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Date Archive: June 2009

Bing: The Art of Buying Share

It’s hard to buy loyalty.

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Ticking Timebombs in your PPC Program?

Could inadvertent trademark violations cost your company?

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Bing Shopping & PPC Ads

A look at how Bing Shopping (formerly MSN Shopping) integrates with paid search advertising.

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Quality Score: the Hype and the Reality

Hacking through the mythology surrounding Google’s Quality Score.

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AdWords $20 Million Class Action Payout

Find Out if the Settlement Applies to You.

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Bing: A Closer Look at the Numbers

A more careful study yields a different perspective.

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Bing: Bang or Bust? Some PPC Data

Bing hasn’t stolen much traffic yet, but the traffic it has taken seems to be high quality and the source may surprise people.

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You Can’t Hunt What You Can’t See

How your PPC efforts are tracked can have a significant impact on the program’s performance. Javascript-based tracking systems used by most web analytics systems typically lose 10 - 30% of the sales driven by paid search. Find out why and how to plug this hole.

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PPC Client Services: Waiters or Doctors?

Is the customer always right? It depends on the service.

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Recovery afoot? PPC Benchmarks

The May data is in, and while one month does not a trend make, we certainly like what we see.

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  • Lance: George - Thanks so much for the interview and the kind words. Jake - We have seen the gains from our tests hold up. But I am sensitive to...
  • Andrew@BloggingGuide: I liked what he said: our approach is to never be satisfied, and always seek incremental improvement. This is absolutely true...
  • Jake Minturn: Great interview! One thing I am curious about, and I’d love to get Lance’s take on this, is if these boosts in conversion...
  • Bob: Would your call center stop answering sales calls because they’ve reached their budgeted labor for the month? This is considered...
  • David: Great post George, nice to see technology story telling alive. Kept me gripped and v interesting.
  • Rex Dixon: @George - That is too bad to hear. I don’t believe we have any PPC test results on our site currently.
  • George Michie: Ken, You’re absolutely right if the CR difference between A and B is small (2 or 3%) the odds of A running the table...
  • Ken Truman: Shay - I definitely think the same logic applies to day of week analysis. George - That’s an extremely interesting way of...
  • George Michie: Hi Laurence, We think folks spend far too much time worrying about mythical penalties. The account QS is dominated by the QS on your...
  • Laurence: Hi George, Thank you for the enlightening post. You’ve sold me on how important the long tail is so over the past few weeks...
  • Billy Wolt: take-away: Make sure you are bidding on your brand, broad topic, and specific model keywords :)
  • George Michie: Thanks for the kind words Lance and Bryan. Andy, I feel your pain. I meant to include a section on why site exclusions didn’t...
  • Algernon: Yay for yahoo! Just in time for them to shut it all down and hand the keys to Microsoft. Sorry, as an advertiser who got hammered for...
  • Bryan: Excellent post, George! Now lets cross our fingers that the folks at Microsoft give us the ability to adjust bids by syndication partner...
  • Lance: Brilliant post, George. Here’s hoping things pan out this way and everyone wins.

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