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Yahoo: Four Techniques For adCenter Optimization
Are search marketers leaving money on the table by putting clients' adCenter campaigns on "autopilot?" “It’s time for a reality check,†say the experts at Yahoo! Advertising Solutions. Guest Blogger Marc Poirier observes that search marketers have plenty of opportunities to boost impressions and pay-per-click (PPC) results. (Acquisio is a perform [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 9th 2012
How to: Best use Google's Sitelink update | Use CRM add-ones to replace marketing automation
How to Best Use Google’s Sitelink Update
Earlier this month Google updated the way it presents Sitelinks, making them full-size links with a URL and one line of snippet text. It also increased the maximum number of sitelinks per query from eight to 12. To take advantage of the change, Uri Bar-Joseph at Optify suggests these tactics:
Have a clean top level navigation with descriptive anchor text.
Put des [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 24th 2011
How to: Ruin a paid search ad campaign | Ruin a customer survey
How to Ruin a Paid Search Ad Campaign
There are lots of ways, 13 in fact, as listed by Hubspot in this blog post. Some easily overlooked ones include:
Failing to Use All the Space Available to You: “Make use of the 70 characters you have, and do something that will capture the searcher’s attention. You should also leverage the display URL [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 23rd 2011
How to: Stop shopping cart abandonment with one step | Avoid spiders
How to Stop Shopping Cart Abandonment With One Step
A lot has been written about this, including here in MarketingVOX and here and [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 9th 2011
How to: Check your backlinks | Not respond to an unsubscribe
How to Check Your Backlinks
Rob Chant at Search Engine Watch takes on this subject in this excellent post. Some tips he offers (but read the entire post to get full advantage): First, don’t use Google's search operator to check links "it's notoriously inaccurate," he says. Instead, go to [...]
Posted: Friday, August 5th 2011
How: to Get along with Panda 2.2 | Make sense of Google's search for authenticity
How to work with Panda 2.2
Pocket-lint’s website took a hit when Google updated Panda earlier this year. This is how the site recovered, it explains in a blog post.
It simplified everything. “We’ve treated the Panda update as if it was a 5-year-old child. That means anything complicated has gone. If your kid or your grandma can't understand the design, it should go.â [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 4th 2011
How to: Create and manage test users with Facebook | Submit URLs to Google with Fetch as Googlebot
How to Create and Manage Test Users with Facebook
Facebook has introduced new functionality for developers to create and add test users to an app from the developer site. Test users are invisible user accounts associated with an app created for the purpose of testing its functionality, Chris Dentel explains in this blog post - in short, they are not visib [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 3rd 2011
How to: Use display to best support search ads | Connect LinkedIn and Twitter
How to Use Display to Best Support Search Ads
Marin Software outlines five steps in this blog post, including a focus on performance. Identifying which sites and keywords are producing a knock on effect enables the marketer to establish areas of focus and understand any correlation between metrics. If increasing spend on certain targeted display channels appear to be dr [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 2nd 2011
Closing Bell: Google search optimized for tablets | Facebook launches bug bounty
Search:
Google Search optimized for iPads, Android tablets.
Local business site challenges Google ranking.
Mobile Computing:
Android Market update al [...]
Posted: Friday, July 29th 2011
How To: Get +1 to work faster | Track Mentions Of Links Shared On Twitter
How to Get +1 to Work Faster
Google has introduced two updates that make the +1 button and the page loading it faster. One requires nothing from the user: it is a set of changes that will make the button render up to 3x faster.
Google has also introduced an asynchronous snippet that allows the web page to continue loading while the browser downloads the +1 JavaScript. "By loading thes [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 27th 2011
How to make RSS feeds for Google+ profiles | Keep auto-scaling from breaking a mobile layout
How to Make RSS Feeds for Google+ Profiles
A new app called Google Plus User Feed lets you see Google+ posts in an RSS reader, according to Lifehacker. All that is required is a Google+ user's profile ID, the Google Plus User Feed URL and the RSS reader to add it to, it says.
The user’s profile ID is found in the URL - it is a long series of [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 19th 2011
60 Second Problem Solver: How Important is Page Load Time to Search and What Can I Do About It?
Last April after much suggestion that it would do so, Google pulled the triggered and announced it was incorporating site speed into its search ranking algorithm. Still, though, website load times may be more important than many people realize, says Craig Macdonald, Covario’s CMO and SVP for Products. "Our investigations have found Google is sensitive to the amount of time it takes for a page to load," he [...]
Posted: Monday, March 7th 2011
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/14/09
Account Moves:
TVGuide.com has selected PubMatic to optimize its ad revenue.
Strategies:
Package-goods players are ramping up online spend.
Email Marketing:
Embedded video in e-mail slows [...]
Posted: Monday, December 14th 2009
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/05/09
Online Media:
Murdoch: Plan to charge for online content delayed.
News Corp reports steep drop at digital unit.
Search:
Google Analytics for mobile apps rolls out. [...]
Posted: Thursday, November 5th 2009
How-To: Track Rep and Keywords from a Unified Feed
In a media climate in which anyone can publish material about anything they like, anytime they wish, it is crucial for marketers to keep a close eye on what others are saying about their brands.
To simplify the process of scanning thousands of blogs, review sites, "tweets," forums and social networks, Search Engine Journal's Ann Smarty recommends Feed Killer, a simple [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 15th 2009
How To: Strengthen Your Pay-Per-Click Chops
Effective PPC management demands persistence, creativity, and discipline. The following steps should help strengthen your campaigns and help to determine and meet your ROI goals (via NVI Solutions).
1. Keywords
Regularly adding new keywords to your ad groups will help you capitalize on new or missed traffic. Use [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 10th 2009
How To: Optimize For Conversion In Organic Search Results
SEO success - traditionally measured by target keyword rankings and traffic - should be measured by ROI instead, according to a presentation given at eMetrics San Jose 2009.
Below, some highlights (via Search Engine Land).
Rather than rankings and traffic, focus on conversions - that is, impact on revenue - as measures of success.
Calculate the ROI o [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 20th 2009
How-To: Optimizing Image Use in Social Media
Images are among the most powerful tools in social media: they are easily consumed, and offer more stimulating information than text.
And since most people are busy and increasingly tightfisted with time, mastering the image -- which takes little effort to scan -- has a lot of appeal.
Search Engine Land provides advice on how to apply this medium into a successful media campa [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 25th 2009
How-to: A Rough Guide To Advertising On Facebook
A recent collaborative effort by SEOmoz CEO Randfish and David Klein offers advice on how best to leverage advertising on Facebook and build investment confidence in the space.
The following is a summary of their findings, posted on SEOmoz.com.
Facebook, sporting hundreds of millions of users, makes a compelling case for investing (chart [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 18th 2009
How-To: Using SEO to Manage Your Online Reputation
Is there a page you don't like about your company on the web? The best way to "take care" of undesirable material with a high organic ranking is through search engine optimization, writes SEOmoz.
Google has posted advice on how to remove unwanted pages, but its strategy is mostly to contact [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 11th 2009