May 7, 2007 | bid management, internet marketing, pay-per-click, PPC, roas, search marketing, sem, sponsored search, web marketing
We have given advice on numerous occasions about using an ROAS (Return on Ad Spend)-based approach in setting your initial bids. In other words, don’t just GUESS what your opening bids should be – use some logic to set a bid that will allow you to make a...
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...
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...
