Paid Search Drives Organic Search Traffic – A 48 Hour Case Study
Thursday, 16 October 2008
What struck me so directly, was how readily available and easily developed this insight was, once it occurred to me to try. 48 hours ago, I shut off a paid search campaign of over 10,000 keywords. The exact amount isn’t as applicable to you as knowing that this was the entire SEM campaign for a
- Published in Analytics, Insights / Research, Natural Search / SEO, Paid Search, Search
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Is Your Paid Seach Vendor Ignorant (or Incompetent)?
Thursday, 04 October 2007
Recently, paid search vendors have been an object of my scrutiny. In the process, I’ve been alarmed at the significant variation in capabilities between them as they make wild claims and in order to win business. One capability (or rather, incapability) repeatedly stuck out at numerous agencies; this angered me so much that I want
- Published in Paid Search, Search, Vendors / Agencies
Adchemy hiring a Search Engine Marketing Director
Thursday, 27 September 2007
Veterans of my blog know the last thing I’m going to do is start posting every job opportunity in online marketing. There are thousands of companies with enough need for experienced and inexperienced talent to keep most of our careers secure. That said, not that I’ve gone startup, I recognize how difficult it is to
- Published in Vendors / Agencies
Trademark terms in Paid Search
Monday, 07 May 2007
This point of view has been a few days coming as the implications of a U.S. District Court in NY ruling in April have yet to be realized. I hope you are paying attention. A couple weeks ago, Judge Thomas J. McAvoy ruled for John Hamzik, who holds a trademark on “The Dating Ring,” against
- Published in Brand Marketing, Insights / Research, Paid Search, Search
Google the Ad Network
Friday, 13 April 2007
And the winner is… Google for a mere $3.1b A agreement was announced today outlining Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick combining DoubleClick’s expertise in ad management and analytics for media buyers and sellers with Google’s leading advertising platform and publisher monetization services. I admit it felt a little weird reading the news on Yahoo! in a
- Published in Brand Marketing, Display Advertising, Google, Vendors / Agencies
Google’s Pay-per-action Model Needs to Track Performance
Tuesday, 20 March 2007
The big news of the day seems to be Google’s Pay-per-action model with blogs citing the potential threat to the affiliate space this “new” advertising option presents (another from Search Engine Journal). For years, we’ve considered Adsense itself a (if not THE) threat to affiliates as a model in which publishers are merely paid for
- Published in Advertising, eCommerce
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