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Obama Needs You! Obama Campaign Endorses Search Engine Watch Jobs Board

Barack Obama needs internet marketers to win the Presidential Election. So his campaign wisely advertised on the Search Engine Watch Jobs Board. You know Obama Rocks the Youth…

By Kevin Heisler · 14 May 2008

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Pimp My Site: Tweaking High Traffic Landing Pages

When you have a page that is bringing in a lot of eyeballs, it may be tempting to just leave it alone.…

By Nathania Johnson · 01 May 2008

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Killer Site Targeting: PPC Content Scrape & Bake Tools

Successful placement-targeted content campaigns depend on showing your ads on all the right sites. Here's a new tool and methodology for finding…

By David Szetela · 28 Apr 2008

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Q1 2008 Click Fraud Down from Last Quarter, Up from Last Year

Click Forensics has released data showing a decline in click fraud rates in the first quarter of 2008. The overall industry number…

By Nathania Johnson · 25 Apr 2008

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The Google Content Ad Fraud Lawsuit: Just the Facts, Ma’am

Google's being sued for tricking advertisers into advertising on its content network – but the truth may be more damning than the…

By David Szetela · 24 Apr 2008

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New Yahoo Feature Reports Number of Discarded Clicks

Yahoo has been throwing out bad clicks on search ad campaigns, but now a new feature will give further insight into those…

By Nathania Johnson · 23 Apr 2008

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B2B Advertising Brilliance: Word Frequency Techniques for Killer PPC Campaigns

Easy step-by-step instructions for building killer B2B PPC "content ad group" keyword lists.

By David Szetela · 21 Apr 2008

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Yahoo Implements Minimum Bid Price Change

In February, Yahoo announced that minimum bids for Sponsored Search will no longer be fixed at $.10. And yesterday, they announced that…

By Nathania Johnson · 18 Apr 2008

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Clickable’s SEM Software Gets Positive Reviews

Clickable is the latest Software-as-a-Service offering for Search Engine Marketers. SmallBusinessComputing.com’s Gerry Blackwell had the chance to get insight from one of…

By Nathania Johnson · 17 Apr 2008

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Yahoo’s Test of Google Ads is Successful, Partnership Progresses

Yahoo’s two week test of Google’s search advertising has proved successful, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing “people familiar with the…

By Nathania Johnson · 17 Apr 2008

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Paid Click Growth Slows, Declines in Q1 2008

Following a less-than-luster February, paid clicks were weak across the board in the first quarter of 2008, according to published reports of…

By Nathania Johnson · 16 Apr 2008

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Content Ad Campaign Keyword Strategy Revisited – Part 2

A keyword-targeted content ad group's keywords should describe the pages/sites where an ad should appear. The best keyword list is composed of…

By David Szetela · 14 Apr 2008

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A Look at Demographic Bidding for AdWords

Google's new demographic bidding for content campaigns seems to promise much better control over where ads are served, and hence better ROI.…

By David Szetela · 07 Apr 2008

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The Shifting Power of Words

In the glory days of advertising, consumers could be influenced by whatever words the advertisers fed them. Today, advertisers must learn the…

By Noah Elkin · 01 Apr 2008

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Content Ad Campaign Keyword Strategy Revisited

The keywords you choose for content ads play a different role than they do for search ads; a point that's often tough…

By David Szetela · 31 Mar 2008

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Non-Text Contextual Ads: Quality Score and Bidding Strategy

Running banner ad campaigns on Google's content networks requires different thinking than text ad campaigns -- thinking that's surprisingly counter-intuitive.

By David Szetela · 24 Mar 2008

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ABCSearch Acquires Social Search Portal, AfterVote.com

The largest private pay-per-click company has embraced the social web with its acquisition of AfterVote.com. The social search portal allows users to…

By Nathania Johnson · 19 Mar 2008

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The Why Behind Paid Search Trends: Measurability

There are countless reports that paid search is on the rise and is projected to continue trending upwards. But what are the…

By Nathania Johnson · 17 Mar 2008

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Craigslist Ruling: Does This Extend To Our Paid Ads?

A recent ruling in Craigslist’s favor may let our paid ad suppliers rest a bit easier, as they are all advertising conduits.…

By Debby Richman · 17 Mar 2008

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Tips for Google Site and Category Exclusion Tool

The 100 worst sites on the Internet: would you want your company's ads shown there? Solution: Google Content Advertising Site and Category…

By David Szetela · 17 Mar 2008

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Every Picture Tells a Story: Non-text Contextual Ads

Like contextual text ads, image ads must distract the user and sell a product quickly. See four examples of image ads that…

By David Szetela · 10 Mar 2008

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Contextual Advertising Best Practices: Banners and Video Ads

Google AdWords reinvented the text ad. Now: banners, video ads, animated banners.

By David Szetela · 03 Mar 2008

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Yahoo Changes Minimum Bid Policy on Search Ads

Yahoo this week changed the way it will set minimum bids on some keywords in Sponsored Search ads in the U.S., bringing…

By Kevin Newcomb · 28 Feb 2008

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Google AdWords Contextual Advertising Mystery Solved

Google AdWords contextual advertising created one of the search world's greatest mysteries. Solved here.

By David Szetela · 25 Feb 2008

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Fortune Tellers and Paid Bid Management

Keyword bid management for a paid search campaign can be accomplished in different ways. Are you trusting a "fortune teller" to guide…

By Pat Stroh · 14 Feb 2008

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