Category: Search Engine Marketing
What We Learned This Holiday
by Anvil on January 7, 2011 · Ecommerce Website TipsSearch Engine MarketingAnother holiday season come and gone. And of course, what would the holidays be without a making few missteps that we can learn from for next year. A few such ... » Continue
Google HotPot: What’s inside the box?
by Anvil on December 21, 2010 · Local SearchSearch Engine MarketingAs has been reported throughout the internet, Portland has been selected as a test market for Google HotPot. Side note: just a few months ago, Bing sponsored Free Food Cart Day, ... » Continue
Google’s Failure Rate is Really A Success
by Kent Lewis on December 20, 2010 · Search Engine MarketingWeb Analytics World (WAW) recently posted an article regarding Bing’s powering over 25% of searches in November 2010. Included in the post was a chart on what WAW deemed success ... » Continue
Don’t Be Afraid to Pile on the Negative Keywords
by Anvil on December 17, 2010 · Pay-Per-Click (PPC)Search Engine MarketingInstead of reactively adding negative keywords based on search term reports, don't be afraid to proactively add masses of negative keywords based on lists of cities, names or other common modifiers. » Continue
All About Press Release Optimization
by Anvil on December 9, 2010 · Online Brand ManagementSearch Engine MarketingSearch Engine OptimizationPerhaps you’ve heard about the benefits of optimizing your company’s press releases, but do you know how to do it yourself? Read Build Links and Visibility with Press Release Optimization on ... » Continue
Como se dice “Pay Per Click” en Español?
by Anvil on December 9, 2010 · Pay-Per-Click (PPC)Search Engine MarketingTurns out the literal translation in to Spanish is pago por clic. In a perfect world, my 3 years of high school Spanish would have stuck with me enough that ... » Continue
Holiday PPC Got You Panicked? There’s Still Time!
by Anvil on December 3, 2010 · Ecommerce Website TipsPay-Per-Click (PPC)Search Engine MarketingEven though we’ve already passed Cyber Monday (also known as Green Gift Monday), and the number of shipping days are quickly ticking down, there is still time to make the ... » Continue
Google Instant Search
by Anvil on September 8, 2010 · Search Engine MarketingGoogle rolled out instant search today, causing the declaration, “SEO is Dead!” for the nine-hundredth time (I have a running tally) since Search was born. There’s a lot of speculation ... » Continue
What the Heck is my SEM Vendor Talking About?!
by Anvil on September 7, 2010 · Search Engine MarketingIt’s easy for Search Engine Marketers to get wrapped up in the tactical side of things: from managing down CPAs and CPCs to monitoring bounce rates and crawl equity, there’s ... » Continue
Import Your Goals from Google Analytics into AdWords
by Anvil on August 30, 2010 · Pay-Per-Click (PPC)Search Engine MarketingWebsite AnalyticsDid you know that in addition to tracking conversions using the AdWords conversion tracking pixel, you can also IMPORT data from Goals that are configured in your linked Google Analytics ... » Continue
