Valuing Keywords Based On Their Role In Conversion

Are you valuing all keywords equally, assuming they all offer the same benefit to your paid search campaign? That may be a mistake. Here’s a cautionary tale that shows you how to assign appropriate values to keywords based on their role in the conversion funnel.

Filed in: How To: PPC, Search Ads: Domaining


Playing Games With Customers: Is Foursquare The Future Of Local Search?

Congratulations! You are now the Mayor of Search Engine Land! If that sounds familiar you are one of the growing number of people using/playing Foursquare, a mobile app that uses the location of your mobile device to encourage users to "check in" wherever they might be in exchange for points and recognition like becoming the Mayor of McDonald's, or wherever else you might happen to be. Yelp recently launched a similar feature and GoWalla provides its own spin on this conceit. So more people are checking out checking in. You might wonder, what does all this have to do with local search? [...]

Filed in: Locals Only, Search Ads: Mobile Search


The Pitfalls Of Budget-Constrained Bidding

The downsides to overbidding on keywords are both plain and painful: low-quality traffic at a high cost-per-click (CPC) and a limited budget quickly blown away with little to show for it. But bidding too little, or just not properly accounting for budget constraints, also has consequences, some subtle and some more obvious. Here we will consider some lessons that will help you to avoid the pitfalls of budget-constrained bidding.

Filed in: Features: Analysis, Search Ads: General


Google Gets 75% Of Paid Search Clicks & Dollars: Report

Three of every four paid search clicks happen on Google, and 75 cents of every paid search dollar is spent on Google. That's according to the latest quarterly report from Efficient Frontier, a search advertising agency that manages more than $750 million in annual digital spending annually. The stats cover Q4 of 2009, and show Google's share of paid search clicks rising from 71% in Q3 to 74.4% in Q4. Yahoo's share of paid clicks, meanwhile, dropped from 24.4% in Q3 to 21% in Q4. Bing's share was down slightly, but remains up 31% year over year. The numbers are similar on the spending si [...]

Filed in: Google: AdWords, Microsoft: Bing, Search Ads: General, Stats: Spend Projections, Top News, Yahoo: Search Ads


OneRiot Launches RiotWise Ad Network For Real-Time Search

OneRiot has announced the full rollout of RiotWise, a service that it calls "the first ad network for the realtime web." Today's launch follows a pilot phase that the company says was successful in allowing developers to monetize mobile apps, desktop clients, social search engines, and similar applications. Partners during the pilot phase included Digsby and UberTwitter, among others, while advertisers included sports networks, news organizations, and entertainment sites. Here's an example of ads from the program being shown in OneRiot's feed, tied to the "Conan O'Brien" trending topic: [...]

Filed in: Search Ads: General, Search Ads: Mobile Search


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