BizReport : Search Marketing

Search Marketing

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Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Ask Revamp Improves Search Tools

Search marketers on Ask.com have a few new tools to manage their paid search platforms, thanks to the launch of the revamped ASL 2.0 portal. >>

Monday, October 02, 2006

Search Scholarship Up For Grabs

Want to join the fastest growing online marketing industry? Think you’re part of the next generation of SEM experts? Find out with a scholarship from Marketing Pilgrim. >>

Friday, September 29, 2006

July Local Searches Up 43%

A new study out by comScore indicates that performing a search for a local business or service drives consumer action. In the study, nearly 50% of all local searchers visited a local merchant as the result of searching for their service. >>

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Reverse Targeting: Boost Conversions?

To date, most online targeting has been to sift through the millions of daily hits to find the one or two consumers who will convert into sales, but by reversing the target could marketers raise even more revenue? >>

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

WebSideStory Research into Paid vs. Organic Search Tallies with Peer Reviews

WebSideStory.com is reporting that paid search is only slightly more efficient than organic search results for conversions. The company analyzed over 57 million search engine visits on Google, Yahoo and MSN. The order conversion rate at business-to-consumer e-commerce sites reached 3.4 percent for pay per click, against a 3.1 percent organic conversion rate, according to the firm. >>

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Google Taken To Court over Messy AdSense Service; Launches New Format

Google is taken to court by Bravacorp, a San Francisco company that demands $250,000 in damages because it took 100 hours to place and review AdSense advertisements on its website and because Google subsequently took its site down. >>

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Organic vs. Paid Search: Is One Better?

WebSideStory has finished a study that compares organic search returns to paid search returns. The big surprise? The conversion rates were nearly identical. >>

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Nokia, Microsoft Team Up To Offer Live Search On Cell Phones

The world's top handset maker Nokia said on Thursday it has reached an agreement with software giant Microsoft to integrate its Live Search capabilities into Nokia's Mobile Search platform. The deal will enable consumers to access Live Search directly from their Nokia N-series multimedia handsets and other compatible Series 60 software devices. >>

Monday, September 25, 2006

Quantcast Makes It Easier To Advertise On Smaller Sites

A new online advertising service is claiming to facilitate marketers reaching the niche areas of the web as effectively as top sites. Quantcast, a start-up firm in San Francisco, has over the past twelve months quietly been building up an arsenal of data covering 100,000 demographic profiles of smaller sites. >>

Monday, September 25, 2006

Is there a way to end click fraud?

You’ve seen their dizzying advertisements and probably bit the Pay-Per-Click ad phenomenon, but more and more online marketers are finding their PPC rates growing by leaps and bounds and their income from PPC ads staying at subterranean levels. >>

Monday, September 25, 2006

Microsoft Streamlining Ads

Wanting to make ad buying simpler for more advertisers, Microsoft is launching a new program that will allow media buyers to purchase ad space across the board. >>

Friday, September 22, 2006

October Brings New Wind To Ask.com Paid Search

Ask.com is hoping an update to the company's paid search program will give them a larger share of the paid search market. Beginning in October, IAC’s Ask.com search portal will revamp the paid search functions, and the company is also reconsidering their current PPC ad partnership with Google. >>

Friday, September 22, 2006

AOL Vying To Outwit Rivals By Offering Enhanced Search and Listing Facilities To Online Video Sharers

America Online has joined the race for a slice of the highly trafficked video sharing action on the web, by saying it’s offering greater compatibility than its rivals in terms of search features. The company has opened its search engine up to third party developers and video content owners, launching the AOL Video Search developer program. >>

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Internet Branding Reaches College Kids

If you want to reach college kids, put your brand on the Internet. That is the result of a new survey from Burst Media. About one-third of the 800 college age kids surveyed said they use the Internet more than 10 hours on a typical week. In comparison, less than 20% say they spend 10 hours or more watching television or listening to the radio each week. >>

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Sports and Social: What Internet Youth Wants

Need to find a niche market for a new line of cosmetics? Want to find new clientele for athletic shoes? The Internet could be your online gold mine. >>

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