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 [...]
Category Archives: PPC
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 [...]
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 [...]
