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New Study Reports Consumers are Suspicious of Paid Listings
New and very interesting research out of Penn St. University says that consumers have a strong bias against paid listings. “Consumers have a bias against the links that…
Search Spend Doubles, Sends Online Retailers 43 Percent Of Their Traffic
A new Forrester/Shop.org report finds that online retailers more than doubled their search ads spend from 2003 to 2004. Of 136 retailers…
Customize Landing Pages For Paid Search
Create New Pages for PPC Search Landing Pages from Kevin Lee at ClickZ reminds that with paid search campaigns, you can change…
Three Attorneys Launch a Click Fraud Clearinghouse
Three of the attorneys involved in the click fraud class action lawsuit that Danny blogged about last month have started a web-based…
Study On How Much Search Screen Real Estate Devoted To Paid Content
How Much of It is Real? Analysis of Paid Placement in Web Search Engine Results is a study now out that looks…
A Legal Look at Click Fraud
Click fraud has been getting a lot of press lately, and while the problem clearly exists, nobody’s really certain how serious it…
Reports from SES Toronto: Day One
If you’re interested in learning about what’s being said at SES Toronto, ace reporter Barry Schwartz (aka RustyBrick) has posted reports from…
Consumer Reports Holding Forum On Search Ad Disclosure
Trust or Consequence: How Failure to Disclose Ad Relationships Threatens to Burst the Search Bubble is the name of free one day…
2004 Online Ad Spend: Search Is Hot, But Contextual Pollution Of Figures Continues
As Gary mentioned earlier, online ad spending figures for all of 2004 were recently released by the IAB. What do they show…
Search, Local Newspapers Pulling National Newspaper Advertisers
Newspapers Find National Ads a Tough Sell is an interesting look from the New York Times on how US national advertisers are…
Portfolio Approach To SEM
Building and Managing an SEM Campaign, Portfolio Style from Kevin Lee at ClickZ looks at why you might treat the terms you’re…
You Gotta Try To Succeed With Expanding Keywords
In Accelerated Keyword and Engine Testing from ClickZ, Kevin Lee looks at why every keyword you try is a gamble, but a…
Google Is Responsive On Click Fraud — How About Some Balance, Says Goodman
The Search Advertising Story and the Quest for Balance from Andrew Goodman at Traffick has his take that on click fraud issues,…
Bristol Buys Search Ads
Google Adds Boost to Bristol from eGov monitor covers out the Bristol City County in England is generating traffic for its Askbristol…
Washington Post Looks at Click Fraud
Yes, it’s another mainstream press look at the click fraud issue. This time David Vise from the Washington Post writes, Google, Yahoo…
Search Engine Rep Spills On Click Fraud
Pay Per Click Advertising Fraud – The Inside Story from Joe Holcomb, senior vice president of marketing at the Blowfish search engine,…
Yahoo Extends Paid Search Deal With Lycos Europe
Yahoo has extended its existing partnership to provide paid listings to Lycos Europe in what’s called a "multi-year" agreement. The deal covers…
Media Companies Buy Keyword Ads
I’ve noticed some media organizations (NY Times, Washington Post, etc.) purchasing keyword ads from Google, Yahoo, and other services for a long…
Price of Search Ads Increases 9% in March
John points us to this Media Post article and chart about the latest Fathom Online Keyword Index. According to Fathom, paid search…
NY Governor Candidate Spitzer Targets Google Ads Against Prosecution Victim
New York gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer is apparently targeting campaign ads on Google to the name of one of his prosecution targets.…
Got Good Rep? Strut That In Your Search Ads
Give Your PPC Ad "Authority" and your CTR will skyrocket from Search Engine Guide has some nice advice on ensuring your play…
Online & Search Spending Rose In First Quarter 2005
Internet Ad Spending Up In First Quarter from MediaPost reports of a new study finding online ad spend continued to grow in…
More On Click Fraud, The Lawsuit & The Need For Third Party Auditors
After breaking the news yesterday of a potential class action lawsuit over click fraud against major search engines, the Wall Street Journal…
Online Spend Beats Radio In The UK
My wife used to be in radio promotions with the solid job when I went into that fly-by-night internet stuff. Well, love,…
Lycos To Distribute Ads Through AlmondNet Post-Search Network
Lycos in Deal for Search-Targeted Banner Ads from AdWeek covers how Lycos will be distributing its paid listings through the AlmondNet search…
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