Archive for March, 2009

Yahoo! announces new targeting options

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Yahoo! has just announced new ways to target particular users:

Demographic Targeting
Ad Scheduling
Enhanced ZIP-level geo-targeting

All of the big three search engines have been offering some version of geographic targeting for some time. Yahoo! finally added rich scheduling functionality, a lot like that offered by AdWords. Microsoft adCenter has offered demographic targeting for some time, and AdWords [...]

Ghost blogging

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Sometimes you want a blog but don’t have the time or expertise to write customer- and search-engine-friendly content. You know that all that up-to-date content improves your image and helps your search engine rankings. But who has time to come up with good, on-topic content several times a week?
We frequently are asked by prospective and [...]

Keywords as markets for SEO and PPC

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

This post was prompted by many discussions with clients in which we attempt to summarize SEO and PPC performance in practical, easily digestible forms. There is frequently a tendency for clients to oversimplify evaluations to “it works” or “it doesn’t” based upon summary data.
For SEO, we try to summarize performance in terms of increases in [...]