Understanding the Different Types of Content Creation
A few weeks ago I got an email from a reader asking me about content creation specific to all the different types of content for the web. Since that is more of an involved question than replying with a simple e-mail, I told him that I would answer his question in an...
Your Internet Marketing Strategy: Less Talking and More Doing
I want to make a pretty bold statement (semi rant) to start this blog post…“Your Strategy is Only As Good As Your Execution!”. Too many times I have seen great concepts and strategies never materialize because the project was just in theory and...
Managing Agency and Client Responsibilities
Recently I wrote a post on how much knowledge a client should have, but along with knowledge also comes responsibility. For any internet marketing agency to work well with their clients, there must be a mutual understanding of the overall strategy, and most...
6 Types of Training for Internet Marketers
Continuing education for an internet marketer is a must! The industry is always changing and evolving, so it is important to have a system in place that allows for you stay up-to-date with what’s going on in the industry. There are lots of different ways that...
How to Use Email to Reach Out to an Existing Customer Base
When it comes to promoting or growing your business online, mailing lists and email campaigns offer massive benefits. However, many business owners overlook one of the most powerful ways to utilize these tools. While building your mailing lists and capturing customer...
Investing Your Internet Marketing Dollars Wisely
Like any company, you have a budget. So how do you know if you are putting your internet marketing dollars to good use? Unfortunately there is no secret formulate to follow that tells you what percentage of your budget you should be spending on each marketing...
InBundles: The Newest Place For Daily Deals
By now, probably everyone has heard of Groupon and LivingSocial, and now a new service called InBundles joins the party for offering daily deals and specials specific to a certain city. Currently, InBundles caters to only people who are looking for discounts on local...
Creative Online Brand Research: Using eBay as a Niche Marketing Tool
While the Internet has been busy getting its groove on EBay, the first real online auction site, has been quietly working away without Meg Whitman. Whether you are looking for Prada shoes of LED HDMI cables, EBay is a one stop-shopping extravaganza. The really...
Wordstream’s Quality Score Management Tools Go Live
For any Google Adwords advertiser, you know that having a great Quality Score is the key to running effective, low cost ad campaigns. However many advertisers are always wondering how they can improve on their QS. Well now, Wordstream has made it much easier, with...
5 Reasons Your PPC Campaigns Are Not Performing
With pay-per-click advertising becoming more and more expensive, it is important to understand how to make sure your campaigns perform to their full potential. There could be a number of things you are doing that are prohibiting the performance of your campaigns....
Who You Are, Not Who You Know, Matters in Social Networks
If you’re doing business in today’s market, you know how small the world of business is getting. You can join hundreds of new sites, get new tools and, most importantly, build a community that works for you. These communities will bring you new business. Here are a...
Making the Most Out of Google Places
Recently I have been very impressed with the new Google Places aka Local Business Center. They have been continuing to add new features to your Local Business Listing that allow you really make the listing a viable marketing tool. As you probably have noticed,...
LIVE Webinar Tonight at 9pm EST – Two 7-Figure Info Marketers Spill Their EXACT Blueprint
StayOnSearch Readers….I wanted to tell you about a little TREAT I have in store for all of you! At 9pm EST, I will be hosting a webinar with two of the most respected Informational Marketers in the industry. This content-packed webinar is going to be chalked...
Tips for B2B Search Engine Marketing
Today, strong search engine marketing strategies are a survival necessity for any business, be it a small or big show. Even using this as just a general rule, the fact remains that B2B (business-to-business) marketers will have to think and act slightly different from...
Google’s Ad Rank EcoSystem: How Does It Work?
In my last post, I discussed how to create a Google AdWords campaign. Before purchasing keywords on Google AdWords, you may be curious to know how Google in fact ranks advertisements. Have you ever wondered how Google ranks advertisements when you perform a search on...
4 Tips on Running an International PPC Campaign
Running an international PPC campaign will have its challenges beyond the obstacles that you may run into when running a PPC campaign in just English. The importance of understanding the markets and customers outside of the US are only going to further help you see a...
