Paid Search
Articles and resources about paid search and search engine optimisation for websites.
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Paid Search - Archive
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Articles and resources about paid search and search engine optimisation for websites.
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Enter The Cookie: How RFSA Will Affect SEM
- by David Rodnitzky. Search Engine Land, September 24, 2012. "Imagine doing a search on Google for the word [fuzzy bunny slippers] and seeing a mortgage company touting their wares in the first paid result.
Impossible, you say, Google's Quality Score would crush this hapless mortgage advertiser in just a few impressions, right? Maybe in 2011, but maybe not in 2012.
The reason: a new AdWords feature called AdWords Remarketing Lists for Search Ads (sometime called RFSA). RFSA allows you to remarket to your site visitors – on Google Search Results..."
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Campaign Profit Calculator
- Panalysis. "... To be truly sustainable our advertising campaigns must be evaluated by the value that they generate. In the world of online retail this means profit from sales relating to that campaign.
To help you work out the profit from your campaigns Panalysis have created a simple calculator that connects to your Google Analytics account and provides you with a detailed breakdown of the revenue and profit from each of your campaigns..."
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A Beginner's Guide to Paid Search
- by Liz Kao, Search Engine Watch, April 18, 2012. "As a beginner in the paid search realm, learning the ins and outs of the digital marketing industry takes some time. However, sitting in on A Beginner's Guide to Paid Search, a presentation by Lisa Raehsler, Big Click Co. founder, at SES New York helped aspiring paid search marketers guidance on how to get up to speed in the most succinct manner possible..."
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Search Marketing Measurement
- by Julie Batten. Clickz, August 2, 2010. "Today, I want to tackle search marketing measurement, specifically for paid search (SEM) campaigns. I often talk about the importance of having a strong analytics framework in place before launching an SEM campaign, but I very rarely talk about how to do that. A solid analytics infrastructure will ensure you have the data you need, when you need it, to make informed campaign optimization decisions. Being able to make timely optimization decisions will result in significantly better performance than managing your campaign "blind". That is, without access to valuable performance data..."
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Campaign Settings, Part 2: Location Targeting
- by Josh Dreller. Search Engine Land, July 22, 2010. "You've loaded keywords and ads into the engines via the desktop tools and have begun to go in to the platforms and tweak the various settings we have at our disposal. Last week, we began a dive into these settings that included ad rotation, dayparting, delivery method, etc. This week, we're focusing on a single feature of the PPC platform, location targeting—also called geo-targeting. In general, location targeting lets you pinpoint the geographic areas you would like your ads to be shown in..."
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Take Control Of Your Campaign Settings
- by Josh Dreller. Search Engine Land, July 15, 2010. "Last week, in three easy steps, you uploaded your keywords and ads into your engine accounts. If you did it correctly, you will now have everything posted inside the engine platforms. Now it's time to check and tweak the settings to ensure that your paid search campaign will launch exactly as you planned. Today, we'll focus on the settings available to you in Google AdWords, as Microsoft and Yahoo are merging their paid search platform solutions and it's not entirely clear yet how that will all end up working..."
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3-2-1: Launch! Uploading Your Paid Search Account
- by Josh Dreller. Search Engine Land, July 8, 2010. You've done the research. You've done the build. Now it's time to launch! Step #1: Get an engine account; Step #2: Download the engine desktop editor; Step #3: Build your bulk sheet
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Coffee break with clients: the value of branded keywords with Vineyard Vines
- Posted by Agency Ad Solutions Blog Team. Google Agency Ad Solutions blog, Wednesday, April 21, 2010. "... Google Account Manager Kali Steinman had the opportunity to sit down with Quinn Veysey, Direct Sales Manager of Vineyard Vines, a clothing company known for its fun, comfortable attire. Vineyard Vines worked with Google to execute an experiment to determine the value of branded keywords to its paid search efforts. The company asked itself "are we bidding against ourselves and incurring costs that could be better spent growing the brand?" Here's what Quinn shared:..."
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The Brand Lift of Search
- Enquiro, November 2007. "More and more, companies are realizing the importance of creating a strong online presence both in the free organic search results and the paid advertisements that appear alongside those results. The tracking features of website logs and the measurability of pay-per-click ads enable marketers to monitor the traffic of their organic listings and the performance of their online advertising campaigns. However, it's comparatively more difficult to determine how the placement of those search listings and online ads affect consumer brand perceptions. In a first-of-its-kind online study commissioned by Google , researchers discovered a significant correlation between companies in the top organic and sponsored ad placements and consumer brand affinity, brand recall and purchase intent..."
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3 Reasons to Spend Money on Branded Terms
- By Jason Tabeling, Search Engine Watch, April 29, 2010. "... Increasingly more competitors, or resellers, have bid on branded terms since the policy for bidding on branded terms opened up after Google's trademark change in May 2009. Bidding on your own branded terms protects your ad space, because if it isn't you, it will be a competitor..."
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Paid Search Management: Campaign Organization, Part 1
- By Jeremy Hull, Search Engine Watch, April 27, 2010. "... Campaign organization is one of the most overlooked pieces of paid search management. It's not uncommon for advertisers to spend hours sorting their keywords into well thought out ad groups, and then limit their effectiveness by throwing them all into a single campaign. Two of the most important factors in your account's success are controlled at the campaign level -- budgeting and targeting..."
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Using Web Analytics For Paid Search Research
- by Josh Dreller. Search Engine Land, March 18, 2010. How a site's web analytics tool can help provide information to support a paid search campaign.
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Search Engine Optimization and Paid Search: What Should Your Philosophy Be?
- by Scott Buresh. Search Engine Guide, February 10, 2010. "... The true test of pursuing either an SEO campaign or PPC advertising (or both) is knowing that it all boils down to your company philosophy, ROI objectives, budget, and countless other monetary and marketing factors. To determine which, or what combination of both, might offer the most bang for your buck, let's examine five types of "models"..."
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Day One Of Paid Search: Know Your Goals
- by Josh Dreller. Search Engine Land, February 18, 2010. Discusses some of the common goals used in PPC management: traffic, metric, count, ROI, return on ad spend, cost per goal
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A Guide To Choosing Your Paid Search Management Tool
- by Josh Dreller. Search Engine Land, February 12, 2010. "For SEM pros, a search management tool is one of the most important pieces of technologies they own, so it's obviously critical to have the best tool for the job. I've referenced Bonnie Jo Davis's list of the ten capabilities a PPC management tool must have before in this column, but let’s review again..."
This category last updated: 25 September 2012