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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  [...]

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Pew Research: 20% of Americans Aren't Online, Don't See Your Ads

A bit of a surprise late Friday. The Pew Internet Project released its findings, that one in five U.S. adults simply is not on the Internet. So there is a “digital desert,” where senior citizens, Spanish speakers and low-income families reside, blind to search, social ads and streaming media.   [...]

Google Tweaks AdWords; "Revs Up" Contextual Engine

Google has made some changes to AdWords that will make it easier for marketers to create and publish display ads. One addition, a new Display Network Tab, will be introduced over the next few weeks. It is an interface built to run display campaigns, allowing users to bid, target and optimize display campaigns from a single place. It is based on what Google calls a "revved-up" contextual engine, w  [...]

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Google Steps Up Enforcement of Ad Quality Policies

Google has announced it has made improvements to ensure ads comply with its policies. It has: Improved “query watch” for counterfeit ads by widening its monitoring of sensitive keywords and queries related to counterfeit goods. Developed a new “risk model” to detect violations. Implemented a faster manual review process  [...]

Consumers Like Search Engines. Until They Start Tracking

New research from the Pew Internet & American Life project shows the conflicting emotions consumes have about search engines--and the difficulties online advertisers can face as they target advertising in this channel, or try to use the data to make personalized offers, which, as separate surveys have found, consumers actually like. The Pew survey asked how respondents feel about search engines and ot  [...]

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Consumers like it when companies are able to present offers tailored to their tastes. At the same time, they don’t like overt signs of companies tracking their behavior online. This dichotomy has been captured in a number of separate surveys. Some companies, though, are able to straddle consumers’ expectations with new tech solutions. Consider Sparkfly, one of the 60 technology firms presenting their business plans to venture capitalists and angel investors at the upcoming   [...]

Marketing Pros and Cons for Google+ Pages

The official launch of Google+Pages is bringing home the realities of this latest social networking platform for marketers, both its good and bad points. Not to Much Talking Allowed The latter, unfortunately, loom large for companies that wish to communicate with customers. Only one person can “own” or “post to” an account, notes Robert Scoble,   [...]

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Online Ad Market: Using credit cards to target web ads. Social Media: Why Google is talking up Google Plus engagement, but not other metrics. Wireless Broadband: Sprint and Apple are   [...]

Google's New Ad Format Brings Search Closer to E-Commerce

Google has unveiled a new ad format called Dynamic Search ads whose functionality suggests the search engine giant may be moving along the same path of AOL's Project Devil -- that is, a greater emphasis on e-commerce. Dynamic Search is aimed at larger retailers that have frequently changing inventory. The technology maintains a fresh index of that inventory using Google's organic web crawling technology.   [...]

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Google's Gripe Against Paginated Content

Google is giving preference to single-page versions of a web page as opposed to component pages that contain only a portion of the information, forcing the user to click to "next" and load another URL. Paginated content, in other words, can be counted as another factor it likely considers in search rankings. Some publishers may meet this news with dismay. As Silicon Filter   [...]

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