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Bidding On Competitor Brands Names – PPC

July 27, 2010

Bidding on competitor brand names can be an effective and profitable tactic for your PPC marketing campaigns. If done correctly, you can present your company’s brand and/or products side by side to someone who is searching for  products or services that you also offer. The key to success is setting up a proper account structure [...]

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Query -> Text Ad -> Landing Page Consistency

June 7, 2010

In order to maximize conversions it is important to present your potential customers with the information or answer they are searching for. A person heads to a search engine to ask a question, our job as SEMs is to answer their question in a small ad and direct them to our or our customer’s website [...]

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Effectively Using Broad Match – PPC

May 12, 2010

If Paid Search is Google’s Cash Cow – then broad match is the feed they are shoving down the cows throat. Left unwatched – Google can and will match your keywords and ads to outlandish and somewhat irrelevant search queries. But with enough attention, negative keywords and query mining broad match can be an asset [...]

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Optimize For Google Image Search

May 5, 2010

While natural search drives the bulk of search engine traffic, with the universal search results on the increase there a lots of benefits to come from optimising for the other search verticals, namely image, news, video, product and local. An often overlooked vertical is image search. While this tends not to be the most rewarding [...]

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4 Resume Tips To Get That SEM/SEO Interview

April 29, 2010

The job market, though improving is still quite rough. Competition is high due to the massive amounts of people who are unemployed and the small amount of companies that are actively hiring. Fortunately for those involved in search engine or some type of online marketing, our industry has been one of the least affected by [...]

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