5 Brilliantly Simple Ways to Keep Your Newsletter Away from the Spam Folders
We all hate spam but some guys and gals are making a living out of sending emails of the legitimate variety. Even if you don’t belong to this group because you send newsletters only occasionally, the tips in this article will be of great use to you. 1. Never...
Five Ways to Quickly Increase Email Response Rates
A higher percentage of people go online just for sake of checking their emails. And there’s no doubt that email marketing can prove to be an extremely powerful tool for reaching out to new customers. However, the success of an email marketing campaign depends on the...
Professional Marketing Organizations to Think About Joining
If you are a search marketer, you may want to think about joining a few of these professional organizations. They can provide some good exposure in the industry, as well as help get authoritative links into your site. Here is a quick list of places to look into....
Is Pay-Per-Click Advertising Old School Marketing Already?
When you think of old school marketing, you think of print, television, billboards, and radio….but pay-per-click? Now pay-per-click is not necessarily old school marketing in the sense that you are shouting your message out to everyone and anyone that will...
AdWords Bid Management: How to Lower Minimum Bid Costs
The day has come to take your website live! You researched the market, spent money on designing a killer website specifically for your industry, and are ready to jump in with both feet. The excitement grows steadily until you decide to sign up for Google AdWords, and...
How I Found More Internet Marketing Jobs – Free Resource Inside
Are you an Internet Marketing company looking for new clients? Are you an Internet Marketing freelancer or consultant looking for new clients or agencies to partner with? Are you an Internet Marketer looking for full-time employment? If you are one of these people,...
5 Tones to Take in Ad Copy to Shake Things Up
CTR is flagging, conversion are lagging and you’re in a funk. So what do to wake up your ad groups? Take one of these 5 tones for a test drive! Get your creative juices flowing, get the wheels turning and hey- you might even have some fun while you’re at...
Top 5 Facebook Advertising Tips
Facebook is becoming an outstanding traffic generation strategy to drive massive amounts of traffic for extremely low CPC or CPM. I would not say that I am an expert in Facebook Ads, but I have run a number of campaigns and have gone through a number of FB Ad...SEM vs SEO: Short-Term vs Long-Term
For clients, it can be hard to see the big picture when it comes to an effective internet marketing strategy. Their initial response is similar to “I need to get traffic to my site immediately. How can I get results today?”. The mentality is always now,...
Introducing the New Google Adwords Certification Program
Google has made some changes by officially retiring the Google Advertising Professionals program and changing it to the Google Adwords Certification Program. The new program provides agencies with comprehensive, strategy-focused training and certification on the...
15 Websites to Find Excellent Internet Marketing Whitepapers
Whitepapers have been a great marketing tool for gaining industry credibility, relevant leads, and more traffic to your website. Even though there are probably thousands of Internet Marketing Whitepapers out there, there are a select bunch that are know for creating industry-recognized, high-quality whitepapers.
Making the Most Out of Your YouTube Channel
I wanted to thank everyone who submitted their feedback on other “Making the Most Out of…” posts we should write about. Using your suggestions, I got a number of people requesting a post on how to better utilize your YouTube channel, so that’s...![My Thoughts on the Newest Google Algorithm Update [w/ Results]](https://www.stayonsearch.com/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/google-algorithm.png)
My Thoughts on the Newest Google Algorithm Update [w/ Results]
On Friday, Google officially announced an algorithm change that is one to pay attention to. Typically when Google updates their algorithm, it is something so minor that you wouldn’t really notice a huge increase/decrease in your traffic and organic rankings. ...
Skills that Companies that Employ SEO’s are Looking For
There are a lot of different companies out there that are taking on full time SEO’s (people skilled in the SEO biz) and handing them enormous paychecks. As you can see from this infographic, there are a lot of SEO jobs out there, and a lot of them are paying...
The Differences Between Offline and Online PR
Public Relations is all about creating buzz and/or exposure around a brand or company to a target audience, through various offline and online engagements. However an offline and online PR marketing campaign have many differences that are important to understand....
Formulating an Internet Marketing Strategy: Asking the Right Questions?
It doesn’t matter if you are building a new website, conducting search engine optimization, PPC advertising, or a social media strategy, there are always going to be important questions that need to be answered by the client. Having detailed answers to these...
