SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 11, 2012

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Reports: Google CPCs Continue To Decline And Yahoo/Bing’s Rise While Spend Overall Grows In Q1 By all accounts, paid search spending rose in Q1 2012 as compared to the previous year, […]

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

  • Reports: Google CPCs Continue To Decline And Yahoo/Bing’s Rise While Spend Overall Grows In Q1

    By all accounts, paid search spending rose in Q1 2012 as compared to the previous year, but by how much depends on the source, and the sector. Covario, which serves mostly high-tech clients, says paid search in the Americas grew 15% in the first quarter, while Adobe’s Efficient Frontier, which serves clients in a variety […]

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    We all try to send loads of search traffic to our websites. We invest loads of money in high rankings in the organic SERP’s and we make sure we have some huge budget we spend, spend, spend on clicks. The result? Maybe 2 or 3 percent of this traffic makes it through your website’s funnel […]

  • Four Steps To Building A Powerful SEO Brain Trust

    To the B2B marketer, few channels are as effective in driving results as a well-crafted SEO program. Whether the needs are lead generation, thought leadership, or competitive differentiation and brand engagement, organic results are the largest overall driver of traffic to websites according to market research powerhouse Forrester. However, when it comes to creating a […]

  • comScore: Only Search Engine To See Drop In Queries In March Was Yahoo

    comScore has released their US search market share statistics for March 2012 and the results show that the only search engine to see a decline in search queries from March 2011 to March 2012 was Yahoo. Google, Bing, AOL and Ask all saw at least a 5% increase in search queries, whereas Yahoo saw a […]

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    I recently participated on a panel at Brand Innovators E-commerce. The title of the panel was “Big Data Meets E-commerce,” moderated by Mike Peralta, COO at MediaMath, and it included panelists from Kraft, Dell and New York Life Insurance. The panel discussion provoked thoughts around the value of each user, customer interaction, ad creative, and […]

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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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