September 8, 2008
David Szetela |
Killer PPC Ads: The Final Word These simple guidelines will pave the way to pay-per-click nirvana: double-digit click-through-rates. |
Search Engine Watch
July 14, 2008
David Szetela |
Creating PPC Campaigns: the 'Live or Die' Settings Think you know the right way to set up a new PPC campaign? Paying close attention to the details many advertisers miss can position you for success and help you avoid common pitfalls. |
Search Engine Watch
May 5, 2008
David Szetela |
Want to Double Conversions in One Month? Split Those Ad Groups Content Advertising strategy put to the test: Would your boss be happy if your campaign conversion rates doubled in 30 days? |
InternetNews
December 29, 2003
Janis Mara |
Display Ads Back From the Dead Perceptions of a decline in online display ads may be misleading. |
Search Engine Watch
July 7, 2008
David Szetela |
PPC Advertising: Art or Science? Pay-per-click advertising is 10 percent art, and 90 percent science. Learn the fundamentals and secrets of successful PPC advertising here. |
Search Engine Watch
September 10, 2010
Dan Yomtobian |
Display Advertising Views Have 'Positive Impact' on Consumer Behavior Think beyond the click: remember the power of the view. Despite the difficulty of calculating ROI on view-through ads, they are an important and effective part of any online advertising campaign. |
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
January 14, 2004
Christine Churchill |
Day of Reckoning in Search Engine Advertising Overture's announcement that it plans to separate contextual advertising from regular keyword-based search results and ads has garnered kudos from the search engine marketing community. Will Google follow suit? |
InternetNews
November 19, 2007
Kenneth Corbin |
AOL Seeks to Create Clickers From Tickers AOL's latest video ad initiative offers a new take on one of the great questions facing online advertisers. |
Search Engine Watch
January 4, 2011
Ryan Woolley |
How to Structure an AdWords Account -- A Practical Guide A walk-through of some of the core components in setting up your Google AdWords account, plus tips on particular AdWords features that can help improve your program's performance. |
Entrepreneur
May 2007
Catherine Seda |
Visual Appeal How to add video to your site. |
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 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. |
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. |
InternetNews
August 28, 2009 |
Google Opens Ad Platform to Third-Party Networks Outside ad networks approved by Google in coming months will get a crack at the company's AdSense publisher sites. |
Search Engine Watch
March 30, 2010
Jeremy Hull |
The 4 Keys to Writing a Paid Search Masterpiece How to draft effective paid search ad copy in 70 characters or less. |
Search Engine Watch
May 12, 2008
David Szetela |
Google AdWords Editor a Great Tool for Content -- and for Yahoo/Microsoft! Time is money, and these two tips will free up many moneymaking hours for you. See how Google has created a tool that will increase ad revenue for itself, but for Yahoo and Microsoft as well. |
Search Engine Watch
August 25, 2008
David Szetela |
Killer PPC Ads: The Fundamentals Writing small, punchy ads requires plenty of art and science. These guidelines will help get more clicks and stymie your competitors. |
Search Engine Watch
April 1, 2011
John Lee |
5 Ways to Push Through the Proverbial PPC Wall Ideas for how you can press on and find new and exciting ways to maximize your PPC performance when you feel there is nowhere else to go. |
Search Engine Watch
April 19, 2011
Melissa Mackey |
5 Often-Overlooked PPC Tips for Beginners If you're a PPC newbie, here are some basic strategies to get the best results from your PPC campaigns right away. |
Search Engine Watch
June 25, 2010
John Lee |
One Ad vs. Many: Understanding Placement Targeted Ads on Google's Content Network Using placement targeting gives your ad a huge advantage for increasing click-through rate and conversions. Here's how you can ensure your placement targeted ads have a fighting chance to perform. |
InternetNews
March 13, 2008 |
A New Ad Service For Google: Report Google will introduce a new service that Web publishers can use to manage their online ad sales and serve up ads each time a consumer pulls up a Web page |
Search Engine Watch
December 13, 2007
John Tawadros |
Search and the Comeback Kid: Part 1 Some kinds of online ads waned when marketers discovered search ads. But search ads led to content ads, which is leading back to a completion of the circle. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
June 11, 2009
Robert D. Hof |
Google's Grab for the Display Ad Market Google aims to unseat Yahoo and Microsoft with new, ultratargeted banner ads. Will Web publishers and online ad agencies bite? |
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. |
InternetNews
June 3, 2009
Michelle Megna |
iPhone 3.0 Mobile Ads SDK Debuts As recent data shows iPhone users seeing more ads in social media, AdMob unveils new ad formats for social networking, search and rich media display in connection with iPhone 3.0 launch. |
Search Engine Watch
January 9, 2009
David Szetela |
PPC Landing Pages: Surprising Examples It's time to kick off the New Year by looking at examples of good and bad combinations of PPC ads and their landing pages. We'll look at some real-world examples to see what they're doing right, and what they're doing wrong. |
Entrepreneur
April 2008 |
Cool Tool There's an alternative for entrepreneurs who don't want to make their own video or pay an outside firm to do so. |
PC Magazine
November 14, 2007
John C. Dvorak |
In-Your-Face Advertising One thing is certain: Web users don't want to pay for anything, ever. Sadly, the only way that equation works is with advertising. |
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
January 28, 2011
Ryan Woolley |
How to Execute a Flawless Ad Copy Test in AdWords Ad copy strategies and the steps required to confidently execute the test within Google AdWords. |
Search Engine Watch
October 20, 2008
David Szetela |
Measuring a Text Ad's Effectiveness Improving ad text leads to better CTR and quality score, which can help drive your CPC down, and/or let you buy more clicks per dollar. So it has a direct impact on your campaign's ability to increase the number of profitable sales. |
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
November 13, 2008
David Szetela |
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Click-Through and Conversion Rates What's a good click-through rate? What's a good conversion rate? That's not an easy question to generalize on, but there are some guidelines that can help you see if yours is acceptable. |
The Motley Fool
April 22, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Magazines: Booming or Faltering? Within the magazine industry, opinions appear divided on whether the business is thriving or just surviving. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
December 2007
Kim T. Gordon |
Simply Irresistible Follow these advertising dos and don'ts to draw customers in. |
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? |
New Architect
February 2003
Amit Asaravala |
What Advertisers Want Selecting high-performance ad formats for your site |
Search Engine Watch
May 11, 2006
Jennifer Slegg |
What's the Buzz Behind Behavioral Advertising? And why are search marketers so excited? |
Entrepreneur
September 2008
Gwen Moran |
Natural Born Clickers They might be clicking through, but will they buy? Don't just wait and see. |
Search Engine Watch
February 2, 2011
Thi Thumasathit |
The Challenge of Parenting Single-Keyword Ad Groups Managing hundreds or thousands of single-keyword ad groups is a big challenge for SEMs. Here's how advertisers can provide "only-child"-style attention to all of their keywords, customized, highly relevant ad copy, and landing pages scaled across their entire product portfolio. |
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
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
October 2, 2009 |
Study: Hate the Metric, Not the Display Ad The number of online people who click on display ads is down 50 percent in what could signal the end of the click-through metric. |
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. |
InternetNews
November 9, 2007
Kenneth Corbin |
Online Ad Spending Expected to Double by 2011 Even amid economic uncertainties, Internet advertising looks forward to strong growth. |
