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...
Feb 13, 2007 | internet marketing, Microsoft adCenter, MSN, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, search marketing, sem, sponsored search, web marketing, web site marketing
Yesterday we began our discussion of dynamic text options when setting up pay-per-click ads to run on MSN, focusing mostly on the option to dynamically add the keyword into the title or ad copy. If you recall, there are four dynamic variables you can use in your ads:...
Feb 12, 2007 | internet marketing, Microsoft adCenter, MSN, paid search, pay-per-click, search engine marketing, search marketing, sem, sponsored search, web marketing, web site marketing
The Microsoft AdCenter console used to manage sponsored search ads on MSN has some very interesting dynamic text features that let you leverage your time and effort.When setting up an MSN ad, you enter text into four fields: Ad Title, Ad Text, Display URL, and...
Feb 9, 2007 | Google Adwords, internet marketing, MSN, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, roas, search marketing, sem, sponsored search, web marketing, web site marketing, Yahoo Search Marketing
When preparing to begin a pay-per-click (ppc), or sponsored search, campaign, it really helps to go into the situation with an idea of what the numbers look like. By “the numbers”, we mean what kind of return on your investment you can expect assuming...
