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...
Apr 25, 2007 | internet marketing, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, search marketing, sem, sponsored search, web marketing, web site marketing
Here are some quick, non-mathematical thoughts regarding your bidding strategy.There is a fair amount of research that indicated that, in general, the higher your ad ranking on a search engine results page, the higher your conversion rate. So there’s one...
Apr 18, 2007 | internet marketing, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, search marketing, sem, sponsored search, web marketing, web site marketing
While discussing the proper strategy for a new client who is in a brand new market, we realized that paid search would work, but that we would have to go about things a different way. The problem is there is no search traffic of any significance directly related to...
Apr 13, 2007 | Google Adwords, internet marketing, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, search marketing, sem, sponsored search, web marketing, web site marketing, Yahoo Search Marketing
If you are on a very limited search engine marketing budget, you face two options when it comes to budgeting: either spread your budget out over the whole month (divide your monthly budget by 30) or spend it until it’s gone, regardless if you use up your budget...
