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It’s not a Bug it’s a Feature

An update on what we thought was a bug.

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Interview with Lance Loveday

My interview with Lance Loveday of Closed-Loop Marketing

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Yah Hoo for Yahoo!

Yahoo’s new syndication bidding controls should be a big win for everyone!

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Interview with Linda Bustos of Elastic Path

Linda is one of the smartest people in online marketing.

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Maximizing ROI: The Wrong Game

How could something that sounds so good, be so wrong-headed?

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Bing Surges: Google buys TV ads

Bing came out of the gates hard in 2010!

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SMN Webinar Feb 18th

Search Marketing Now webinar on the Long Tail.

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Shopper Profiles and Conversion Rates Part II

Search shopper personas anyone?

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Shopper Profiles and Conversion Rates Part I

If not a buying cycle, what is going on?

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Credit Attribution Survey

Multichannel attribution is tricky. How are you handling it?

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Evaluating a Paid Search Program

A layered approach to assessing paid search effectiveness. Now is the time to raise the bar.

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Broad Match is No Substitute for the Tail

Does broad match + negatives and lots of love and attention yield better results than a fully developed KW list with power tools and smart resource allocation? Not a chance, the opposite is the case.

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2009 Best of RKG Blog

A collection of our most enduring posts from 2009

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December Paid Search Benchmarks

December growth rates were okay, but the downward trend from October is puzzling.

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How Low is Low?

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Affiliate cheats and SEO link spammers.

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How Important is the “Tail”? An Emperical Study

The long tail matters.

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Can Agencies be Rated?

The Forrester rankings are clearly meaningless. However, we couldn’t really rank our competitors either.

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PPC Landing Pages: Choose Wisely

Landing pages matter in paid search. Don’t let robots pick yours.

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Interview: SEO Expert Adam Audette

Interview with SEO Expert Adam Audette.

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Management and Micromanagement

Joel says micromanaging vendors is essential. I say, it depends.

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Top Marketer of 2009!

And the nominees are…

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The Marketing Mindset

Each marketing vehicle demands a different mindset from its practitioners.

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“Gifts for him” and other rat holes to avoid

Just because there’s traffic doesn’t mean you want to pay for it.

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Tale of the Tape: November Paid Search

The numbers are in, and show some intriguing trends.

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PPC: The Syndication Networks

The value of traffic from each network partner varies. Allowing advertisers to control what they pay for traffic from each would benefit the advertisers, the quality publishers, and the engines.

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  • Cory Grassell: What are your thoughts on stats that suggest consumers are more apt to click on organic search results than PPC results? As a...
  • George Michie: Kevin, Marc, thanks for your comments. Help is coming, but not the solution. There are a number of instances when the CTR on the...
  • Marc Adelman: George, You have been an advocate of “the advanced control option” for years now. Depressing right YEARS! Eh…listen...
  • Kevin Hill: Is what they really need is a fourth match type. Here’s google’s help documentation on broad match: This is the default...
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  • George Michie: If they keep hearing the same message, and seeing evidence in the data to back it up, something will have to give. There is hope on...
  • Tomas: I’ve been having the same argument with Google for months now and in the end there does seem to be a feature in the algorithm that...
  • George Michie: Doesn’t have to be, it can be intra-adgroup as well.
  • Josh: George – I take it you’re referencing a scenario where your exact-match keywords are not listed as negative exact match keywords...
  • George Michie: Melissa, you’re right, it’s always happened to varying degrees, particularly since the advent of extended broad match....

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