If you are a seasoned Google AdWords and Analytics user, you’ve probably seen that the clicks from your paid search programs usually don’t match up to the number of visits in Analytics. Why not?
One problem is that sometimes the clicks from Google’s Content Network are listed in the referral medium, not CPC. Internal ‘test clicks’ [...]
Tomorrow I’m presenting a webinar on how to integrate social media into your search marketing programs. It’s always exciting to find ways to make marketing programs work harder by leveraging two elements together to get more effective results.
Search Marketing is critical to the success of any social media marketing program, since you must get [...]
On Wednesday of this week (April 29), our own Dave Reske will be participating in a panel discussion led by Chris Brogan on “Innovative Marketing Programs Using New Media” at the Inbound Marketing Summit in San Francisco, California.
In his presentation, Dave plans to talk about how you can leverage new media tools to develop and execute innovating marketing [...]
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You once had first page placement, maybe even the number one spot…but now all of a sudden you don’t. So what happened? Does Google hate you? No, probably not. Here are five reasons why you may have lost your ranking, including a few quick-fix steps to getting back in the game.
1. New Competition- It’s entirely possible a new [...]
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The management aspects of an Internet marketing campaign can often be daunting. With campaigns that often have hundreds, if not thousands, of keywords to oversee, report on and manage, it can become an effort-intensive endeavor. There are, however, several tools available to the individual who knows where to look and how to decipher the information objectively, [...]
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Generating leads today in a slow economy is not an easy task. Business budgets are on hold or have been cut back and marketing departments all over are working amidst an air of uncertainty. As marketers are having to do more with less, there is an increasing demand for PPC programs to deliver more and more leads. [...]
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On Friday, January 23, I had the pleasure of sitting in on “Making Sense of Social Media for Your Business,” a webinar presented by Alf Brand and Jenna Jantsch of VerticalResponse.
It was time well spent, yes, but what I particularly enjoyed about the hour-long event was using Twitter to share live updates with our network of [...]
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We all know that search engine algorithms are a black box. No one knows for sure which factors are accounted for and how heavily they are weighted, but through experience and trial and error, we here at Nowspeed have uncovered four factors that can help boost your organic rankings and beat out the competition:
Proper Keyword Selection: [...]
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Remember when our only options of displaying ads were on Google alone or Google with the Search and Content Network? I do. Managing spend amounts by niche-targeting these networks was far more difficult to control until around the end of 2005 when Google expanded targeting options to separate the Search and Content Network.
Since then, we have [...]
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With the holiday season upon us and the New Year just around the corner, chances are that you and your team are taking a close look right now at your marketing budget for 2009.
And given the current economic downturn, of course you need to do everything you can to optimize the dollars you have available [...]
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