Jan 29, 2007 | google, Google Adwords, internet marketing, paid search, pay-per-click, sponsored search, Yahoo, Yahoo Search, Yahoo Search Marketing
An “API” is an Application Programming Interface that allows you to hook into another computer system to exchange information with it. For example, Google and Yahoo both have search API’s that allow you to extract search data from their systems for...
Jan 26, 2007 | Google Adwords, internet marketing, paid search, pay-per-click, PPC, sponsored search, Yahoo Search, Yahoo Search Marketing
Yesterday we began our discussion of the dual disciplines of successful Pay-Per-Click (PPC) marketing with an explanation of the mathematician side. Today we continue that discussion by looking at the artist side – the part of the process that involves creative...
Jan 25, 2007 | Google Adwords, internet marketing, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, sponsored search, web marketing, web site marketing, Yahoo Search, Yahoo Search Marketing
Pay-Per-Click, or Sponsored Search, marketing is an interesting field because of the duality of skills necessary to be successful in it. On one hand, you have to understand the numbers – you have to know what a customer is worth to you, how many visitors to your...
Jan 22, 2007 | Google Adwords, internet marketing, MSN, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, search marketing, sponsored search, web site marketing, Yahoo Search, Yahoo Search Marketing
When setting up keywords for our PPC campaigns, it is generally a better strategy to set up keywords and ads with as much granularity as possible – in other words, use lots of ads for small sets of related keywords, rather than have a single ad running for lots...
Jan 2, 2007 | google, internet marketing, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, sem, SEO, sponsored search, web marketing, web site marketing, Yahoo Search, Yahoo Search Marketing
For our first post of 2007, we thought we would step back for a moment and talk about the differences between Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing, and which is best to concentrate on.Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is the process of optimizing...
Dec 2, 2006 | ad writing, copywriting, internet marketing, pay-per-click, PPC, search engine marketing, Yahoo, Yahoo Search, Yahoo Search Marketing
Here is some advice on writing successful pay-per-click ads.You’re probably going to have to write a lot of ads. Even if you only have 100 keywords in your campaign, those ads need to be targeted to the keywords. You can somewhat reduce the workload by using...