May 23, 2007 | AdWords Editor, google, Google Adwords, internet marketing, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, sem, sponsored search, web site marketing
We at Work Media have started using the AdWords Editor tool quite a bit. The AdWords Editor is a free tool that Google recently released to allow for OFF-LINE editing of your AdWords account. It is a bare bones application with a couple of neat features. One feature...
May 21, 2007 | google, Google Adwords, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, search marketing, sem, web site marketing
When setting up Google AdWords ads, you have to split your ad copy up into two lines of 35 characters or less. To save space, you may be tempted to split up a word with a hyphen, starting the word on the first line and continuing on the second line. This is often the...
May 3, 2007 | internet marketing, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, search marketing, sem, sponsored search, Yahoo, Yahoo Search Marketing
Okay, after months of researching, writing, scrapping what we just wrote, re-writing, and re-writing some more, we have finally launched our latest book:Yahoo! Search Marketing User’s Handbook & Strategy GuideWe believe this is the first book on the market...
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 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...