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Medium Data ROI Beats Big Data
Here I aim to coin the term “Medium Data” and explain why it can achieve higher ROI than Big Data
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Dealing with SEO Impact of Google Removing Right-side PPC Ads
During about a week in February ’16, Google removed Adwords PPC ads from the right side of desktop search results (mobile never had them). More importantly for your SEO performance than for your PPC, Google also added a slot to the ads on top, for a total of 4. This Read more…
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How to Avoid PPC Rip-Offs
Recently I’ve had a front row seat to a seemingly good PPC firm ripping off a client. It is a vivid case within the all too prevalent trend of bad PPC firms that hurt the reputation of the whole search marketing industry and drain cash and opportunity from clients. In Read more…
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How Simple Can You Make ROI Reporting for Search Marketing?
Google Analytics and paid software like Omniture provide tons of potentially useful information, but the amount of information can overwhelm and paralyze if you don’t distill it into a minimal executive summary. While every business has unique needs for metrics, all businesses want to see the resulting cash, so I Read more…
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Should You Hire an In-House SEM Employee?
My previous post discussed considerations in contracting with an SEM consultant, and concluded that you should (1) ask how the firm trains new and old employees and (2) interview the people who will actually work on your account. Here I address criteria for hiring in-house. My 2003 article “SEM: In-House Read more…
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Why are Search Marketing Firms like Hospitals?
The hospital’s website rocks, but who the heck will be holding the scalpel over your anesthetized body? Likewise, a search marketing firm can sport a fantastic website, employ great sales people, be led by a luminary (who used to do the actual work), but success for your website depends entirely Read more…
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Tips for Determining your Ideal PPC Budget Part 2
Welcome to Part 2 of “Tips for Determining your Ideal PPC Budget”. Last week, in Part 1, we started talking about a strategy for determining your ideal budget for PPC (for those who haven’t been lucky enough to have such a budget imposed upon them from above). This strategy helps Read more…
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Can Spending Too Little on PPC Labor Cost You More?
In previous posts I discussed how to allocate investments in SEO, and DISC’s head PPC guy, Dale Webb, recently posted on determining your ideal PPC budget. Here, I try to help you understand that if you spend too little in monthly PPC management, you will pay more in click costs Read more…
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Tips for Determining your Ideal PPC budget Part 1
How much to invest in PPC can be a bewildering task for business owners. We are often approached by companies that already have a PPC budget in mind, and just need us to help determine how to best allocate that budget. Just as often, though, companies have no idea how Read more…
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Top 3 Things to Look for when Hiring a PPC Agency
This is a topic that’s been covered in many other blogs over the years, but I thought I’d add my own perspective, especially since it has somewhat changed over the years as PPC Marketing, particularly Google Adwords, has developed. The initial approach a potential PPC firm should take to managing Read more…