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If you’re a small company trying to compete against the big dogs in the PPC space in a competitive market, you’re probably either spending a huge chunk per month to reach the top positions or about to quit and choose other avenues. Read more
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At times we all take a little liberty with ad copy and weave harmless hyperbole into ads to help insure a good click through rate (CTR). It’s crucial that promises made with PPC ads are fulfilled, not only in ad copy and on landing pages, but with… Read more
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Since a few days Adsense Referral 2.0 the new PPA product is available to most of the Adsense publishers. In this short review the reader will learn the most important good and bad points. Read more
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"It never ceases to amaze me how short memories can be, and how easy it is for people to lose sight of the big picture. I’ve come to realize over the years that I can tell clients how they should judge SEM campaign success until I’m blue in the… Read more
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Coverage & discussion on the New York Times story "SEARCH & DESTROY", which states that paid search ads "could be one of the worst-spent marketing dollars on the Internet." This blog post covers why, with an untrained SEM eye, one might think that... Read more
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Where should Google draw the line between contextual adverts that honestly integrate as part of a website and those that go out of there way to optimise specifically for the accidental click? Read more
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In the paid search world, one of the most overlooked elements of campaign success is geo-targeting. For national advertisers, PPC geo-targeting is an absolute must; however, few are utilizing this tool to its full potential. Read more
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The US Dollar is at an all time low against the Euro and almost even with the Canadian Dollar. How does this effect your International paid search campaigns and does this give European companies the advantage? Read more
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Here’s one of the most common PPC mistakes : actually bidding for the term ’keyword’! This oversight is costing companies lots of money. Make sure you’re not making this mistake yourself. (Screenshots available) Read more
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This Financial Times article picks up a bit on something I heard someone else mention last week at the SES conference -- that the search engines might face revenue losses as the housing marketing in the US slows, in particular because of issues with… Read more
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You’ve probably never seen one like this Read more
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While bidding on competitor brands is not against Google policies, this guy buries a phone number in the display URL. Read more
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Miva sent out a mass email to their contacts asking for business information update. In the process they made over 1200 email addresses public to each recipient! Read more
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Naoise Osborne takes a look at the US and Canadian election campaigns and their use (or lack thereof) of Adwords marketing, trashes the Valleywag post from the other week, and does his own mini-analysis, the results of which are surprising. Read more
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I [Brian Carter] spoke at ScarySEO about optimizing your pay per click advertising. It was October 2008, not back in the 70’s as the curtains to the left make it appear.

The presentation was based on my 5 step process for optimizing… Read more
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It can be a confusing process to find a good Search firm. You probably find every PPC (Pay-Per-Click) vendor says the same thing. They all say they do the same thing, and they are the best.

Shimon Sandler has put together an organized list… Read more
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Pay per click budgeting is not a topic I thought you could devote a whole blog post to, when I first started doing PPC in 2004. But I was wrong.

Here are the five most important budget-related topics in pay per click advertising: Read more
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Increasing ROI by applying modern portfolio theory to Pay Per Click Optimization. Read more
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People who are just starting out with PPC often lose a lot of money at the beginning. Check out the 7 simple steps that you can easily follow and implement in your Pay-Per-Click campaign to SAVE tons of money and INCREASE your conversion! Read more
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Brian Carter walks through the basic steps of optimizing a PPC paid search campaign to get the best ROI and return.

"Hopefully I don’t have to convince you that you should be testing ads in your pay per click accounts. If you’re not… Read more
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Brian Carter writes - "After working with about 100 different interactive clients in various industries over the last five years, I can confidently say… When you work at an agency, there are things clients can do to help you succeed for them. And… Read more
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Brian Carter goes over the best reasons to use PPC as your advertising model. Read more
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In conjunction with our upcoming PPC webinar featuring Brian on 1/27, Brian graciously conducted an e-interview with me where he dishes out diverse information on many aspects of paid search. Read more
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Paid search rocks. Despite the endless debate about which is best, organic search engine optimisation (SEO) or paid search, both are hugely important aspects of online promotion. Read more
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An interesting article on return on ad-spend with respect to paid search, how it’s calculated (clears up some confusion for me) and how to use it ahead of launching a PPC campaign - includes a spreadsheet for calculating PPC ROAS. Read more
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