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Search Engine Watch November 3, 2010 Ryan Woolley |
Secrets to Paid Search Success Revealed, Part 4 Measurement and tracking is at the heart of any paid search campaign. Here's how to figure out where to focus your time and money. |
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 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 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 June 29, 2010 Eric Enge |
A Call for Call Tracking There are several compelling reasons to drive customers to their phones. Here's how to use it to drive your business via PPC and SEO, and some helpful tracking tools. |
Search Engine Watch September 3, 2009 Melissa Mackey |
PPC Integration: Integrating PPC with SEO, Part 2 Marketing silos aren't inherently bad, as long as there is communication. Sharing research and results between PPC and SEO teams will help improve both channels. |
Search Engine Watch June 9, 2010 Alex Cohen |
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. |
Search Engine Watch July 7, 2010 Alex Cohen |
3 Techniques to Avoid the High Cost of Free Search Marketing Tools Don't let people, process, or platforms stand between you and better paid search results. |
Search Engine Watch March 9, 2004 Jill Whalen |
Measuring Search Engine Success Whether you're optimizing web pages for top rankings or purchasing paid placement links, it's crucial to measure the performance of your efforts. A new generation of powerful search engine analytics software makes the job a snap. |
Search Engine Watch March 18, 2010 Melissa Mackey |
Boost PPC Performance With Google Conversion Optimizer Find out the best ways to use Google's Conversion Optimizer to boost your paid search performance. |
Search Engine Watch November 10, 2010 Joseph Kerschbaum |
How General Keywords Can Influence Brand-Related PPC Purchases Which search queries are leading users to make a purchase? The search funnel reports within AdWords can provide deeper insights into your account's performance. |
Search Engine Watch September 10, 2010 Frank Watson |
Tracking Success, Part 2: AdWords and Social Media Tricks and tools to help you track conversions in AdWords and on social media sites, especially Facebook and Twitter. |
Search Engine Watch August 23, 2010 Jeremy Hull |
What's the Value of a Paid Search Impression? Tie conversion metrics to paid search impressions with this incredibly useful tool for determining the true value of your paid search campaigns. |
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 September 12, 2008 Chris Boggs |
SEO Reporting: Going Beyond Rankings Enterprise-level SEO provides consistently outstanding ROI over the life of the project. One of the best ways to substantiate this is through ongoing reporting. But if you're just tracking organic positions and nothing else, you're doing a disservice to your clients. |
CRM October 19, 2011 |
Crowd Factory Introduces Advanced Analytics for Social Campaigns New metrics include Share Rate, Clickback Rate, and Social Reach help marketers better understand the reach and virality of their marketing campaigns and identify people who drive the most social traffic and conversions. |
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? |
Search Engine Watch May 3, 2011 Jason Tabeling |
Understanding AdWords Average Position: Optimize Your PPC Performance A key piece to your bottom line performance is understanding how average position works and impacts your campaigns. Test and optimize this data in context of your total search campaign to see your total results improve. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch March 17, 2010 Alex Cohen |
Paid Search Freakonomics: Finding and Ostracizing Losers Effective optimization is about picking on freaks and losers -- segments in your account that deviate from the norm. Here are six useful tools for setting context and hunting down paid search losers. |
Search Engine Watch August 24, 2009 Ron Jones |
Google Analytics 101, Part 1 How do you know if your site is accomplishing the company's goals or not? Google Analytics is a good choice to begin gaining this insight, because it provides great statistics for free. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch April 5, 2010 Nathan Linnell |
Measuring Social Media with Web Analytics, Part 2 Measuring social media is possible and Web analytics should be a key part of your measurement strategy. Part two of a two part series. |
Search Engine Watch January 20, 2009 Carrie Hill |
Testing Your Online Business Plan Monetizing a Web site is so much more than slapping some ads on a page and waiting for the checks to roll in. You need to create a business plan, and test viability of that plan before you spend any money on marketing and development. |
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 June 2, 2010 Kevin Gibbons |
How Is Your SEO Strategy Really Performing? Rankings, traffic, and CTR can be misleading. Here's how to avoid placing too much confidence in the wrong measurements. |
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 February 22, 2011 Melissa Mackey |
AdWords Campaign Experiments: Details and Pitfalls Campaign Experiments is a great enhancement that can really take your PPC campaigns to the next level, but it also poses many challenges and can be quite confusing. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch October 14, 2008 Mark Jackson |
Are You Measuring SEO Success Correctly? Ranking reports are flawed because they depend on everyone seeing the same search results, which just doesn't happen anymore. SEO success should be measured by the lift in organic search engine traffic. And to do that, you need to make sure your analytics are set up correctly. |
Search Engine Watch July 16, 2010 Frank Watson |
Paid Search Success Needs Great E-mail Marketing When developing your PPC strategy, don't forget about e-mail. Use your keyword, ad, and landing page data to improve conversions. |
Search Engine Watch October 24, 2008 William Flaiz |
The Organic and Paid Balancing Act As SERP listings and functionality changes, there are still two types of listings that have weathered the storm and are still attainable for marketers: traditional organic listings and paid search listings. |
Search Engine Watch April 20, 2011 Marc Poirier |
Google Analytics Brings Conversion, Revenue Attribution to the Masses Google has taken a long awaited step in the direction of clarifying and standardizing the attribution problem by announcing Multi-Channel Funnels. This is arguably the most important Google Analytics improvement in years. |
Search Engine Watch November 10, 2009 Carrie Hill |
Holiday Search Marketing? You'd Better Be! Tips for using PPC, retargeting, e-mail marketing, and viral marketing to help boost holiday sales. |
Search Engine Watch April 8, 2011 Jeff Ferguson |
Goodbye, AdWords Position Preference... We Hardly Knew Ye If you were still using the AdWords Position Preference feature, now is the perfect time to re-evaluate your current AdWords strategies. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch July 8, 2010 Melissa Mackey |
Facebook PPC: Finally, True Demographic Targeting! (Part 2) How to optimize for the best possible ROI in your Facebook PPC campaign. |
Search Engine Watch May 8, 2009 Chris Boggs |
Customer Segmentation and SEO -- A Beautiful Couple Search engine optimization on its own can be a very useful tactic to bring leads to your site. But developing a deeper understanding of your primary markets and using customer segmentation in your content become important SEO considerations that can lead to a higher probability of conversion. |
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 February 2, 2010 Herndon Hasty |
Selling Search up the Chain: Money & Traffic Looking to start a search campaign quickly? Make your case by focusing on the money and traffic that can be gained. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch March 15, 2011 Alex Cohen |
3 Tips to Use Paid Search for a Complex Sale Successfully targeting learners vs. buyers requires different approaches. These tips will help you reach your prospects when they're ready to learn. |
Search Engine Watch January 21, 2011 Rob Chant |
How to Configure Analytics for Your Small Business Website A step-by-step guide detailing everything you need to know for setting up bullet-proof tracking for almost any small business web site. |
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 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. |
Search Engine Watch October 28, 2010 Melissa Mackey |
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 April 18, 2011 Josh McCoy |
Analytical Measurement & SEO: Ignorance Isn't Bliss Not establishing SEO goals is bad. Even worse is not knowing how to evaluate your campaign. Here's how to understand and assess the causation of analytical trends. |
Search Engine Watch August 17, 2010 Adam Goldberg |
Optimizing Display Display advertising, with the advent of view-through tracking and attribution technology, is going through a major rebirth. |