May 21, 2007 | google, Google Adwords, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, search marketing, sem, web site marketing
When setting up Google AdWords ads, you have to split your ad copy up into two lines of 35 characters or less. To save space, you may be tempted to split up a word with a hyphen, starting the word on the first line and continuing on the second line. This is often the...
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 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 27, 2007 | conversion strategy, HTML, internet marketing, scripting, search engine optimization, search marketing, sem, SEO, tracking, web marketing, web site marketing
We have a client for whom we are managing a small pay-per-click campaign. We are trying to implement tracking, with a conversion being defined as the submission of a form on their site. We need to do this to determine what keywords or ad copy results in the best...
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...
