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...
Time, tide and now search engines wait for no man. A few years ago the notion of online branding was still alien to many. Sure, you’d secure your domain and talk about how great you are on every page of the site, but optimisation would revolve primarily around...
If you think Internet Marketers are just people who add “keywords” into a website for “search engines” to see, there is nothing further from the truth. Internet Marketing as a whole, involves a wide range of skills that can take years or even...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
Moderator: Jeffrey Rohrs, VP of Marketing at ExactTarget Speakers: Andrew Beckman, President of Location3 Media Dave Davies, CEO of Beanstalk Search Engine Positioning Russ Mann, CEO of Covario Jon Miller, VP of Marketing at Marketo This was a back and forth...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
What comes to your mind when you see, hear or read about photo books? The truth is we all tend to picture some personal mementos like books for weddings, birthday and other personal events. These are, of course, among the major matches for a photo book, but they are...
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....
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...