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Google Sitelinks for Ads

Posted on 15 January 2010 (1)

You have probably seen them numerous times while doing searches: The little sub-links below the main link on Google SERPs.  Those are called SiteLinks, and now Google has a beta in place that lets you include SiteLinks in your ads that reach top position.  Here’s how it works:
In the campaign settings you need to turn [...]

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Yahoo News + Google Updates = Busy Week!

Posted on 07 October 2009 (4)

You may or may not be aware, but in New York City this week is a little convention called SMX East.  This is one of the famous conferences put on by Danny Sullivan and team.  SMX East usually draws a big agency crowd, but as with so many conferences, is a great place for companies [...]

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My Quality Score is Fine, Right? RIGHT?!

Posted on 01 October 2009 (6)

Quality scoring is a black box.  Everyone involved knows it’s important, but some people consider it important enough to optimize for it while others go on about their day and accept the score they get, come what may.  Regular readers of these posts may realize that I am one to fall in the latter of [...]

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Writing Effective Ad Copy

Posted on 21 September 2009 (8)

Ad copy is a unique aspect of the search campaign because it is the only part that the visitor can interact with. Marketing Sherpa estimates say that a searcher will spend only 0.7 seconds on average reviewing an ad, yet in that small amount of time you must:

Grab the searcher’s attention against 10 organic links [...]

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Yahoo! Search Marketing Best Practices

Posted on 03 September 2009 (4)

You can find hundreds or even thousands of best practices guides for AdWords, but there seem to be very few that are written for Yahoo.  I assume that you will know some of the Google ones, as this post will essentially just show the differences between Yahoo best practices and Google best practices.  If you [...]

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