Aug 20, 2007 | Uncategorized
Google continues to position itself as the ultimate integrated advertising platform with the recent release of its Google Print Ads service. You can now use Google to purchase newspaper ads on an auction-based system. This is good for both the newspapers and...
Aug 13, 2007 | advertising, internet marketing, marketing, Nashville, paid search, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, SEO
Work Media has opened up shop at our new offices on 2nd Ave. in Nashville. We have a “sister company” now, in Frank/Best International (“FBI”), a successful advertising agency with some very large clients that include Honda Power Equipment and...
Jul 30, 2007 | blog marketing, Blogging, blogging advice, blogging service, content creation, internet marketing, web site marketing
Jerry Work here. Man, I really “mailed it in” in my last blog post. In other words, I basically just slapped some words down to get something out, but did not put much real effort into it. But sometimes you have to do that just to keep the thing going. The...
Jul 23, 2007 | google, Google Adwords, internet marketing, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, search marketing, search query performance, web site marketing
There is a fine line between running ads for enough keywords in your paid search account to generate sufficient traffic and running so many that you generate junk traffic. Unless you only use exact match (or the equivalent). But there are so many variations of...
Jul 20, 2007 | advertising, banner ads, Branding, internet marketing, online branding, search engine marketing, search marketing
LowerMyBills.com has raised quite a stir in the world of online advertising the last few years for its crazy ads featuring people dancing or creatures acting goofy. The company spends $80 million/year online running those ads. But it has paid off because the company...
Jul 19, 2007 | google, Google Adwords, Google Analytics, internet marketing, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, sponsored search, web marketing
There seem to be some technical issues going on at Google related to reporting. We have one client who is unable to change the range of data reported in his control panel. To see a specific range of data, he has to go through the full process of creating a report....
Jul 17, 2007 | Uncategorized
One of the most important rules of paid search marketing is that there must be a strong connection between the search phrase used in the search engine and what is shown on the page when the visitor arrives. In other words, if a person clicks on your search engine ad...
Jul 13, 2007 | google, internet marketing, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, search marketing, sem, sponsored search
Well, we’ve done it – we went a whole month between blog posts. I am definitely not proud of that fact. Hey, business is good, but that’s no excuse to let our blog die. So let’s try this again.One problem we’ve had with Google up to this...
Jun 13, 2007 | internet marketing, keyword research, keywords, pay-per-click, PPC, reporting, search engine marketing, search marketing, search query performance, sem
We are running a large campaign for a software company that sales design-related products. A lot of our time thus far on the project has been devoted to ad group “expansion” (that is, expanding the number of keywords and ads in each ad group). It is a...
Jun 6, 2007 | google, Google Adwords, Google radio, Google radio ads, internet marketing, pay-per-click, search marketing, sponsored search
In our last blog post, we began a discussion about Google’s new Google Radio Ads feature. Today we are going to provide some more detail about the service so you can decide for yourself if this might be right for your.Currently, all radio ads purchased through...
