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Search Engine Watch July 9, 2009 Melissa Mackey |
Using Geo-Targeting to Boost Your PPC Results Increased pay-per-click competition combined with low consumer confidence and spending levels often leads to higher cost-per-conversion for advertisers. One way to find new pockets of opportunity is by making use of geo-targeted PPC campaigns. |
Search Engine Watch May 25, 2010 Garry Przyklenk |
Beginner's Guide to Multi-Source Attribution Modeling How to help leverage decisions based on multi-source attribution modeling in Google Analytics, Yahoo Web Analytics, and Omniture. |
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 January 9, 2009 Gregg Stewart |
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics Over the past year, I've been in numerous meetings with advertisers, agencies, and online media vendors, and I'm often amazed at the confusion surrounding how local search campaign analytics are reported, and sometimes twisted, to create a desired story. |
InternetNews November 15, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google, Pheedo Give Away Analytics Growing interest in the analysis of Web site, blog and ad performance reflects a complex marketplace. |
CRM September 3, 2015 Jessica Hawthorne-Castro |
With Campaign Metrics, You Need to Go Beyond the Basics Here are four metrics to make your decision making more data-driven -- and enhance profits. |
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? |
Search Engine Watch January 24, 2008 Kevin Newcomb |
Search Marketing Predictions for 2008, Part 2 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. |
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. |
PC Magazine April 19, 2006 Matthew D. Sarrel |
Your Site's Stats Now that you have a Web site, it's time to learn how to analyze the traffic that your visitors generate. |
Search Engine Watch January 26, 2009 Ron Jones |
Web Analytics 101, Part 2 When using Web analytics, it's easy to get caught up in all the numbers and lose sight of the overall goal of increasing your site's ROI. It doesn't do any good to use Web analytics to produce cool charts and reports, but then fail to act. |
Search Engine Watch December 15, 2004 Chris Sherman |
State of the Search Marketing Industry 2004 Jupiter Research and SEMPO (the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) have released results of separate surveys providing one of the most detailed looks yet at current practices and advertiser spending in the search marketing industry. |
CRM July 1, 2007 Colin Beasty |
Business Problem: A Company's Marketing Department Cannot Effectively Track and Manage Campaigns Across Multiple Search Engines. Tech Solution: Search engine marketing tools. |
CRM August 1, 2007 Colin Beasty |
Tech Solution: Internet Marketing Solutions Internet marketing solutions from marketing automation vendors are now measuring key performance indicators from business intelligence solutions, Web analytics tools, and cross-channel campaigns to allow companies to optimize online advertising and campaign tracking. |
CIO November 15, 2002 Lafe Low |
Let IT Snow Intrawest, North America's largest ski resort operating company, prepares its IT systems. |
Search Engine Watch March 11, 2004 Jennifer Laycock |
Outsourcing Search Engine Marketing Search engine marketing is crucial for the success of online businesses -- but should you take on search marketing in-house, or outsource this challenging task to a contractor or agency? |
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. |
Search Engine Watch July 13, 2009 Ron Jones |
PPC Bid Management 101 There is a healthy debate out there on whether or not bid management tools are really effective. It comes down to the complexity of your campaigns and whether or not using a bid management tool will help you save time and money. |
Search Engine Watch February 14, 2011 Jeremy Hull |
Rekindle the Romance With Your PPC Campaigns Like relationships, paid search campaigns are complex, dynamic, unpredictable, full of ups and downs, and require a lot of work. Show your PPC campaigns a little extra love starting this Valentine's Day by following these tips. |
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. |
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 April 30, 2010 Marc Poirier |
Google Hearts Agencies XOXOXO Google invests in new training programs, changes the API fee system, and creates lists of certified partners. So how does this change the game for agencies? |
Search Engine Watch July 31, 2008 Ron Jones |
The Future of SEM Education Online advertising continues to grow in both good times and bad. That's good news for search marketers, and highlights the ongoing importance of search education. |
CRM April 22, 2015 Maria Minsker |
Evergage Integrates Its Real-Time Personalization Tool with Google Analytics The integration makes user experience reporting available on a familiar interface. |
Search Engine Watch May 9, 2008 William Flaiz |
