Your Search Ad Landing Page is More Important than Ever!

It’s not enough anymore to use dynamic keyword insertion to mirror consumer search queries in ad copy and then direct them to a high-level category page within your site. Google’s landing page preview tool will show consumers that your selected product page does not offer them exactly what they are looking for and they will choose another online retailer to purchase from. Continue reading

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Make Your Retargeting More Effective with Intent

Retargeting is naturally a great way to get a performance lift for your campaigns, but it is not without advertising operations pitfalls: campaigns across search, site, and display should be integrated by consumer intent to create the most relevant, unified brand and advertising experience for the target audience. This can ensure advertising lift from search and site retargeting, and increase conversion rates. Continue reading

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Is your ad group structure a house of cards?

An ad group structure how-to for SEMs – check out the article on SearchEngineWatch.com Continue reading

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Google Search Previews: Bad for SEM? Good for consumers? And what about Google?

The ramifications of Google search previews – bad for SEM? Good for consumers? Continue reading

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Managing the Conversion Funnel: Step 3, The Myth of the One Best Landing Page

How do you then construct, and optimize, the single best-converting landing page for your campaign? The answer is: you don’t. Continue reading

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Managing the Conversion Funnel: Step 2, Dissonance is the Enemy of Clickthrough

I did a search for “cable and internet packages.” On page one of the results, the sponsored links offered me: A major provider’s “official site”[...] Continue reading

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