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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
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
December 11, 2009
Gregg Stewart |
Focusing Your Message from National to Local, Part 1 How to develop a strategic plan that includes Web site management, paid, organic and mobile search, display ads, Internet yellow pages, local listing feeds, and user-generated content. |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2008
Gregg Stewart |
Local Search Tactics for Tough Economic Times What tactics and best practices can we glean to improve our local search campaigns in these challenging times of credit crunching and receding sales opportunities? |
Entrepreneur
February 2005
Catherine Seda |
Close to Home Geographic-targeting features get your online message to customers right around the corner. examples: Community websites, Internet Yellow Pages, and search engine advertising. |
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
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
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
September 13, 2010
Kaila Strong |
Search and Social: Are You Missing Out? Examining social media's impact on search, and how best to integrate a bit of social into your search engine marketing (or search into your social media marketing). |
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. |
CRM
December 9, 2011
Judith Aquino |
Twitter Jumps into the Fray with Brand Pages Marketers get a banner plus video and photo-embedded tweets. |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 1, 2006
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Search Engine Optimization An interview with three industry experts on how, by utilizing search engine-based marketing, innovative banks can drive qualified traffic to their Web sites. |
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 7, 2010
Jason Tabeling |
Five Paid Search Resolutions for 2010 Here are five things you should consider doing to improve your paid search campaigns this year, and why they're important. |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2010
Kevin Gibbons |
Why You Should Change Your SEM Tactics for the Holidays How to be sure your paid search campaigns are working as hard as possible during this busy time of year. |
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
February 14, 2005
Shari Thurow |
Local Search Marketing Tactics It's tempting to think of local search as merely a subset of a broader search marketing campaign, but best results come with tactics specifically tailored to the uniquely nuanced needs of searchers looking for local information and services. |
Search Engine Watch
June 6, 2008
Gregg Stewart |
Winning the Local Search Battle - Part 2 Want to enjoy lower cost-per-sale and offer a better user experience? A highly customized, localized marketing approach is vital to your keyword strategies. |
Search Engine Watch
February 2, 2005
Shari Thurow |
Meet the Local Search Engines Local search has been hot over the past year, with the major search engines jostling for eyeballs, offering new features for both searchers and advertisers alike. |
Search Engine Watch
May 29, 2009
Gregg Stewart |
Ranking in Local Listings Why are local listings important? It's all about consumer usage. With so many consumers seeking local listing information, it's vital that advertisers with local entities proactively manage and improve their listings' accuracy |
Search Engine Watch
January 8, 2004
Greg Sterling |
Local Search: The Hybrid Future Last year at this time there was really no such thing as "local search." Fast forward twelve months and local is one of the hottest topics in search. |
Search Engine Watch
September 19, 2008
Gregg Stewart |
Getting to Know Local SEO Local SEO is a must for businesses that sell products locally to a specified geographical area. The channels consumers are using to search are changing. |
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
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
August 26, 2008
Mark Jackson |
SEO Success -- Guess What...Content Works! Fixing problems and implementing some search engine-friendly practices can have an immediate effect on a site's search engine rankings. But no search engine optimization technique works better than creating quality content. |
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
May 21, 2008
Kevin Ryan |
Yellow Pages and Search Yellow pages directories and search engines are hopelessly intertwined as directories feed search queries and search queries feed directories. A new spin on the old book might just connect the dots. |
Search Engine Watch
March 14, 2007
Michael Boland |
Google's Local Business Center and the Webification of SMBs More providers are wising up to the tactic of offering small businesses a free and easy way to get online, in hopes that they will transition into paid advertisers. |
Entrepreneur
May 2007
Catherine Seda |
Not So Fast . . . Don't just throw more money at pay-per-click - make it work for you. |
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
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
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
August 22, 2008
Gregg Stewart |
6 Tips for Aligning Your National, Local SEM Efforts The volume of local searches continues growing, which means national-level search advertisers must develop strategic plans for incorporating local search into their national search programs. The benefit: lower cost leads with higher conversation rates. |
Fast Company
August 2004
Alison Overholt |
Search For Tomorrow In an advertising environment that has steadily weakened over the past three years, search marketing has breathed new life into online advertising. |
Search Engine Watch
July 21, 2008
David Szetela |
PPC Keyword Sets: Words to the Wise Keyword lists are the bedrock of a successful pay per click ad campaign. Learn how to get started assembling lists that pack the most powerful advertising punch. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
November 1, 2006
Cook & Witten |
Legal: Keyword: "Infringement?" Google and other search engines sell pharma companies' trademarks as keyword search terms. Seems okay. If not for one thing: Guess who's buying? Your direct competitors. |
Search Engine Watch
January 23, 2008
Kevin Newcomb |
Search Marketing Predictions for 2008 We've collected the 2008 predictions of several search engine marketers, sharing their best guesses about the direction of the industry in the coming year. |
InternetNews
March 17, 2004
Clint Boulton |
Ready for Web Services? Take the Interop Test Now that interoperability testing tools are ready, the WS-I looks to improve Web services security. |
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
May 11, 2009
Joshua Palau |
Why Settle for Best Practices? Part 2 As a marketer, you can't take SEO for granted when working with an agency. They may be following best practices to build a search-friendly site, but don't assume they're implementing a full-blown search engine optimization strategy. |
Search Engine Watch
May 17, 2005
Tony Wright |
Search Engines and King Content A group of experts discuss steps you can take to make sure that your website contains content that will bring in traffic from search engines. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
November 1, 2005
Peter H. Nalen |
Alternative Media: Targeting Audiences on the Web The most important web page to communicate with doctors and patients is the page of results that your potential customers see when they use search engines, such as Google, Yahoo!, or MSN. |
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
December 18, 2003
Grant Crowell |
The "Secret System" of Search Engine Advertising Search engines have become one of the fastest growing venues in the advertising market. While ad revenue increases for the search engines, so do the concerns for some long-time search advertisers who have invested a huge stake in the industry. |
Search Engine Watch
July 28, 2004
Grant Crowell |
Search Engine Marketing and Branding Challenges Should search engine marketing be considered as part of a brand-building campaign? |
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
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. |
InternetNews
April 20, 2010 |
Google Helping Business Discovery With 'Places' Google folds Local Business Center into new Places services division, offering businesses new options to improve their chances of discovery on the search engine. |
Search Engine Watch
December 21, 2006
Amy Edelstein |
Optimizing Video for Search Engines With the explosive popularity of video content on the web, savvy search marketers can be among the first to catch a prime trend this coming year by optimizing video content to outperform in search engines. |
Search Engine Watch
February 13, 2011
Mark Jackson |
10 Types of Helpful SEO Content Forget algorithms. The biggest influence on search rankings is content. Content in all of its forms is what will drive you to success. |
