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Date Archive: November 2007

How Not To Use Pay-Per-Click To Find A Job

This was a new one for me: a job seeker running AdWords against a brand name to try get an interview. Ack!

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Median CyberMonday Sales Up 32% (and other 11 benchmarks): Compare Your Results By Category

How did we do compared to everybody else? The perennial question is a hard one to answer. Perhaps these benchmarks will help.

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When “Statistically Significant” Isn’t

Direct marketing testing is both art and science. Here are three situations where “statistically significant” results might not have business significance.

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Starting from Scratch: A Paid Search Primer

How do you get started marketing your products via paid search? Here are a few high-level strategies to keep in mind when launching a PPC program from scratch.

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9 Tips For Effective Political Paid Search Advertising

Running paid search for a political campaign? Here’s our list of best practices for using PPC advertising.

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Vat19: Online Retailing via SKU-level videos

VAT19 offers a specific video for (almost) every product they sell. This SKU-level-video web presentation will become increasing common in many retail categories.

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PPC Outsource or In-House? Rules of thumb

A while back I blogged on the in-source versus outsource decision with SEM. Today, I want to go into a bit more depth on what those choices mean.

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Paid Search And the 2008 Election

A list of bloggers covering search and the 2008 Presidential campaign.

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Paid Search Trends, 2006 vs. 2007 YTD

Linking to a post today I wrote over at Search Engine Land on year-to-date trends in PPC.

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Voters Are Searching But Campaigns Aren’t Advertising: Analyzing PPC Results for 50,000+ Google & Yahoo Political Searches

Voters are searching but candidates aren’t advertising: announcing the Search and Politics 2008 study.

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Internal Blogs: Less Email, Blogging Training Wheels, Link-sharing, BizCulture

We run an internal blog where all employees can post, and it is working well for us.

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Congrats, Eddie and Judy!

Congrats, Eddie and Judy. May you enjoy many years of health and happiness together.

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Credit Card Test Numbers

Helpful info from PayPal: fake credit card numbers with valid checksums, good for test orders.

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“Increase AdWords Conversions 300%!” Errr, really?

When testing, keep an eye on statistical significance.

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How Google’s OpenSocial Can Help Your E-commerce Site’s Design

Whether your next release is a nifty widget or a workmanlike Holiday Gifts page you’ll probably want to take a look at Google’s Best Practices for Social Design.

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Google: Phones, Friends, and Feeds

Three Google news items of note: Open Handset, Open Social, and Reader share.

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October 2007 PPC Ad Spend: Google Jumps, Yahoo Slumps, Microsoft Steady

In October, across our clients, Google picked up 3 points of ad spend share, reaching 79% share. Google’s gain came at Yahoo’s expense: Yahoo’s share fell from 19% in September to 16% in October. Microsoft held steady in distant third, maintaining a 5% share.

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