Resources – Advertising
Google Launches Display Ads
Google announced on it's official blog at the end of last week that it was rolling out the end product of it's incorporation with DoubleClick, an acquisition that Google made 18 months ago.
The Online Decision Making Process
Making the choice to buy something online involves a variety of different factors. In this article, we'll consider a relatively simple model of the online decision making process that covers the basic stages, and offers an brief explanation for them.
New Boss For Google SA
Business Day reports that there's a new face at the head of Google South Africa, replacing Stafford Maisie, who stepped down in April, after 18 months at the helm of the South African division of the search engine giant.
SEM For Beginners
Search engine marketing, or SEM as it is abbreviated, generally refers to the practice of increasing exposure to your online business platform through search engine results.
Pay Per Click Advertising
Pay per click advertising, or PPC, is a popular internet advertising model in which the companies that advertise pay the host only when a user clicks on their advert.
Google Analytics – Web Tracking By Numbers
Google Analytics is a free service from Google that allows users to track data about visitors to their site. It achieves this by generating detailed statistics that may be analysed, to create an accurate picture of user behaviour.
A PPC Advertising Campaign
PPC, or pay per click, advertising has become a relatively simple and effective way of marketing your business on the web. Essentially, PPC marketing involves advertisers offering a bid on specific keywords that form part of users search terms, in an effort to have their website displayed near the top of search engine results.
Google Adwords – Targeted Internet Marketing
A Google Adwords campaign is widely considered one of the most effective targeted marketing opportunities that exists today on the internet. It takes advantage of Google's ability to display a relevant ad alongside the search engine results that appear when a user searches for a specific term, or contextually depending on the content of the site on which it will advertise your product.
Search Engine Marketing – Measurable Results
One of the greatest benefits of internet marketing lies in the fact that it's one of the marketing strategies that's more measurable than most. Making use of search engine marketing services lets you immediately determine the number of conversions you've achieved, whether into online leads or sales, as well as how much revenue your online marketing has generated, and the overall return on investment.
Online Advertising: Target Your Market
Online advertising is a form of advertising that uses the technology of the internet, in order to spread your marketing message across a network of different channels. Online advertising offers some significant advantages over more traditional media, particularly in it's immediacy, and lack of geographical limitation.
Online Advertising and SEO Versus Traditional Advertising
Traditional advertising and marketing is clumsy and unwieldy when compared to the more modern online marketing (such as SEO).
Search Engine Optimisation Is Google Optimisation
Although the industry is called search engine optimisation (SEO), the truth of the matter is that most websites, especially in South Africa, want and need to optimise for Google.
Why Outsource Your Pay Per Click (PPC Campaign)
When deciding to engage in a PPC campaign many companies are faced with the choice of whether to attempt the activity themselves, or to outsource the task to a Pay Per Click company.
Marketing and Advertising: What's the Difference?
The line between marketing and advertising is often a blurred one in most people's minds. Many think of the two as merely different words used to describe the same process. This is, of course, a misconception.
SEO vs PPC
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and Pay Per Click (PPC) have become the two most prominent forms of web marketing today.
The SEO Interview
The whole SEO field is somewhat obscured by a kind of industry mystery, where no one but those directly involved really know what it is all about, and sometimes even those involved seem to be a bit clueless. So, where does this leave you, looking to employ an SEO professional?
SEO is Not IT - Not Just For Techies
The accessibility of the Internet has made it a tool to be used, and a world to be explored, by one and all. Today, one of the groups most benefited by the information revolution, aside from the techno-geeks, are marketers and advertisers.
Professional SEO Tools
Every good SEO will make use of, and have access to, a wide range of professional SEO tools. With the wide variety of SEO tools available for download to the modern search engine optimiser, the tasks that make up successful search engine optimisation can be drastically expedited through automation.
Invest Time In Marketing
Marketing your business is an investment. You invest your money into certain mediums and you hope to see a return on that investment, otherwise why spend the money?
How Much Does A Lead Cost You?
It's scary to me that so many companies spend huge amounts of money on their marketing campaigns, without knowing how much of a return those campaigns are giving them.
Measuring Advertising
Have you heard those whispered words of dissension? The voices that claim the unimaginable? The words that indicate your money disappearing into the darkened woods of uncertainty...The words “Advertising is not measurable.”