Pay-per-click advertising is an awesome marketing tactic for some companies. For others it’s a total waste of time and money. Last month I mentioned our soon-to-be-published free report called Will PPC Work for Me? I’m happy to tell you it’s now available. The report gives you a proven formula for deciding whether or not PPC can work [...]
Continue reading...PPC: the Times They Are a Changin’ As I look today at what it takes to succeed in Pay-per-click advertising and compare it to requirements of the past, I have but one response – Whoa! That’s not my actual response but I never know who’s reading this. Anyway as Bob Dylan noted many decades ago – the [...]
Continue reading...Will Pay-Per Click work for you? Happy New Year everyone! In the 4th quarter of last year we began getting more than the usual amount of contact from companies interested in trying pay per click – whether for the first time or after a less-than-successful previous attempt. This increased interest is not terribly surprising given a number [...]
Continue reading...Forget about leads – worry about traffic. Lately the technology business leaders I talk with tend to be in one of two camps. They either want to generate more leads or they want to generate more traffic. The traffic guys tend to be those who sell online. Those who don’t sell online still think in terms [...]
Continue reading...Looking Differently at Links We’ve all followed links from one website to another, but did you know these links are an important part of search engine rankings? Over the past couple of years, links – especially inbound links pointing toward your website from other sites, have come to be a sign of relevance and authority. The more [...]
Continue reading...Keyword Selection – In the Words of Your Customers Today’s search engine marketing tip for technology marketers covers the first “rule” of keyword selection: choose the words your prospects will use to find a product or service like yours. Read that sentence again. This is very different from using the words you use to describe your product. I [...]
Continue reading...Getting Starting in Pay Per Click Advertising? Go with Google Once you’ve come to the realization that – for traffic building purposes – every software or technology marketer needs to be active in paid search marketing, the place to start is with Adwords – Google’s massive advertising program. Yes, there are other search marketing options – notably [...]
Continue reading...What is a Long Tail and What Does It Have to Do with Keywords? When it comes to researching and selecting keywords you will often hear the term “Long Tail” and it can be confusing. The name for “Long Tail” searches is credited to Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired Magazine. The concept is fairly simple. When [...]
Continue reading...Search Marketing Is Big and Getting Bigger Is Search Engine Marketing (organic optimization, pay-per-click advertising, paid inclusion) part of your marketing program? It should be. If you’re a regular reader of TechnoBuzz or you know me personally you know I believe that online visibility is a key to successful software or technology marketing. And online visibility starts [...]
Continue reading...PPC Ad Factors: Which Ones Are Most Important? Do some aspects of a pay-per-click ad drive more clicks than others? A recent Business-to-Business Search survey from Enquiro Research shows that yes, some parts of a pay per click ad are more “important” than others for generating clicks from technical buyers. I think it’s more accurate to say [...]
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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Written by: Susan Tatum