Using search engine marketing on Google, Yahoo and MSN is becoming more common and should be a key ingredient in most marketer’s online marketing plans for the forthcoming years. One innovative feature is the ability to geo-target and choose in what geographic locations and to what language groups you want to show your ads. The [...]
Sometimes working with multilingual search engine marketing can be tricky…Mother Tongue has this to say on the complexities of writing ads and copy in another language: “Accents pose a constant problem for search engine optimization in many countries. Because they cannot be used in domain names or email addresses there is a temptation to search [...]
Search engines continue to be the primary way Internet users navigate to key sites online. US February data from Hitwise shows that Google has increased their US market share by 8% (72% uses Google) causing Yahoo and MSN to loose 17% and 20% of their share of US visitor searches. What’s interesting is that the [...]
Joe Kutchera from ContextWeb wrote a good summary of search marketing techniques for targeting US Hispanics over at MediaPost. While the article deals with US Hispanics, the thinking behind the different techniques is easily adapted to other target groups as well. Geo-targeting, in language-specific PPC campaigns and behavioral targeting are all effective ways of reaching [...]
The Iranian New Year celebration, Norooz (Noruz, Nowruz) is coming up on the 20th of March and with that a lot of festivities and opportunities for companies to market products at people from West, Central and South Asia that are spread out across the globe. Doing a quick search on keyword searches for the various [...]
One effect of the last years trend to initiate PPC-campaigns is that the auction-based system can cause your online ad spending budget and cost-per-lead (CPL) to increase due to the bidding process. Meaning, if the keywords you are bidding on face heavy competition and many competitors are bidding on them, the bid price will go [...]
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