Mar 12, 2007 | google, Google Adwords, internet marketing, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, search marketing, sem, sponsored search, web marketing, web site marketing
Today we’re going to give a quick lesson on how to set up keyword tracking with your destination URL’s in your Google AdWords campaign. In Google, as in all the search engines, you want to try and use a separate URL for every keyword in your campaign, so...
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...
Mar 7, 2007 | blog, blog marketing, Blogging, blogging advice, internet marketing, keyword research, keywords, search engine marketing, search marketing, web marketing, web site marketing
I have a friend who has a vegetarian recipe web site. It’s a blog in which he posts every now and then with a new recipe. He asked for some advice on generating traffic to it. My first piece of advice to him was to make more posts. For a blog to be an effective...
Mar 5, 2007 | CMS, content, content creation, content management system, internet marketing, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, search marketing, SEO, web marketing, web site marketing
I have had a fair amount of experience working on optimizing web sites that were built on top of some kind of sophisticated content management systems (CMS), and my first thought is almost always the same: man, I wish they had contacted me before BEFORE building the...
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 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...
