E-consultancy publishes free Web Analytics briefing

… and, also, the business case for web analytics. We have also published business cases and RFPs for: Usability and User Experience Paid Search (PPC) SEO (Natural Search) Email Marketing Affiliate Marketing

Using search to measure offline success

… bookmarking or making comments on the photograph. Bigmouthmedia uploaded a number of different magazine adverts and discovered that the SEO ~ PPC ~ BTW ~ WTF ~ L8R scored the most "interestingness" of the bunch. That helps us decide which advert to run the …

SEO commitment essential as consumers go organic

… said that SEO is more important  than PPC for branding compared to only 16% who think …  advocate an integrated approach to SEO and PPC from the point of view of both … search engine "real estate", but keeping any PPC spending as efficient as possible. It is …

Click fraud rises again - report

… rate was 14.2% for Q4 of 2006, 13.8% for Q3, and 14.1% for Q2.   The average click fraud rate for PPC ads on search engines was 21.9%, compared with 19.2% for the last quarter of 2006. The average click fraud rate for high-priced search …

Search returns still high but Google power spells risk

… channel. Among those who know their returns from Search, half of respondents are getting an ROI of more than 300% from PPC. For natural search, two thirds of respondents are getting returns of more than 300%. On the face of it, everything seems …

Q&A: AdMob's Russell Buckley on mobile advertising

… serve the campaigns. So far, our focus has been on PPC advertising and text-based links, although we’ll be launching banners … costs, and what payment models do you offer? Currently, we offer PPC text-links, which sell in the UK for around 20p to …

Interview: Tim Curtis, head of Mothercare Direct

… Looking through the site, we were quite impressed with your PPC landing pages. Is PPC something … November, we completely changed our arrangements on PPC. We achieved quite good results on PPC on the old platform, and having changed, we’ve started to …

Interview with 'super-affiliate' Keith Budden

… merchants preventing affiliates from sending traffic direct from PPC ads to their websites - has led to many PPC affiliates having to enter what, for many of them, … . In the short term it hits the PPC affiliates as they need to regroup and …

Google sets up in-game ad battle with Microsoft

… that the video game ad market will grow from $56m in 2005 to $732m in 2010 - not large when compared to Google's PPC revenues but potentially a nice earner. In a written Q&A on its site, Google said it would start testing how to implement the ads, but …

DIY: How to marry your marketing and tech teams

… hard to recover those lost percentages of sales from visitors who want to buy and that have already cost you PPC to bring in. Deri is a director at SciVisum.co.uk P.S. no relationship counsellors were harmed in …

Microsoft clamps down on UK cybersquatters

… worldwide in the last six months. Microsoft said the crackdown was to stop domain owners and online ad networks earning PPC revenues at its expense, but it said it would not be pursuing the networks themselves. Aaron Kornblum, senior attorney at …

Search Engine Marketing survey attracts 700 respondents

… of its publication on E-consultancy.com. Topics covered in the survey include search budgets, the effectiveness of SEO / PPC, attitudes to different search engines and barriers to successful search engine marketing. "This survey is designed to …

Wiki launched for video SEOs

… 37% of online video viewers currently use search engines to find video content. The company also earns cash through PPC ads alongside listings. It distributes its search platform to the likes of Lycos and Microsoft through revenue-sharing deals, and …

Jessops launches reserve and collect service

… to integrate their online and offline channels in this way, but boy can it pay off if they are able to grab online customers via PPC, Kelkoo etc and drive them into store an hour later, ready to buy the product, plus attachments, with no fraud risk and no …

Google to provide tools to combat click fraud

Shuman Ghosemajumder, Google's business product manager for trust and safety says Google are trying to provide its advertisers with 'as much transparency, understanding and control around this issue as we can'. Ghosemajumder added: …