Opt-In Placement for Maximizing Subscribers
You have probably noticed that many bloggers are adding opt-in forms throughout their entire blog to help increase subscribers. Gaining new RSS and E-mail subscribers to your blog allows you to not have to depend on Google or other traffic sources to get your readers...
How to Use PPC to Complement SEO
Recently I wrote a blog post on How SEO and Social Media Are Joining Forces, so I thought it would be beneficial to show how PPC can help to compliment SEO. Now that Pay-Per-Click (at least in Google) is becoming so saturated with advertisers, compared to 5-7 years...
The First 5 Things You Should Do in a New PPC Campaign
In Google AdWords, whenever you start a new campaign, there are a myriad of options available at the campaign level ranging from networks, bidding, budgets, ad serving, dates, times, location, language, experiments, ad position and devices to name a few. But what are...
List Eruption Launch Week: List Building Essentials – Tip #1
I am extremely excited for next week, as it marks the date of my first REAL product launch. As many of you know, I have been working on a WordPress plugin called List Eruption that I anticipate will make a huge impact on the industry. This WordPress plugin has been...
How Do I Know My Web Content is Good Enough?
I love when readers, clients and social media connections ask questions; the answers make great fuel for articles, so please keep them coming! Recently, a reader asked, “How do I know my web content is good enough or SEO’d well?” Thus, the topic of today’s blog. So...
Using Web 2.0 & Social Media To Improve Customer Service
With all of the new communication tools and technology being introduced, the way that companies handle customer service has been transformed into a more effective and efficient manner. Users want to be able to receive real-time support and have multiple options to...
Top 10 Forums to Engage with Internet Marketers and Web Professionals
Forums can be a great way to communicate with industry experts, gather feedback, position yourself as an industry leader and drive relevant traffic to your site. The first step to marketing via forums is to find the right forums, where people are discussing your...
What to Do If You Have Been Taken Advantage of By a SEM Company
No matter what the industry, the bad apples often get more publicity than the folks that do business by the book which can give any industry a bad name. The search engine marketing industry is no different. Over my 11 years in the business, I have encountered...
Four Search Marketing Strategies That Work
Search engine marketing is the art of promoting websites by increasing their visibility in search engines using SEO techniques, PPC, contextual advertising and more. What makes search marketing different is the fact that you do not search for customers. They search...
The Increasingly Popular Internet Marketing Degree: What do you Learn?
More than a billion and half people use the Internet, and this has created plenty of opportunities for savvy Internet marketers. There will be a growing need for Internet marketing specialists as more businesses seek to create an Internet presence. One way to acquire...
Panda and the New Google
Google is a great example of how powerful the Internet really is. With more users than all the other search engines combined, and by a crazy wide margin, Google is a powerhouse the likes of which the business community hasn’t seen for a long while. No More...
Is Google Places Revolutionizing Organic Search for Local Businesses?
In 2011, in a world where online media dominates our culture, most business owners are aware of the impact that Google and other search engines have on their ability to attract customers. Through search engine optimization, search engine marketing and more,...
Online Event Marketing: 6 Ways to Market Your Next Event Online
There are plenty of free event services out there on the web that you can use to create, manage, promote, and track local events. Here are a bunch of free services that will help you market your next event online. Eventful http://eventful.com/ Eventful will allow you...
Ultimate Roundup of Advertising Networks
PPC, PPV, Banner Ads, Media Buys, Text Link Ads, Video Sponsored Ads, Mobile Ads….the list goes on and on. I thought I would compile a HUGE list of all of the different advertising networks that are out there. Feel free to help ad to the list and leave a...
How To Start A Google AdWords Campaign
Are you new to Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising? Have you determined that PPC Advertising may be profitable for your business? This post is for those who are new to PPC Advertising and would like to get off to a fast start buying keywords on Google! Here are some steps...
What You Can Learn from Google Instant Search
Google has just rolled out the new Google Instant search results. Now, all you have to do is type in one letter and you will start to get results instantly, without even hitting the Search button or enter key. Some interesting tidbits about the new search system...