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5 Local Linkbuilding Ideas For The Post-Penguin/Panda Era

I have been fielding a lot of calls from sites big and small that believe they got hit by Penguin, Google+’s “over-optimization” algorithm. Or maybe it was Panda? Who knows? Traffic is down and everybody is freaking out.
I have a particular …

4 Alternatives You Need To Consider Beyond AdWords

While there’s no arguing with the fact that Google+’s Adwords program is the dominant player in the PPC industry, it’s by no means the only option when it comes to paying for website traffic.
In fact, the size of the Google Adwords program cr…

4 PPC Tactics To Ensure You Meet & Exceed Your Plan

In this column, we routinely write about some fairly advanced topics: Next-level optimization, automated bidding algorithms, hyper-targeted search campaigns, paid vs. organic search, etc. Lost in all this is the underlying discussion around the ne…

3 Tips for Monetising Your Content

With any marketing activity, the killer is finding a tangible way to demonstrate ROI. It’s something that continues to hold back investment in new and emerging channels and something marketers have to constantly work at – often more so than the…

10 Great Adwords Options For Boosting Conversions

We all know that Adwords is the most used system in the world to drive paid traffic to websites. The Adwords system is an extensive system with a lot of complex options to optimize campaigns and increase conversions.
Advanced PPC managers should a…

The Importance of Maintaining “Scent” for CRO

You’ve probably seen the CRO case studies that have touted insane conversion lifts from simply changing the text on a button or the background color of a product page. This is not a blog post about that sort of test. I don’t doubt that the s…

Why SEO is Best in Recession

Yes, the country’s back in recession and we’re all doomed to spend the next 10 years wandering through an economic wasteland.
Or are we? Now’s the time for start-ups with good ideas and great motivation to take advantage of low spending by th…

3 Lessons Paid Search Can Learn From SEO

There’s no denying the synergy between SEO and paid search marketing, and paid search marketers would do well to take away a lesson or two from the world of organic search engine optimization to improve their campaigns.
1.  Keywords! Keywords!

Using Google Analytics To Collect & Benefit From AdWords Position ROI

As an agency, we talk a lot about client expectations and understanding. Reality and actuality sometimes don’t start off in the same place, or even the same hemisphere. When we talk about Google+ AdWords, clients sometimes expect a few hours of e…