Optimization by Numbers The automotive and online marketing industries share a common thread. Both reflect the growing complexity of modern culture. |
Search Engine Watch July 18, 2008 Elisabeth Osmeloski |
Key Themes in Online Travel Search engine optimization and pay per click play important roles for online travel sites. But the space is getting crowded, and costs are going up. Where's the online travel market heading in the second half of 2008? |
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. |
The Motley Fool March 30, 2005 Tom Taulli |
How Does Google Gauge Success? Measuring Web traffic is becoming a strategic business, as Google's latest acquisition shows. This is good news for the Web analytics providers, as the deals should logically push values higher. |
Fast Company David T. Scott |
4 Reasons Why SEM Is Better Than SEO Search Engine Marketing -- placing ads that appear above search results -- should already be in your bag of tricks. It's is more accountable, because sites like Google offer in-depth data about the performance of your ads. |
The Motley Fool December 12, 2006 Emil Lee |
On a Good Slope With Vail Resorts There might be a slick patch now, but investors will hit the powder. |
InternetNews August 23, 2004 Erin Joyce |
AOL Awards Omniture ASP Deal Analytics provider says contract with AOL is helping to lift concept of software as service. It will help AOL conduct real-time analysis of traffic across its Web properties in order to improve its feedback and understanding of how its sites are used. |
Inc. April 2007 Michael Fitzgerald |
Analyzing Your Website Software that helps you know what your website traffic really means. |
Search Engine Watch February 10, 2009 Aaron Shear |
How Strong is Your Search? If you're not using analytics in the right way on your large site, it will be difficult to adequately track your site's traffic sources. If you're not careful, you could end up with two competing teams -- one driving paid search, and the other driving organic. |
Search Engine Watch March 2, 2011 Matt Lawson |
Yahoo-Bing Search Alliance: 3 Key Findings All Search Marketers Must Know Is it a good time to buy in the combined Yahoo-Bing marketplace? A paid search study examines how paid search ads are performing. |
Search Engine Watch December 5, 2008 Elisabeth Osmeloski |
5 Tips for Travel Search Marketing in a Down Economy Speculation has been rampant about how the travel industry will weather the economic storm, while search marketers everywhere scramble to squeeze whatever they can out of marketing budgets before they dry up completely. |
Search Engine Watch February 23, 2011 John Lynch |
Mapping Search Strategy to the Buy Cycle A breakdown of the four major stages of a buy cycle, and opportunities in which search marketing, SEO, and PPC can be incorporated. |
CRM July 1, 2009 Jessica Tsai |
Search Engineering Your customers are searching for you. Unfortunately, if you don't come to grips with search engine marketing, you're making it harder for them to find you. |
CRM May 2011 Paul Hyman |
Web Analytics: What's Worth Paying For? While some solutions are free, marketers sacrifice time and rich analysis. |
Search Engine Watch July 3, 2008 Ron Jones |
SEM Going Legit - Literally EDU Many newcomers are looking for some kind of accredited SEM course. But for a university to offer such course, it must be created in theory, pass through boards and deans, and be completely vetted. That can take anywhere from two to five years. |
Search Engine Watch March 4, 2008 Marty Weintraub |
SEM Vendor Checklist An SEM agency owner provides 48 practical questions to qualify prospective search marketing vendors. |
InternetNews July 14, 2009 |
Search Engine Marketing Ready to Rebound? The search engine marketing industry has bottomed out, which could be good news for the online advertising sector. |
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 December 7, 2009 Ron Jones |
Usability and SEM 101, Part 1 To bridge the gap between setting the right SEM promise and delivering the expected Web site experience, we need to better understand users needs and desires and incorporate them into our Web design processes. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch June 9, 2009 Carrie Hill |
Dear Google Analytics... I'm writing an open letter to the Google Analytics folks on behalf of my small business friends around the Web. We're getting a little frustrated with the product, and the so-called "help" within the platform. |
CRM July 2010 Juan Martinez |
The Complexity of Collection A slew of recently released Web analytics products may advance the collection of customer data from social networks. |
Entrepreneur October 2009 Mikal E. Belicove |
Analyzing the Analytics How to make sense of your website's performance data. |
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 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 |
Bank Technology News May 2011 Shane Kite |
U.S. Bank to Boost Its Mobile IQ The Minneapolis-based bank is also stepping up its use of mobile data business intelligence to target sales and personalize customer service. |