Shoemoney posted this article about how he bolded keywords in his Adwords ads and increased his clicks by 25%. In theory he is exactly right, having bold words in your ads will definitely increase traffic but only to an extent. I also don’t believe his > reason is exactly the reason why he saw an…
I have about 10 tabs open in my FireFox that I’ve been meaning to post about for ages so I am hopefully going to catch up on this in the next week or 2. With that said, Scott Woodard, not recently wrote a good article on MarketingPilgrim going over some PPC branding strategies that everyone…
I already despise the Google Quality Score for its lack of transparency as I believe its a way for Google to hike up bid prices. Well, apparently Yahoo thought it was a good idea because starting Feb. 5th paid search ads will be ranked using an “Ad Quality” ranking. According to the email Yahoo sent:…
I was reading SearchEngineJournal’s recommendation about not putting all of your budget into Google and I want to agree, BUT with one stipulation; Adjust your time not your budget. I’m making the assumption that if you are managing your own campaign or campaigns for others, you did not just split up the budgets 1/3, 1/3…
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…