Mar 8, 2007 | internet marketing, paid search, pay-per-click, search engine marketing, search marketing, sem, Yahoo, Yahoo Search, Yahoo Search Marketing
Today we’re going to give a quick tutorial on using Yahoo Search Marketing’s Find Keywords tool. It’s a pretty slick little tool that allows for a good bit of tweaking. What’s good about specifically using Yahoo’s keyword tool rather an...
Feb 26, 2007 | internet marketing, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, search marketing, sem, sponsored search, Yahoo, Yahoo Search, Yahoo Search Marketing
Yahoo has gotten overly strict in its attempt to only allow relevant sponsored search ads. We are finding that a lot of terms that are not directly related to the specific product or service are being automatically denied. We think this is short-sighted, because it...
Feb 20, 2007 | Google Adwords, internet marketing, Microsoft adCenter, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, sem, web site marketing, Yahoo Search Marketing
Keyword tracking is very important to the success of a pay-per-click advertising campaign. If you have a conversion event page on your site, such as a thank you page or order confirmation page, you can measure your exact return on investment (ROI) or return on ad...
Feb 19, 2007 | internet marketing, keyword research, keywords, Microsoft adCenter, MSN, MSN Labs, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, search marketing, sem
We have been doing a lot of pay-per-click campaign management that spans all three major search engines: Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We’ve always done Google, but with the newness of the Yahoo and MSN ad interfaces, it has given us the opportunity to learn some new...
Feb 15, 2007 | internet marketing, keyword research, keywords, paid search, pay-per-click, search marketing, sem, sponsored search, web marketing, web site marketing
Keyword research is a very important part of the process of running a successful pay-per-click campaign. If you only run ads for broad, heavily searched phrases related to your business, you will likely be competing against lots of other businesses, and bids may be...
Feb 14, 2007 | bid management, internet marketing, paid search, pay-per-click, search engine marketing, search marketing, sem, sponsored search, web marketing, web site marketing
The American pay-per-click market is getting crowded. You can still keep costs down by taking a “long-tail” approach (looking for lots of little used by highly targeted search phrases for which to run ads), but with growth in paid search revenue for 2007...
