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Writing Effective Ad Copy

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...

Reddit Layout Changes

When signing into Reddit this morning and viewing a submission’s commentary, you may notice a slight change to their familiar sidebar. A percentage is now given detailing the proportion of voters who enjoyed the post, along with a few other changes.

Yahoo! Search Marketing Best Practices

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...

PPC & Excel: The Perfect Marriage

Image via Wikipedia Excel is undoubtedly the most important program I use in conjunction with my PPC work. It’s the Swiss Army Knife of online tools where I build my keyword lists, write my ad copy, prep campaigns and ad groups for uploading, and the center of...

10 Twitter Ranking Sites: Cut Out the Noise

With the widespread growth and popularity of Twitter these days, the userbase so broad, do you know your place within this vast social network? How do you rank amongst your fellow Tweeple? The following 10 Twitter ranking websites are being graded on a scale of 1-10...

Combating Click Fraud – Putting the Engines to Work

Click fraud is a way of life for the search engine marketer, but its impact can be minimized at the expense of the search engines. Here are some helpful tools to submit claims to the various click quality departments. It can be time consuming, but every dollar you get...

Twitter Gmail Gadget Developer Pushes Out Updates

It’s one of the more useful Gmail gadgets out there and it’s just got better. If you are a user of the Twitter Gadget For Gmail, you may have noticed a couple of cool improvements lately. For those of you who don’t know what the gadget is, it’s...

The Search Deal 18 Months in the Making

So it finally happened: Microhoo, YahooSoft, YaBing…however you call the search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo it is now officially signed with the biggest pen I have ever seen.  There has been tons of write-ups on the pros and cons by people with a lot more...