Jan 30, 2007 | internet marketing, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, sponsored search, Yahoo, Yahoo Search, Yahoo Search Marketing
We have been spending a fair amount of time lately exploring the new Yahoo Search Marketing interface, and we’ve come upon one new feature that we are very excited about. It’s the Alternate Text option for your keywords. This option lets you place a...
Jan 25, 2007 | Google Adwords, internet marketing, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, sponsored search, web marketing, web site marketing, Yahoo Search, Yahoo Search Marketing
Pay-Per-Click, or Sponsored Search, marketing is an interesting field because of the duality of skills necessary to be successful in it. On one hand, you have to understand the numbers – you have to know what a customer is worth to you, how many visitors to your...
Jan 23, 2007 | brand, Branding, internet marketing, online branding, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, search marketing, sem, SEO
We are currently managing a pay-per-click campaign for a client that is going well in terms of driving traffic to his site, but poorly in terms of conversions. The problem is that our client’s web site does not look as professional as his competitors. This got...
Jan 22, 2007 | Google Adwords, internet marketing, MSN, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, search marketing, sponsored search, web site marketing, Yahoo Search, Yahoo Search Marketing
When setting up keywords for our PPC campaigns, it is generally a better strategy to set up keywords and ads with as much granularity as possible – in other words, use lots of ads for small sets of related keywords, rather than have a single ad running for lots...
Jan 17, 2007 | internet marketing, keword density, search engine marketing, search marketing, SEO
When engaging in on-site optimization (i.e., changing the code and text of your web page to rank highly in the search engines), one of the primary criteria you should use is “keyword density”.Keyword density is the number of times a keyword or phrase...
Jan 16, 2007 | content, content creation, conversion strategy, internet marketing, search engine marketing, search marketing, sem, SEO, sponsored search, web marketing, web site marketing
You put a lot of work into getting people to your web site – search engine optimization, pay-per-click, content creation – but it doesn’t mean much if you are not able to convert traffic into customers. Following are a few tips for improving your...