Jan 28, 2008 | advertising, Google Adwords, internet marketing, MSN, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, sem, sponsored search, web site marketing, Yahoo Search Marketing
I’m still working on the specs for our Google AdWords management application. I have to say…even just doing specs for something like this is a laborious task. Trying to get everything out of my head and onto paper that I want the application to do is...
Jan 4, 2008 | ad writing, conversion strategy, copywriting, internet marketing, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, search marketing, sem, sponsored search
If you are driving traffic to your web site through paid search, but that traffic is not profitable, then you may need to re-examine how you are targeting your ads. Chances are your targeting is too broad. Remember, you don’t just target with your keywords...
Nov 19, 2007 | google, Google Adwords, internet marketing, paid search, pay-per-action, pay-per-click, ppa, PPC, search marketing, sem, sponsored search, web marketing, web site marketing
Google has changed the name of its “site-targeted” AdWords campaigns to “placement-targeted.” We’re not sure of the reason behind the name because it’s the same thing it was before – a way for advertisers to advertise on...
Oct 31, 2007 | advertising, Facebook, internet marketing, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, sponsored search, web marketing, web site marketing
Facebook has just released a new advertising platform called Flyers Pro ads intended specifically for serving targeted ads to Facebook users. Rather than serving ads based on keywords, like search ads, the ads are served based on user profiles. For example, you can...
Oct 18, 2007 | ad writing, google, Google Adwords, internet marketing, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, search marketing, sem, sponsored search, web marketing, web site marketing
We are perplexed by how mysterious Google tends to make things. Certainly, the company does everything it can to hide the intricacies of its search algorithms so as to disallow anyone taking advantage of it for artificial gains in search rankings. Fair enough. But...
Oct 8, 2007 | api, application development, google, Google Adwords, internet marketing, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, search marketing, sponsored search, web site marketing
Today we will continue with our series of posts chronicling the development of our proprietary Google AdWords management application.One thing that’s a little unwieldy about using the Google AdWords API via its various Web Services is that every time a Web...
