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The Pendulum

Much of life seems to move like a pendulum.

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Time is Money in Paid Search

Get the most bang for your buck in paid search by focusing on the highest priority issues.

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Useful links from RKG Blog

Some links for tomorrow’s post

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Dropping Bids on Bing: Be Ready

Mixing Bing and Yahoo traffic will impact the quality of traffic and influence bids.

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Advanced Keyword List Management

High product turnover is a paid search management challenge, which, through well-regulated use of smart tools can be handled effectively.

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A Few Questions for James Zolman

James, if you have a moment, I have a few questions.

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The Paid Search Business: Client Retention

The logic of customer lifetime value applies to paid search agencies, too.

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RKG Approved for Preferred AdWords API Pricing

As of Aug 1, 2010.

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Seller Rating Extensions: What’s Your Rating?

We’ve previously discussed the benefits of Sitelinks, Product Extensions, and the various pros and cons of those offerings. It’s been a month since AdWords Seller Rating Extensions went live, but is the extension helping or hurting you?

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More is Often Less

Be careful not to make room for dessert by jettisoning the main course.

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The Trada Model: Crowd-sourcing paid search?

Trada provides a crowd sourcing solution for paid search…but will it work?

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Google Changes Top Ranked Ads Format – Welcome Purple!

Out with the pale yellow, and in with the pale purple!?!

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Webinar: Google Shopping and Google AdWords Together at Last

On Tuesday, July 20, 2010 at 11:00am RKG will be hosting a webinar with SingleFeed about getting the most value out of your Google Shopping and Google Adwords programs.

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Broad Match Modifiers are Here!

Broad Match Modifiers are active for the US! Wooooo Hooooo!!!!

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Another Free Tool to Cluster PPC Phrases Into Related AdGroups – RKG Duck

Today, we would like to introduce the RKG RegExp Duck Filter as an alternative method for creating and organizing AdGroups, using the words within the phrases themselves.

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Auction Stuffing?

Does the auction work the way Google says it does? Maybe, but maybe not.

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Misinformation and Disinformation

George rants about myths and the people who propagate them.

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The Cost of Cannibalism

“Revenue sharing,” “commissioned sales,” “cost per action,” all sound like attractive, safe pricing models for marketing programs. But cannibalism can turn the economics of these “safe” programs south in a hurry.

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“Advanced Statistics” and other Meaningless Drivel

Your models involve “advanced statistics”. That’s cool. Are they any good?

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A Very Great Honor

I’m who, apparently.

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SERPs are getting crowded: Is there a Better User Experience?

Would a simple change to search engine UIs produce a better experience for everyone?

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Efficiency Targets: Don’t Short-Change Your Marketing

The incremental marketing efficiency can be far more aggressive than the average. Here’s why

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Hiring Top-Notch Paid Search Analysts

We have the finest analysts and highest analyst retention rates in the industry according to many representatives from the search engines. How did we get them?

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Advanced Strategies to Acquire Accurate Email Addresses Webinar

On June 17, 2010 RKG’s Director of Marketing, Cady Condyles, and Austin Bliss, President and Co-Founder of FreshAddress, will be hosting a webinar discussing Advanced Strategies to Acquire Accurate Email Addresses.

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iPad Users Shopping Like Traditional Computer Users

The iPad launched just a little over two months ago with Steve Jobs heralding the device as a new “third category” between laptop computers and smartphones. Our data suggests iPad users behave much more like traditional desktop and laptop users than mobile users when it comes to online shopping.

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  • George Michie: Thanks Adam, and your point is well taken. It is certainly worth pointing out that when the pendulum swings back to the middle the...
  • Adam Audette: Brilliant post, George. There’s something to be said for the ‘middle way’ to be sure, for dedication to what works...
  • George Michie: Billy, I’ve been predicting the death of Twitter for a long time. I try to keep those predictions to myself though, because I...
  • George Michie: Use the force, Luke, use the force! :-)
  • Siddharth Shah: Hi George, The paper chose books for a few reasons. This is what they say in the paper ” By focusing on books, we study a...
  • George Michie: Chad, thanks for the observations! Sid, the paper sounds interesting. I only read the abstract, but I wonder if they studied type of...
  • billy wolt: Hi George, this is the reason i have avoided twitter….the mob will move away soon. drop me an email, i want to pick your brain...
  • Siddharth Shah: Hi George, Your comment on retail reminded me of this paper I read a few months ago that investigated the online to offline...
  • Chad Summerhill: Hi George, sometime in my early 20’s I decided that if the mob was following something or doing something that I would be...
  • Chad Summerhill: No worries, I wouldn’t tell me either. But I’ve never been shy about asking smart people questions–has made a...
  • George Michie: Thanks Chad, I’ll answer these questions gladly…as soon as you come to work for us! :-) No question that the historical...
  • Chad Summerhill: Great post! Looks like I’ve got some work to do. Willing to share more about your bid-management predictive analytics?...
  • Chad Summerhill: Hi George, I would be honored. I’ll email you soon and we can talk about the details of the article. Thanks!
  • George Michie: Hi Chad, thanks for the link! If you’re willing to share the details I’d be delighted to do a feature at RKG Blog.
  • Chad Summerhill: Since I mentioned our in-house web analytics data warehouse earlier in the comments, I thought I would include a link to my new...

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