Category Archives: search marketing

How to Choose the Right Offer for your PPC Landing Page

October 14, 2009 – 8:30 am

Do search campaigns demand a different approach to offer strategy compared to other demand generation programs, say emails? Answer: yes. Remember, there are two fundamental truths about someone arriving at your landing page via a search ad: 1. He/she received very little information about your company in the ad (105 characters to be precise, including [...]

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5 Reasons to Include Branded Terms in Your Paid Search Campaign

June 3, 2009 – 9:02 pm

A client writes: “If we include our company and product names as keywords in our PPC (paid search) campaign, won’t we simply be cannibalizing our SEO effort, i.e. paying for clicks that we otherwise would have generated for free?” Answer: It’s true that you may have generated Web traffic from the same people anyway, but [...]

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How Do I Use SEM If People Aren’t Searching For What I Do?

March 11, 2009 – 4:48 pm

This issue comes up a lot with tech clients whose products don’t fit neatly into defined or established categories. A client writes (details changed to preserve confidentiality): “Our product is on demand health & wellness software for small businesses and we’re promoting it as a tool for improving productivity, claims prevention, reducing healthcare costs, etc. [...]

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Google/TechTarget Study Shows How IT Buyers Use Search

February 18, 2009 – 2:15 am

Too often, B2B technology companies fall into the trap of using search advertising (SEM) primarily as a means of capturing prospects in the latter stages of the sales cycle, i.e. those potential buyers actively shopping for a solution. However, search advertising needn’t just be about finding people ready to buy your product. In fact, using [...]

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Free Search Marketing Guide from DMNews

June 19, 2008 – 8:43 pm

DM News just published their “2008 Essential Guide to Search Engine Marketing,” a 47-page compendium of tips, strategies, and ideas for improving search marketing performance. As I write this, the guide is available free online as a PDF download. Topics include: the interaction between organic and paid search, testing strategies for ad creative, the wisdom [...]

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