SES NY Roundup – Learnings from Our Retail Roundtables

Retailers face many challenges when trying to create effective paid search marketing campaigns. Our team at Adchemy talked with retailers at SES NY about their challenges in SEM and how they can overcome them. Continue reading

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What to Consider when Considering Google Conversion Optimizer

Considering dabbling in Google Conversion Optimizer (GCO)? You’ll need to rethink your Ad Words playbook, add a couple plays, and pay a lot more attention to what happens site-side. Continue reading

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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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Why You Can, and Should Invest More in Search

To generate more profits from your search campaign you need to unlock more keywords for more products in such a way that they are profitable. Continue reading

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The Challenges of Ad Grouping while Mining the Long Tail

Mismanaging ad groups can result in too few or too many keywords per group, hurting relevancy and, ultimately, ROI. Continue reading

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Retail SEM Pitfalls: Relying Solely on Broad Match

Even with superior skills, experience and a deep understanding of best practices, search engine marketers can be humbled by time, budget and complexity challenges. Continue reading

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Online Advertising Needs a New Abstraction Layer

The advantage of an intent-based abstraction layer for online advertisers: reduce complexity, increase relevance. Continue reading

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Mining the Long Tail: Is It Worth the Effort?

It’s no surprise that a lot of SEMs decide that it’s simply not worth the extra effort to chase long-tail keywords. In a manual world this is the correct decision – it’s NOT worth the effort to chase the long tail. But what if you had a technology that allowed you to massively scale your keyword portfolio while decreasing management complexity and overhead? 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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Don’t Sweat What You Can’t Control

Don’t sweat what you can’t control – dealing (or NOT dealing) with the shifting sands of Google quality score rules Continue reading

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