12/4/2009
Google Offers Insights Based on Holiday Searches
During this 2009 holiday season, online retailers are paying even closer attention to what consumers are searching for on Google. And with the help of Google Insights for Search, marketers can turn this data into a financial gold mine by specifically targeting their holiday paid search campaigns and other search engine marketing strategies to the keywords and search terms that shoppers are using the most.
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5/21/2009
No SEM Value Meals Sold Here
by John McCarthy Director, SEO - ADOTAS EXCLUSIVE
The other day I followed up with a company that I spoke to earlier about creating a paid search campaign. This company, located in southern California, is an original equipment manufacturer that primarily sells to other businesses within the state. While this company could sell their products outside of California, the delivery costs of the product make such sales opportunities cost prohibitive.
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4/9/2009
Why Outsourcing Search Can Be More Effective Than Keeping It In-house
SEM, or search engine marketing, is quite possibly what’s going to keep you and your staff employed for the next three years. It may be hard to believe that something that can be perceived as glorified classified ad is going to save your business, but it’s true. SEM is precision driven ROI, and in a recession like the one we are currently experiencing, the advertising forms that are the most direct are going to be the last to get cut. SEM is very much what gives the entire internet advertising industry credibility.
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2/19/2009
Yahoo Launches Full Video and Image Search Ads
A Pay per click form of advertising which offers full motion video and integrated images was recently launched by Yahoo.Since its advent, paid search advertising has only offered text links in advertisements. This announcement marks an important advancement in online advertising. Marketers will often devote a certain portion of their advertising budget to text only ppc advertisements and another portion to banner and box ads that show videos or images.
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12/29/2008
Online Marketing Thrives – Even in a Recession
Online and offline retailers feel this economy – and not in a good way either. They’re suffering. But, some businesses manage to thrive, in spite of a bad economy. For example, there’s Evesaddiction.com, a site that sells sterling silver jewelry. The owner, Raymond Galeotti, reports that his sales increased by almost 25% during the holiday season.
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11/12/2008
YouTube to Sell Advertising on Search Result Pages
YouTube seems to be growing beyond just a social media site. It’s morphing into a major online advertising player, if its recent announcement is anything to go by.
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10/24/2008
Google Continues to Dominate Online Advertising
As search engine giant Google has become more dominant, it is doing away with the secrecy that usually surrounds it. What does this mean? That the company is making it easier for Internet marketers to use its technology to garner better paid search results and get a better ROI in other instances as well.
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9/2/2008
The Battle Between Branded vs. General Keywords
By Marc J. Wymar, WebMetro Director of Interactive Media
ADOTAS EXCLUSIVE —You spend many years cultivating a brand and building its equity. Or, in contrast, you build a business selling the brands others have built. Either way, when it comes time to market your self through SEM, you leverage that equity. Logic dictates brand-based keywords should perform best, and they often do. But can you distinguish what percentage of your sales are just brand-based conversions and what percentage is new market share generated through your SEM efforts?
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8/28/2008
McCain Campaign More Tech Savvy than Obama’s?
Practically every one agrees that Senator Obama has run a tech-savvy campaign, e.g., announcing his pick for veep via text message and the creation of a virulently active social network at My.BarackObama.com.
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7/1/2008
Search Engine Marketing Grows and Exceeds Expectations
According to the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization's (SEMPO) 2007 State of the Market survey, North American search engine marketing spending is projected to exceed $25.2 billion by 2011.
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6/17/2008
The Three Most Common SEM Ad Blunders of 2007
By Michael Behrens, WebMetro Vice President of e-Marketing As featured in the 2008 DMNews Essential Guide to Search Engine Marketing
One critical change search engines made in 2007 was a focus on transparency. Each major engine introduced reporting that shed light on what advertisers were buying. The three biggest advertiser mistakes, however, were based on their inability to take advantage of these insights.
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5/15/2008
Behavioral Advertising Spending: Online Advertising’s New Cash Cow
Eighty percent of advertisers believe that behavioral advertising is a good way to spend ad dollars. Proof? According to a recent survey by SEMPO, a search engine marketing organization, more than four out of five advertisers polled said that they would be willing to spend more to add this to their PPC campaigns.
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3/24/2008
Google Adword Advertisers Can Now Bid by Demographic
Google Adword advertisers can now get more Internet marketing bang for their buck. Demographic bidding allows advertisers to do two things, based on the age and gender of the users: (i) modify bids; and (ii) restrict visibility. The details of the program were announced on Google’s Adwords Blog.
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3/11/2008
Pay Per Click Means KaChing for Online Retailers
Online retailers in the US are in love with pay-per-click advertising. And, with good reason. More than 64% of the online merchants interviewed by Internet Retailer in February 2008 said their conversion rates were higher than 5%. The industry accepted norm is 1.5% to 3%.
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3/11/2008
Search Marketing Works for Online US Retailers
Now that US retailers know that search engine marketing works, they plan to increase their spending in this area.
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2/29/2008
Google Advertisers Happy with Downturn in Click-Through Rates
Apparently quality over quantity is what counts with advertisers. Contrary to investors, Google advertisers are happy with the downturn in click-through rates. Many advertisers view the lower click-through rates as Google paying more attention to the quality of click-throughs, instead of the quantity.
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10/5/2007
Search advertising accounted for 41% of first half's total revenue
At nearly $10 billion, Internet advertising revenue from search, classified, lead generation, e-mail and display advertising was up almost 27% in the first half of the year from the first six months of 2006, according to a new survey from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and Pricewaterhouse Coopers.
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8/28/2007
Report says online advertising dollars will be twice radio advertising dollars
Online advertising dollars will surpass radio advertising this year for the first time and by 2011 online advertising dollars will be twice radio advertising dollars, says a new report from eMarketer Inc., “Radio Trends: On Air and Online.”
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8/24/2007
Annoying advertising alienates consumers
Offensive or annoying advertising alienates consumers, according to a Streetblimps-commissioned survey conducted by the Opinion Research Corp.
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5/3/2007
ROI Increases utilizing WebMetro's proprietary DSMM
Merrick finds over 25% of conversions on brands stem from general search
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12/18/2006
Online spending reaches record high
Online shoppers set a single-day spending record last week - and broke it two days later - while holiday season spending is so far up 25 percent from last year, according to comScore.
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12/7/2006
Online Marketing -Online Spending Increases
The 2006 online holiday shopping season is upholding a new tradition: Sales since Nov. 1 have risen 25% over sales during the same period last year, comScore Networks Inc. reports, equal to the growth the industry has experienced for the past several years. From Nov. 1 to Dec. 5, online retail sales totaled $13.68 billion, up 25% from $10.98 billion a year earlier, comScore reported today.
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11/29/2006
Online Marketing - Monday’s online sales hit a record high
The Monday after Thanksgiving marked the first time that online retail sales surpassed $600 million in a single day and more record-breaking days are expected this holiday shopping season, comScore Networks Inc. said today. On Monday, eBay led in unique traffic, followed by Amazon and Walmart.com, Nielsen/NetRatings said.
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11/29/2006
Search, affiliate, and other pay-per-click marketing made the difference
Over the Thanksgiving weekend, search, affiliate, and other pay-per-click marketing made the difference online for the brands of multi-channel direct marketer Vermont Teddy Bear Co. Web manager Tom Funk tells Internet Retailer that on the Friday after the holiday, source code revealed that traffic from search and affiliate links was up two to four times its normal volume.
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11/27/2006
Value of Internet advertising and the exceptional ROI investment it offers
Nearly two-thirds of car dealers plan to increase their online ad budgets next year, according to a recent Cars.com dealer poll.
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