While this provides a great insight into the keyword performance, it doesn’t reveal the advertiser’s account settings like geo-targeting, keyword match type, or quality score. Google has announced a new AdWords feature promising to provide...
This first tab of this report, Targeting, will break things down by placing the title and keyword side-by-side. Google Analytics Custom Reports can be incredible time savers if you have the right reports.
Targeting capabilities are limiting and the interface lacks thorough reporting but the traffic through this network has some decent quality to it. If you happen to work in an extremely competitive industry you may find yourself paying anywhere from...
At the same time, the report said, "Smaller businesses will learn how to better leverage multi- and micro-targeting to optimize results, while national brands will drive more traffic to individual store locations and target consumers with more...
Conduct additional analysis to understand what is different: have you changed the targeting for these terms, or have users changed the way they search for your product/service? Getting lost in the trenches of PPC warfare is a common but dangerous...
In 2009 then-Google chief Eric Schmidt left Apple's board of directors and the two firms reportedly abandoned the informal "no poaching" deal which kept each firm from targeting the other's top employees for job openings.
The Penguin update algorithm appears to be targeting many different factors, including low quality links. More than 50 percent of links were targeting keywords vs.brand name or non-keywords. The Panda update is more of a content related update...
Fortunately, as Facebook continues to open up more opportunities for local targeting, social media is becoming more feasible. Social media presents great risks as it does rewards for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
Recently, though, Google made a slight tweak to location targeting that can affect results both positively and negatively. It’s basically the same as location targeting, and on the surface, it sounds good.
Before you get too worried about a competitor targeting your site to harm your rankings using negative SEO tactics, understand that: Targeting a site’s most valuable backlinks, a competitor sends emails notifying the webmaster that the page...
Lopez-Ayala also tracked audience demographics and used the information to fine tune voter targeting. Kate Kaye, a Senior Editor at ClickZ News, says, “Online video – from in-banner and streaming video advertising to short films on YouTube – is...
Geographic targeting is also an option (and very useful), and you can choose to see data from Klout, Kred or PeerIndex along with your results (you can’t see data for more than one at a time due to API licensing issues, unfortunately; none of them...
Facebook offers an advertising platform with unprecedented consumer targeting. Conventional wisdom suggests that a decade ago, digital agencies emerging from the ashes of the dot-com bust had a tough road ahead.
Are they obviously targeting the terms they are showing up for? Look at on-page keyword targeting of site pages in areas such as titles, copy, heading, alt tags and internal link anchor text. Competitive analysis should also take a position of high...
In “How to Find Profitable Keywords For Your Website,” we discussed methods for researching and logging your keywords, determining the relative profitability per phrase and touched on the need to schedule your targeting to help produce a faster ROI.
Advertiser Evolution: Advertisers are starting to take this reality to heart by building mobile-only campaigns that utilize location targeting (rather than port existing campaigns to smaller screen). Millennial Media reports that location targeting...
Except Google called it an algorithmic update that’s targeting web spam – a.k.a.keyword stuffing and link schemes, in the process causing some big search ranking upheavals. Google’s long anticipated over-optimization penalty is now live.
In-Stream ads work on the basis of contextual targeting, interest targeting, or demographic targeting. Campaigns must be specific; a demographically targeting campaign combined with topic targeting – even in a niche market – usually yields the best...
In that sense, it is more of a pure keyword targeting metric - a below average rating could be a strong indicator that you are bidding on the wrong keyword or not properly anticipating what people are really looking for when they do this search.
Grab a list of the most linked to (and most authoritative) pages on a client site and drop links on those pages to my "SEO landing pages," (i.e.pages you're targeting specifically for organic traffic).