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Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:57

Google Images Ads

Written by Thom Henderson
Its quite funny that it took this long to bring the Adwords platform onto Google’s images website. The text based ads have been the big money spinner for Google over the last decade but they really need to expand their advertising to make even more money without damaging the quality of the content.
Tuesday, 02 November 2010 11:32

Google Mobile Advertising

Written by Alexi Vontas

mobileadThere are literally hundreds of avenues to go about selling a product online, most people stick to traditional websites and traditional marketing. In this case the website serves primarily as an online brochure and is just a backup in case someone looks for their business online. But things are changing and the world is quickly turning mobile!

 

Sunday, 17 October 2010 11:08

How Google Instant will Affect AdWords Management

Written by Alexi Vontas

Very recently Google.com released the most innovative functionality in its search engine results that we have seen. As you type your query, results are dynamically shown for the key-phrase as you type. This means quicker searches and faster results. Something that will be greatly affected in this will be the way we interact with Instant AdWords and how they are displayed to us.

paidWith all the different channels of paid advertising on the internet, how can one decide which channel is really the best to invest in? Well, to a large extent it does depend on the line of business you are in, but let's use a small e-commerce business for an example and compare the different methods of paid adverts one should consider, together with their pros and cons.

Monday, 03 May 2010 07:34

Enhanced CPC Beta

Written by Alexi Vontas
cpcGoogle has released the beta version of a new function in AdWords that will allow historical data to determine how likely a keyword is to result in a conversion and raise your bid for a search on that keyword. They are calling this Enhanced CPC beta.

Users lucky enough to have this function available to them are seeing this as a mixed blessing. Look at it this way… If Google can predict which keywords are more likely to result in a conversion, it is great that they will raise your bid to allow your advert to show higher in CPC results. However, for people advertising more or less the same product, and iPhone for instance, won’t this mean that all your competitors’ bids will also be raise for the high converting keywords, only resulting in inflated earnings for Google?

Monday, 25 January 2010 10:45

Google Adwords Vs SEO

Written by Thom Henderson

Paid LinksSo you have done some research into the prospects of conducting some serious search engine optimisation on your website. This is a brilliant idea as the further into the future we march the more important it will be to have your website correctly seo’d before our gigantic internet will engulf it and let it sit at the back of the queue while other more established or affluent companies grab those first 10 spots available.


Those first 10 spots are a potential goldmine and cannot be ignored. Trying to get there is another story. Google has its own mathematical algorithms which can consist of over 200 factors that can be found on your website. These include content, the landing page, how effective the links are and how old the site may be. But one thing it looks at first is how relevant all your information is to the search query Mr John Doe has just clicked.

Thursday, 10 December 2009 08:43

Advertising a Trademarked Term in Google AdWords

Written by Alexi Vontas
Google has just published that it now allows AdWords advertisers to display adverts for any keywords they wish, so long as trademarked terms submitted by the owner are not used in the adverts title, body or display url. This means that you can show your Google pay-per-click advert to anyone searching for any term, trademarked or not.
tmThe problem comes in, when your adverts are not attracting the searchers attention due to it not being specific enough to their search query, creating a situation where your click-through rate becomes very low, pushing your quality score down and your average cost per click up. Eventually you might give up on advertising for those terms, as the ROI form those ads are just way too low.

The solution is getting permission to use the trademark in your ad text, but how do you go about it? Simple... Ask the TM holder to submit an online form granting you exemption of the trademark restriction, and supply them with your Google AdWords Sustomer ID.

They can find the form online at this address: https://services.google.com/inquiry/aw_tmauth . Once the company submits the form, Google will notify them and you of the exemption, allowing you to use that term freely in your ad texts.If the trademark holder doeasn't want you to use it in the fear of damge to their brand or loss of revenue, they can of course deny you the use of the term. Let's hope they don't...

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