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Search Engine Watch
February 10, 2010
Alex Cohen |
The Rise of Universal Paid Search 2009 fundamentally changed the balance between organic and paid search and introduced non-text ads to mainstream advertisers. 2010 will go even further.   |
Search Engine Watch
October 13, 2009
Carrie Hill |
Saturating Your Message in Search Marketing Tips to ensure your business controls as many spaces as possible on a search results page. |
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
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 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
December 4, 2009
Frank Watson |
It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas: Changes At Google to Increase Ad Spends With a decrease in overall advertising, Google looks to help offset some lost ad revenue by increasing the amount they get from existing advertisers. |
Search Engine Watch
January 12, 2011
Greg Habermann |
Google Product Listing Ads vs. Text Ads The results of Product Listing Ad tests. How did they stack up against the common Google text ads? An e-commerce case study. |
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
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
August 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Compare & Contrast: Ad Guidelines At Overture & Google Those new to paid placement listings might assume that it's anything goes. If you pay enough, you can come up tops for the terms you wish to target and with ads that say exactly what you want. |
Search Engine Watch
February 15, 2011
Alex Cohen |
PPC vs. SEO: Paid Search as Your Organic Competitor The balance between paid and organic results in the SERPs in shifting. Paid listings may increasingly get more clicks at the expense of organic listings. |
Search Engine Watch
August 18, 2004
Shari Thurow |
Creating Compelling Search Engine Ads and Landing Pages Effective search engine advertising goes far beyond simply bidding on keywords. With both ads and landing pages, you have scant seconds to capture the imagination and clicks of a searcher. |
Search Engine Watch
December 8, 2008
William Flaiz |
Universal Search Should Be a Plus Variety in the search results gives online marketers multiple opportunities to rank and gain new listing visibility. But how does the user feel? As new listing types begin appearing in results, we often lose sight of whether these listings are really helpful to the user. |
Search Engine Watch
January 18, 2011
Alex Cohen |
The Dawn of Paid Search Without Keywords We've seen dramatic departures in every step of how you advertise on Google. These changes underlie some of the key trends that will shape paid search this year. |
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. |
InternetNews
June 3, 2010 |
Google Snags Invite Media in Display Ad Bid Google continues its aggressive rate of acquisitions, this time snapping up Invite Media, a firm specializing in real-time bidding technology for selling display ads. |
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
March 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Up Close With Google AdWords Forget the hype about what the new cost-per-click AdWords program means for Google, in terms of competing with Overture. What's in the program for advertisers, and how does the cost per click pricing fit in with the existing cost per impression ads? Let's take a look... |
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
May 19, 2008
David Szetela |
Placement-Targeted Campaigns: Taming the Beast Having trouble with Google AdWords placement-targeted campaigns? Learn the secrets of getting those stalled campaigns off the ground, churning out conversions like the best search campaigns. |
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
August 1, 2005
Danny Sullivan |
New Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings Program Lets More Advertisers Buy Direct Ask Jeeves unveiled a new automated paid listings service today, Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings, that will allow anyone to purchase ads directly on the Ask Jeeves network. |
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. |
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
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. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
February 8, 2011
Jason Tabeling |
Measuring Free Clicks in AdWords Advertisers: Take advantage of free click ads to extend your share of voice on the page, improve the consumer experience, and determine the value to your overall search program. |
BusinessWeek
July 17, 2006
Jon Fine |
Today Search, Tomorrow Ads? Google, the company that takes in $6 billion from cryptic online text ads, is still testing efforts to sell Old Media ads. |
New Architect
February 2003
Amit Asaravala |
What Advertisers Want Selecting high-performance ad formats for your site |
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
August 27, 2010
Marty Weintraub |
Online Marketing Fundamentals For New Professionals, Part 2 A new crop of search marketers need to learn the fundamentals of our industry. Class is in session once again. Today's lesson: organic and paid search for newbies. |
Search Engine Watch
June 15, 2009
Ron Jones |
Effective PPC Ad Copy 101, Part 1 One of the most important factors of a successful PPC campaign is writing successful ad copy. You can spend a good deal of time on other aspects of your campaign but skimp on the ad copy and you might not get the results you're looking for. |
Search Engine Watch
July 23, 2010
John Lee |
Claim Your SERP Real Estate With Google's Product Extension Ads A quick guide on how advertisers can leverage Google's Product Extension feature within AdWords and display product images and details in line with your PPC ads. |
Search Engine Watch
April 19, 2006
Amy Edelstein |
Branding through Search: Strategies & Tactics Savvy search marketers are increasingly leveraging search for branding purposes -- not as an afterthought, but deliberately blending both old and new strategies & tactics. |
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? |
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. |
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. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
June 1, 2007
Canter & Schlossberg |
Marketing to Professionals: The Advertorial Effect A study suggests that advertorials are powerful marketing tools before and after a drug is approved. |
InternetNews
August 23, 2007
Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft to Beta Test Content Ads Microsoft next week will begin beta testing a new advertising offering for its online properties - keyword ads on content pages. |
InternetNews
January 14, 2004
Zachary Rodgers |
The Graphical Search Divide Graphics in sponsored search listings. Want them? Need them? Marketers are divided. |
Search Engine Watch
October 23, 2003
Anne Kennedy |
Balancing Paid and Organic Search Listings Do you really need both 'organic' or 'natural' listings, generated by search engine optimization (SEO), and paid placement, aka pay-per-click advertising (PPC), to be successful on search engines? |
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. |
The Motley Fool
August 20, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Is Google Un-American? Google and American Airlines parent AMR get into a war of words. Keywords, that is. This may seem like little more than a passing story, but there are serious implications here for the search industry. |
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
August 2, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Search Versus Search in Silicon Valley The Search Engine Strategies conference focuses on optimizing Web pages so they'll rank higher in search results. |
Search Engine Watch
July 15, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Google Simplifies & Loosens Requirements for AdWords Google is making changes to its AdWords program intended to provide advertisers with more control over campaigns while potentially improving relevance for users. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
November 2001
Melissa Campanelli |
Guaranteed Results Entrepreneurs are buying prime locations in search-engine results. Should you? |
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. |
