Click fraud up in Q4 - ClickForensics

Other findings included: The average click fraud rate of PPC ads appearing on search engine content networks was 19.2% … defined as terms that cost over $2.00. The average PPC term cost for the top key terms across the five …

Affiliate Census - Lessons for Merchants

… on Paid Search to make their money. Organic search is used by 74% of affiliates compared to 38% who use Paid Search.   PPC affiliate activity can help to complement what merchants are doing with their own paid search listings but this is by no means …

Will Yahoo!'s half-price sale click with advertisers?

… market”, Yahoo! is hoping to start a fight back from its PPC ad service prior to the European launch of its much delayed new … ’s going to be a lot of tinkering in the Yahoo! PPC accounts over the next few weeks. Damon Lightley is an account …

Blowing away the CPA myth

… other channels such as search and email. Even more subtle trends, such as 5% of affiliate-sourced customers returning via PPC to buy later, demonstrate an overlap that can have an impact on budgets (especially with rising CPC in paid search). The …

Q&A: Polly Gowers of Everyclick

… aiming for in terms of average search values? Our current average search value is 1.4p and rising. We supplement our PPC search revenue with tenancy advertising sales and specialist deals in the finance, travel and retail sector that mean that we can …

Why get more intelligent?

… against your competitors, without being intelligent about your activity and spend, your costs for each acquisition are going to rise. PPC is a great example of this. Don’t be mistaken - your competitors will be getting better at taking customers from …

Xmas is coming, Google is getting fat and it's minus 30!

Earlier this month, some websites became the target of yet another Google attack on e-commerce sites in the run up to Christmas. The search engine has launched a new landing page quality score algorithm for the AdWords sponsored listings. In a …

Bigmouthmedia agrees EU 60m merger

First, let’s look at the juicy details... The move was engineered by the Carlyle Group, one of the biggest VCs in the world. Carlyle acted as matchmaker and financier, setting up Bigmouth and Global Media for some initial discussions after …

Kicking your Google addiction – how NOT to rely on Google paid search marketing

… KPIs are totally different or d) immature PPC players who have no idea how much … soon… - Despite all of the above, PPC is often still the most cost-effective … Google? Perhaps you can invest all your PPC budget into delighting your customers rather than …

Winning the Bidding War on Google Adwords

… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adapted from our new and highly fantastic Paid Search Marketing (PPC) Best Practice Guide - 250+ pages of comprehensive insight into implementing and …

New paid search guide for client teams and agencies

… some choice extracts from the guide on the blog. Yesterday we started out with Understanding different types of keyphrases for PPC success, which looked at keyphrase qualifiers in search queries, as indicators of click / purchase intent and customer value …

Recruiters face new challenges with their search marketing strategy

… that £102m, Pay-Per-Click advertising (PPC) (also known as ‘Paid Search’) accounted … online advertising. However, this growth in PPC advertising is also driving up the … expect to see more marketers rationalising PPC spend and committing more budget to …

Ellen Siminoff on Panama and paid search

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Top ten viral marketing mistakes

… 1. Neglecting promotion and seeding Utilise mailing lists, press releases, forums and invest in banner impressions or PPC. 2. Failing to create an incentive for users to pass it along Make the content itself good/funny – …

Reasons to avoid Flash on your website

… element - that X button in the top right. Besides, if you are going to promote a Flash site via PPC, you should know that Google AdWords doesn’t approve pages with disabled back button.” Flash ignores users needs “Whereas …