I’m not sure exactly when it happened but it happened. Search engine marketing has become mainstream. Businesses of all sizes no longer debate whether or not they need to do search engine marketing, the debate has become: “Do we do it in-house or do we hire an experienced SEM agency.”
Not long ago, many businesses who […]
Category Archives: Paid Search
SEM Has Become Mainstream
April 24, 2007 – 4:39 pm
Exploiting Site-Internal Search Systems for SEM
April 24, 2007 – 10:05 am
Many of our clients’ sites have internal search features, which allow visitors to the site to search for information within the site, such as a “Find a {Doctor/Center/Office/Event/Course/Dealership/etc.} Near You” feature. This type of internal search is powered by a searchable database, and the URLs of search results pages in this system are dynamically […]
Paid Search: Are you getting your money’s worth?
February 28, 2007 – 2:18 pm
The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) recently released its annual industry survey and it includes some truly remarkable findings. One such finding is that spending on paid search marketing was approximately $8 Billion (U.S.) in 2006 and that number is expected to double over the next five years. This is obviously a […]
Best Practices for Integrated Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
October 22, 2006 – 5:21 pm
As advertisers increasingly seek to synchronize their pay-per-click and organic search engine marketing campaigns, a new strategic discipline is emerging-integrated search engine marketing. The goal of an integrated SEM campaign is to deliver better overall ROI than search engine optimization and pay-per-click campaigns would have yielded independently. This article outlines the opportunities that are unique […]
Evaluating Visitor Quality without Transactions
September 2, 2006 – 4:10 pm
For transaction-based e-commerce websites, search engine marketing offers an unprecedented level of ROI measurement and accountability. E-commerce vendors can track their ROI on a keyword-by-keyword basis right down to the very last cent. But for other types of sites, evaluating the success of the campaign is more of a challenge. Consider, for example, […]
Who is clicking on your paid search ads, and what were they actually searching for?
July 22, 2006 – 5:36 pm
Paid search is often touted as the perfect advertising medium, in which ads appear only for those individuals who are actually searching for the advertiser’s product right at that moment. However, while clever search engine technology goes a long way towards achieving this ideal, the “match made in heaven” of paid search depends on […]
Report from the Search Engine Strategies Conference in New York City
March 22, 2006 – 5:06 pm
The search marketing space continues to grow by leaps and bounds, and if this year’s record crowds at Search Engine Strategies in New York are any indication, the search space will not be cooling down anytime soon. For those who could not attend here are some of the highlights from the conference from an organic […]
Do You Have An Effective Paid Search Campaign?
February 22, 2006 – 5:01 pm
Paid search engine marketing campaigns can be one of the most effective and cost efficient channels for promoting pharmaceutical products and attracting new patients.
But if not implemented and managed effectively, paid search campaigns can quickly burn through a marketing budget with little to show for it. In this article I discuss the key steps […]
Can Your Potential Patients Find You?
January 15, 2006 – 4:15 pm
Location, location, location is as important on the Internet as it is in real estate. Why spend time, resources, and money to develop a website that your audience can�t find?
All too often businesses invest a significant amount of time, money, and resources building impressive websites and then do little to promote them to drive the […]
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