May 2, 2007 | ad networks, advertising, internet marketing, marketing, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, search marketing, sponsored search, web site marketing
You’ve probably heard that Google has recently purchased Double Click, an ad network management company. Well, in keeping pace, Yahoo! has just announced the purchase of Right Networks, an online ad exchange. Both deals greatly increase the respective...
May 1, 2007 | bid management, google, Google Adwords, internet marketing, paid search, pay-per-click, search engine marketing, search marketing, sem, web site marketing
Traditionally, bidding on clicks in a search engine has been a hit-or-miss proposition. You set the MAXIMUM you are willing to pay for a click, and then your actual click cost usually ends up well below that. To play the game, you have to be willing to bid high to get...
Apr 27, 2007 | conversion strategy, HTML, internet marketing, scripting, search engine optimization, search marketing, sem, SEO, tracking, web marketing, web site marketing
We have a client for whom we are managing a small pay-per-click campaign. We are trying to implement tracking, with a conversion being defined as the submission of a form on their site. We need to do this to determine what keywords or ad copy results in the best...
Apr 26, 2007 | content network, internet marketing, LookSmart, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, search marketing, sem, sponsored search, web site marketing
LookSmart is a lower tier search network that has a pay-per-click advertising model similar to the major search engines. The disadvantage of using LookSmart is that it has only a fraction of the penetration of Google or Yahoo (or even MSN, for that matter). The...
Apr 25, 2007 | internet marketing, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, search marketing, sem, sponsored search, web marketing, web site marketing
Here are some quick, non-mathematical thoughts regarding your bidding strategy.There is a fair amount of research that indicated that, in general, the higher your ad ranking on a search engine results page, the higher your conversion rate. So there’s one...