May 22, 2008 | advertising, paid search, pay per click firm, pay per click management, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, sem, SEO, web site marketing
These days, anyone can set up a paid search account and call himself a pay per click expert. But there is a big difference between knowing how to set up an account and knowing how to maximize the profitability of that account. Before you hire anyone to manage your pay...
May 16, 2008 | internet marketing, pay per click management, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, sem, sponsored search, web site marketing
You have to have patience when running a paid search campaign. Here is a real world example, from our own Google AdWords campaign. We are running a promotion right now whereby we are doing free optimization analyses. We’re using AdWords ads, targeted to our...
Apr 8, 2008 | bid management, internet marketing, keywords, paid search, pay per click management, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, sem, web site marketing
In the course of working on our latest book, I have put a lot of thought into the concept of a trading-style system for managing a paid search campaign. There is definitely a correlation between investing in securities and investing in paid search. Every keyword you...
Mar 24, 2008 | bid management, internet marketing, paid search, pay per click management, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, sem, web site marketing
I’ve been reading a lot lately about trading systems – that is, rules-based strategies for making short-term investments in stocks or other securities. So far, most of my personal stock purchases have been made in more of an “investing” mode,...
Mar 3, 2008 | internet marketing, link research, linking, linking campaign, search engine optimization, search engine rankings, SEO, web site marketing, Yahoo Search
An excellent source of links to your web site are the sites that already link to your highest-ranked competitors. Do you want to really get in-depth in researching what web sites link to your competitors? Then follow these steps:1. If you don’t have the Firefox...
Feb 22, 2008 | article marketing, blog, internet marketing, pay per click management, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, sem, SEO, web site marketing
Well, well…here we are…200 blog posts. Please excuse us while we give ourselves a pat on the back…[pat, pat, pat]…We thought we would use this occasion to give some of our very best tips for promoting your web site:Pick one keyword for which to...
