Developing an effective keyword strategy
Keyword Research Choosing the right keywords should be a top priority to start your company off in the right direction. Make your selection based on logic and common sense. “What would my clients be typing into Google to find my services?” Take your answer and make it more specific to the product or service you specialize in. Add terms that will help to identify a specific type of search that...
Driving calls with PPC: 5 mistakes most search marketers make
Bridging the online-to-offline gap poses challenges when using paid search to drive calls. Most search marketers want the same thing out of their pay-per-click campaigns: driving conversions up and cost per conversion down. Things get a little more complicated when the goal of your PPC spending is to drive calls to your business. Using PPC to drive calls is a common tactic in any considered...
How to reverse-engineer your online advertising strategy
In PPC, we often talk about eye-catching ad copy — but columnist Jacob Baadsgaard suggests that, rather than focusing on different ways to catch your customer’s eye, advertisers should start by looking at what customers are already responding to. Online advertising experts love to talk about the importance of matching your landing page content to your ads. And you’ll get no...
What is SEM?
If you are coming to this article as a novice, I know what you are thinking. “Not another damned 3 letter acronym! Don’t we have enough?” Well, apparently not, and unfortunately there isn’t all that much we can do to stop the ever growing database of aforementioned acronyms. We must therefore get accustomed to not only knowing what they stand for (Search Engine Marketing, in case you were...
5 key ecommerce metrics
According to IMRG, the eCommerce market in the U.K. was worth more than £133 billion in 2016. Compare that to the global eCommerce market worth of $22.1 trillion (UNCTAD) and it’s clear to see that online purchasing is taking over the world. The beauty of eCommerce is that it enables businesses to connect with potential new buyers from all over the world, at any time of the day. In 2017,...
What is the future of advertising?
The history of advertising goes back to as early as 2000 BC when the ancient Egyptians made steel carvings for public notices. The history of modern advertising starts with the advent of mediums of mass communication and first one among them was the printing press. Nowadays, advertising is a huge business, thanks to modernity, which has created such huge conglomerates which were never seen...
Beware these 7 sneaky PPC attribution tricks
You may think you’re hitting your conversion goals, but columnist Andrew Goodman warns that faulty attribution can lead to inaccurate or misleading performance data. PPC account managers are held to exacting performance standards. Their efforts are judged by KPIs like Return on Ad Spend (ROAS) and CPA (Cost Per Acquisition). That sounds simple enough. But it’s a lot easier to set tough...
Dos and don’ts of PPC advertising for universities
For those in the higher education vertical, columnist Pauline Jakober provides tips for making the most of your paid search campaigns. If you’re a marketing manager of a post-secondary education institution (or a PPC agency working on its behalf), then you already know that universities, colleges and similar organizations present specific challenges (and opportunities) for online advertisers....