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 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 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...
Feb 8, 2007 | bid management, Google Adwords, internet marketing, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, search marketing, sponsored search, Yahoo Search Marketing
Bid management software for managing pay-per-click campaigns seem like a great idea. You tell the software what you want your campaign to accomplish, set up the ads, and let the software do the work of changing bids many times a day to accomplish your goals.But it...
