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Rational vs Irrational Behavior in PPC

Does it help you, or hurt you when your competitors behave irrationally?

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Tips for Managing the Multichannel Maze

Which advertising dollars drive sales, and which don’t? Direct mail drives web sales, web advertising drives phone and retail business, and within web, paid search drives email and vice versa. It’s increasingly difficult to see. We’ll gi

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PPC Bid Optimization Platforms: The Perils of Inflexibility & Extremism

As Joel experienced in the 58th St. Starbucks, going to extremes can lead to suboptimal outcomes.

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SEM Pricing Models

Our standard SEM pricing is 12.5% of adspend, with a monthly max cap of $12,500.

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Evaluating PPC Performance in a Down Economy

Is your PPC program hitting on all cylinders in this environment? The stakes are higher than ever.

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Discovering Untracked PPC Sales

What would your paid search program look like if it was missing 50% of the sales that it was generating? Would your alter your bidding?

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Broad Match Controls We Need

Following up last week’s post on a bug in Google’s Broad Match algorithm, this post details more controls we’d like to have while they’re under the hood.

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Use Online Testing to Increase Print Catalog Response Rates

This article assumes that insights gained from Web testing lead to effective print catalog presentations. That is our”Big Assumption”.

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Why Position Bidding Wastes Money

Happy with your position crawling bid system? Find out why it is undoubtedly leaving money on the table.

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The PPC Buying Cycle: Buyer Beware

The Buying Cycle is used by some as an excuse for overspending on general keywords. It’s a lovely theory, but we thought it was high time to take another look at whether the data supports it.

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  • 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...
  • Kevin Micalizzi, Dimdim Web Conferencing: Jim (& George)- We still offer a free version of Dimdim. Just click Sign Up Now at the top of the...
  • Tomas: indeed, i can’t talk about it either… :)
  • Philip Price: Thank you for the RegHack, it worked for me, tho at first when i made the reg file with the information i copied from above i also...
  • George Michie: Sorry Jim, this post was written in 2007. Apparently some of those products are gone.
  • Jim: Hey, I checked two products like dimdim and cutepdf but none is free. What are you talking about free and open source?
  • 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....
  • Mel66: I don’t think this is a bug. It’s been happening for years. It *is* impossible to manage, and I can’t help but wonder if...
  • George Michie: Thanks Matt, Sometimes humor serves a purpose.

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