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How to Earn a High Quality Score – Landing Pages (Building your SEM Campaign)

by SEO Info  on July 21 2010  in Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
In my previous blog “Ads and Ad Groups”, we discussed ads and the importance of grouping them with relevant adgroups and keywords. Next we’ll be discussing the importance of landing pages and what makes a good landing page. We will look at the theory behind landing pages and than a... [More]

How to Earn a High Quality Score – Ad groups and Ads (Building your SEM Campaign)

by Chris Sisco  on July 19 2010  in Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
In my previous blog, we briefly discussed keyword selection and goals for your SEM Campaign. Next we’ll be discussing how to group those keywords and make sure we select the right landing pages for each adgroup.Selecting adgroups can happen before or after the keyword research stage. I choose ... [More]

How to Earn a High Quality Score – CTR (Building your SEM Campaign)

by Chris Sisco  on July 16 2010  in Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
Directly from Google’s Adwords help section as to what effects quality score The historical clickthrough rate (CTR) of the keyword and the matched ad on Google; note that CTR on the Google Network only ever impacts Quality Score on the Google Network -- not on Google Your account history,... [More]

Old Spice Viral Marketing Campaign

by Chris Sisco  on July 14 2010  in Social Media Optimization (SMO)
Look at your internet marketing campaign, now back at Old Spice's, now back to yours, now back to Old Spice's. Sadly…it’s not Old Spice's. But it could socialize like Old Spice's.Old Spice recently launched a viral campaign that stars Isaiah Mustafa (the original actor from the Old Spic... [More]

What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

by Chris Sisco  on May 31 2010  in Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Client: “How do I get my website to show up as the number 1 result on Google/Bing/Yahoo!?” Me: “Search engine optimization – also known as SEO”Client: “What’s SEO?”Me: “Keywords…sitemaps…back links…blah…blah…bl... [More]

Are You Hurting Your Site with Search Engine Marketing (SEM)?

by Chris Sisco  on May 13 2010  in Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is a great way to fast track the lengthy process of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and obtain higher visibility in search engine results page (SERP) while delivering traffic from different facets of Google’s advertising network. However, every shortcut has c... [More]

If you build it, will they come?

by Dawn Wentzell  on September 9 2009  in Internet Marketing
It's 2009. Many of your competitors are actively engaging in internet marketing strategies. Are you? [More]