


How to Use Ad Extensions to Improve PPC Campaigns
You may believe it or not but the pay per click ads have already captured majority of the properties found in the results pages of search engines. If you are in doubt about this, then spend a minute to do a search in Google for something that you wish to purchase over...
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...
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...
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...
Why Affiliate Marketers are The BEST Marketers
Hopefully just by reading the blog post title, it got your attention! It may seem like a bit of a bold statement and I’m sure many of you disagree with this statement. However let me try to explain my point of why I think affiliate marketers are the best...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...
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...
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...Live From SMX Seattle: Closing The Loop: Are You Tracking Every Lead?
Moderator: Chris Sherman, Executive Editor of Search Engine Land Speakers: Adam Goldberg, Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of ClearSaleing Alissa Ruehl, Manager of Paid Search Services at Apogee Search John Tawadros, COO of iProspect Lauren Vaccarello, Director...
Back to the Basics: Getting Started with Keyword Research
Keyword Research is the foundation for any good search marketing campaign. Whether you are running a PPC campaign or optimizing your site for search engines, keyword research can make or break your search efforts. If you try to rank for keywords that are too broad you...
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 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....
Why Are Infographics Such Great Link Bait?
Infographics tend to be extremely viral content that spread rapidly throughout various social networks and the blogosphere. Some recent examples of viral Infographics are By the Numbers: Facebook vs The United States, The Current State of Twitter, and Google Facts...
When To Implement a Bid Management Tool
If you are managing pay per click campaigns, both on an agency level or as an in-house marketer, you are constantly trying to figure out the best way to maximize your ad spend. Depending on what type of budget you are working with, you may be spending a few minutes a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Creating Content of Substance vs Blah! Blah! Blah!
Recently I have been speaking to a few companies about content development. During our discussions a lot of questions were asked around the type of content that should be produced. What I explained to them were that are different types of content and strategies...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Download Now: 6 Free eBooks to Make Money Online
Over the past 6 months I have been interested in learning more about affiliate marketing and making money online. So I started reading a number of awesome blogs that are dedicated to exact that. I am paid for a number of eBooks, some good, some bad…but I have...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Want More Subscribers? Facebook Optin App Lets You Create Invisible Squeeze Pages
What is one of the biggest challenges with trying to build a list? … trying to get them to enter their personal contact info. Most people are very guarded when it comes to giving their name and email address away, mainly out of fear of being spammed. So how...
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...
3 Key Steps to Starting an A/B Test
Ever wondered if your site would generate more sales/leads with a larger call to action (CTA)? Perhaps reducing the amount of text and using bullet lists instead? Even the experts will tell you “It depends…”, but with 3 easy steps you can let your...
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...
Google Adwords Automated Rules – Say Goodbye to PPC Bid Management Tools
Over the last few weeks, Google has rolled out a feature I have been waiting for FOREVER. For anyone that manages PPC campaigns with Google Adwords, you know that its annoying if you are trying to manage a monthly budget for a client. The reason being is that...
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...
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...
Understanding the PPC Advertising Editorial Guidelines
If you are just starting out with doing some paid search campaigns, it can be very frustrating when you keep seeing your ads get disapproved. That is why it is important to learn each of the advertising editorial guidelines, so you reduce the chance of getting your...
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...![Making Money Online with SEO [Webinar Replay]](https://www.stayonsearch.com/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/70_webinar_replay1.jpg)
Making Money Online with SEO [Webinar Replay]
Hey guys, I wanted to give everyone who missed the webinar a few weeks back, a chance to watch the replay. Daniel Lew and I discuss a number of different tactics and strategies for turning your SEO efforts into dollars. We went for almost two hours, so there is a lot...
Third Tribe Marketing Review
The Third Tribe is a private membership community offering to help business owners and entrepreneurs the chance to learn how to make money online through online marketing without becoming one of those “obnoxious” Internet marketing types. Who’s...
Online Marketing Crossing The Conventional Conception of SEO
The connotations associated with the word online marketing include the processes of SEO and PPC. To most of the businesses in the market, the online marketing is either search engine optimization or Pay per click. Businesses are either oblivious of the rest of online...
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.

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....
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...
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...
Not Active in Internet Marketing Forums? Then You Are Missing Out!
No matter if you are new to Internet Marketing or have been in the industry for years, Internet Marketing forums are extremely useful. Depending on your specific goals, you can engage with a targeted audience that can help drive traffic, improve lead generation, and...
What Makes a Dynamic Internet Marketer?
What does it mean to be a dynamic marketer? To me, a dynamic marketer has a balanced, long-term marketing approach that involves all aspects of Internet Marketing. They need to be able to adapt, move fast, be willing to fail, and understand what their target market...
What Will the Internet Be Like in 2025
It’s amazing how fast the Internet is moving! I remember like it was yesterday when I had to use my obnoxiously loud 56k modem to dial into America Online. A welcome message would popup that gave me access to my email, “Channels” and buddy list. ...