Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Cost per click (CPC).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. Cost per click (CPC).

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2012

In this post I want to share with you three insightful custom reports for effective paid search (PPC) analysis. My latest video was on how to find meaningful insights, faster, when performing paid search analysis with web analytics tools (rather than, say, the AdWords or Bing UI). Criminal behavior.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2014

Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized. You probably already know that search engines index sites based on the quality of content (and links). The more content on your site, the more attractive your site becomes for search engines (more about search engine optimization in tip 9 below).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 12, 2013

Are you wasting your money on paid search? Paid search marketing is the paid use of search engines (such as Google or Bing) to promote your product or service. Some people also refer to paid search marketing as SEM (search engine marketing).

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

Marketers can take advantage of various digital channels, including but not limited to search engines, email, social media, and web applications. PPC advertising. The elements that constitute a cohesive digital marketing strategy are mobile marketing, organic search, content marketing, social media marketing, and email marketing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

A strong web design can help a restaurant to more effectively market itself, can help convert visitors who find the restaurant by searching, for example, on Yelp, shopping for a deal through Groupon, or searching on Google or Bing. And it doesn’t help you much in search engine optimization. Consider Performance.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 22, 2022

Before we get into the specifics of sure-fire new business initiatives, keep in mind that you will need to test, trial, and deploy several sorts of campaigns on a consistent basis. Online advertising includes Google Adwords, also known as pay-per-click (PPC), native advertising, display advertising, and banner advertising.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized. You probably already know that search engines index sites based on the quality of content (and links). The more content on your site, the more attractive your site becomes for search engines (more about search engine optimization in tip 9 below).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized. You probably already know that search engines index sites based on the quality of content (and links). The more content on your site, the more attractive your site becomes for search engines (more about search engine optimization in tip 9 below).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized. You probably already know that search engines index sites based on the quality of content (and links). The more content on your site, the more attractive your site becomes for search engines (more about search engine optimization in tip 9 below).

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Start an AdWords campaign. Adword is a PPC method to promote your website.

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searchengineland.com

MAY 30, 2012

Search Week Newsletter. Search Month Newsletter. B2B Search Marketing. Enterprise SEM. In House Search Marketing. Local Search. Mobile Search. Multinational Search. Paid Search. Search & Analytics. Search & Analytics. Search & Conversion. SEM Columns.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Search marketing. Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. The search network involves pay-per-click advertising (or Paid Search). Cost: Free.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Search marketing. Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. The search network involves pay-per-click advertising (or Paid Search). Cost: Free.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When WordStream began receiving complaints that the seven-day free trial of their PPC management software wasn’t long enough, the brand decided to A/B test 14-day and 30-day trials. Yet, this was a successful growth marketing campaign. If your campaign works and your brand awareness metrics improve, you win. The results?

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

Source attributes : where do people come from (websites, campaigns, search engines etc etc). Remember this is not just a problem for web analytics but also for search engine Robots / Spiders. A final example of using redirects is as a part of campaigns (banner ads, search marketing, affiliates etc). 9-4f8TLjxABMw.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Mailchimp , Constant Contact , JangoMail and the like make it easy to create and manage email campaigns and special Thank You’s can be sent using any of these or other services. An added advantage of using email campaigns to say thanks is the data you’ll receive in return. purchase whether that takes place on-line or off.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Mobile Marketing and Analytics: Click-to-Call Mobile Ad Campaigns. Multichannel Analytics- Tracking Online Impact Of Offline Campaigns. Paid Search Analytics: Measuring Value of "Upper Funnel" Keywords. PPC / SEM Analytics: 5 Actionable Tips To Improve ROI. Are You Into Internal Site Search Analysis?

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A Crowded Space

JULY 25, 2011

I thought getting my first 25 customers for QwikTalk would be pretty easy - just launch a few PPC campaigns on Google Adwords and everything should be fine, right? Here’s how the past month has gone: Week 1 - Campaign Setup I launch a couple Adwords campaigns for each of my initial launch categories, SEO, SEM, Excel.

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A Crowded Space

JULY 25, 2011

I thought getting my first 25 customers for QwikTalk would be pretty easy - just launch a few PPC campaigns on Google Adwords and everything should be fine, right? Here's how the past month has gone: Week 1 - Campaign Setup I launch a couple Adwords campaigns for each of my initial launch categories, SEO, SEM, Excel.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 10, 2010

With that pre-amble, let me describe the story of Trada – a company that helps businesses more effectively manage their search marketing campaigns via its marketplace through which paid search experts work collaboratively and competitively to maximize the effectiveness of Trada customers search marketing campaigns.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

We tend to be far too obsessed about Search Engines and Twitter and the Next Shiny Object. Paid media (PPC, Display etc), Earned media(Social Media), and Free media (SEO, Referring Sites etc). Organic and paid search, direct traffic , Twitter and Facebook, Facebook display ads, email marketing, top referring sites etc etc.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2016

AdEspresso – The easiest online tool to manage and optimize your Facebook Advertising Campaigns. Marin Software – Optimize your Search, Social & Display ads across channels and devices. WordStream – Service that manages PPC campaigns, but great info too. The ad service is largely focused on keywords.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

There is perhaps no challenge greater than tracking offline impact of your online presence (campaigns or other activity). Your hair is thinning from repeatedly trying to get funding for online campaigns. It is perhaps one of the last few complex nuts left to crack. Because it is hard. Not impossible. that took ten seconds.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 28, 2006

Segmentation examples would include: By “campaigns” (this would include PPC, Pay Per Click, / SEM, Search Engine Marketing, and direct marketing and other campaigns you run). This can be great source of actionable insights. It is amazing how many websites don’t do this simple thing well.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 6, 2009

The Search Based Keyword Tool (SbKT) was that for me. I can tell you know that you'll never think of Paid Search the same way! UPDATE: Recently Google has folded the Search Based Keyword Tool into the core AdWords Interface. One of the most common phenomenon is the long tail of search. Astonishing is that not?

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 6, 2007

In your web analytics tool simply go to the Referring URL's / Sites report and take a look, you'll find something like this…… For this site Google Analytics illustrates that both myspace.com and simplyhired.com is not sending great traffic, while their direct marketing campaigns (#2 and #3 above) seem to be doing much better.

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