This exact question was posted on SERoundtable and Google says the answer is an overwhelming yes. Several Google representatives all referenced a study that Google did last year that showed that sites who experienced high organic rankings and also participated in Adwords experienced 20% more overall traffic than doing one or the other. Google also…
Google‘s introduction of the “Quality Score” is a ever concerning issue for paid search managers mainly for the lack of transparency that it offers. While score 1 for Google as they are making an attempt to correct the issue by providing us an actual quality score on the KEYWORD LEVEL. The screenshot below indicates a…
With all the changes coming to the Search Engine systems and their tools, I’m starting a list of Tools that PPC people and other paid search managers find useful, since we can’t rely on the engines anymore. Yesterday I talked about the Yahoo Keyword Selector changes and Paul commented that we can still see bid…
On Monday Andy Beal had a good piece about his talks with a Googler on the topic of click fraud and how they say the actual click fraud that an advertiser sees is %1 or lower. Now in theory this is great but is it really an accurate statement? I don’t think so and here…
People new to Yahoo Search Marketing have the ability to check out Yahoo’s knew search marketing platform, codenamed Panama. Rueters is reporting that newcomers to YSM will be in the new Panama system as Yahoo is inviting customers to Panama in stages before its official launch in the first quarter of 2007. Personally, I’m not…
BusinessWeek.com has a nice follow up to the forgotten click-fraud case that pitted Google versus a click-fraud extortionist. To make a long story short, back in 2004, a guy named Michael Anthony Bradley rolled up to Google, showcased his click-fraud program dubbed “Google Clique.” Showing off his program that could generate millions of false clicks…
My wife and I were talking about the problems her company is experiencing with Google Checkout and it basically is the same problem for us PPC folk. She works for a small up and coming affiliate marketing company, similar to Commission Junction but with much better technology. All affiliate companies, including hers, are having problems…
Over on the Adwords blog Google has just posted a response to all the uproar over the most recent landing page quality update, most specifically this one. I’ll save you the effort of reading the actual post and summarize it up with one word, horse-poop. Can a page that has a high CTR or conversion…
A post over on SearchEngineJournal.com today was talking about his experience with click fraud and the second tier engines, in this case Miva. Second tier engines have a reputation of poor low converting traffic that is riddled by click fraud and this case is no different. SEJ noticed referrer sources coming from notorious spyware sources…
I was reading this post by Andrew Goodman this morning regarding the history of price increases in Google Adwords and their correlation to quality score and the quality updates. This was brought about by all the recent conversations regarding the new adwords landing page quality update that just happened but it got me thinking about…
This is something I was meaning to post last week, but I was busy slaying Tuna in the North Carolina Outer Banks, but alas I am back and hard at work here. Google announced last week that they will be updating how adwords evaluates landing pages. There are two points to take away from this…
Reports are going around that people are finally receiving their checks from the click fraud settlement a few months back. There is a webmasterworld thread about it here but for the lazy folks, here is what people are saying ” Got my $6.45 wohhooo! headed to McDonalds for a Big Mac on google. “ ”…