Q&A: Sri Sharma of Net Media Planet on search trends and innovation

… started as a paid search affiliate. PPC (pay-per-click) was and is … major players have invested more in PPC; this is probably because they have … have cut back on their PPC spend (in general) as they … call; we then optimised the PPC for mobile search, and we …

Just how sophisticated is click fraud? You may not want to know

… a huge problem. After all, well-managed PPC campaigns can be highly effective and drive … they're not being cheated and that PPC providers are effectively looking out for … click fraud is often advisable. And PPC providers, whose financial interests are in …

Q&A: Matt Bailey on affiliate marketing trends

… to understand how the path to sale works within the online channel. This advanced level of analysis across multiple online channels (PPC, SEO, display, social media, email etc.) has enabled the i-level affiliate team to test out various hypotheses and …

Q&A: Ed Stevenson of Marin Software on paid search

… application in October 2007. We developed our search marketing technology to allow advertisers and agencies to manage their PPC campaigns more effectively, by taking away menial tasks and saving them time. This greater efficiency should help advertisers …

Q&A: Rand Fishkin, CEO of SEOmoz

… Link acquisition via this methodology is incredibly attractive to businesses and something the engines have also instilled as a behavior - with PPC ads, you spend more money and get more traffic. It's not unnatural that companies would feel they can apply …

A Bill of Rights for online advertisers?

… that these types of restrictions hinder competition in the marketplace. According to his analysis, a full 60% of advertisers using PPC use Google alone so the argument that Google's AdWords API terms are anticompetitive does carry some weight. The most …

#fail is underrated

… to support a very comfortable lifestyle. Over the past year, however, my friend has experienced what a lot of domainers have: decreasing PPC revenues. While he's still earning enough to pay the bills, the writing on the wall is clear to me at least: he …

Analytics fraud for fun and profit

… the 'Add a result' feature on Google someone could add the PPC tracking URL (or landing page query string) to the organic … click on that tracking URL often without ever clicking on the PPC results. This means no click fraud and therefore no click fraud …

Q&A: Matthew Don on Flash and SEO

… an increased role to play along with content aggregation portals; offline and online media; non-organic search placements (i.e. PPC) and other channels, like blogs, mean that there is a plethora of options available to distribute and broadcast an execution …

Does the UK car industry not get social media?

… in other areas, but it doesn't seem to match the efforts of Ford. The company also seems to have a wasteful and expensive PPC strategy in place, buying ads for the term 'new car' which seems way to broad for what is supposed to be an exclusive product, …

Should SEOs be paid for performance?

… the developer gets to build a potentially lucrative online property using a domain that someone would probably kill for. Given that PPC revenue has declined for many domainers, developers who know lead generation/CPA inside and out may be especially well- …

What can email marketing learn from Twitter, blogs and other social media channels?

… enough for anyone to be classed as an expert. Marketers are a little stuck, they know loads about 'tradigital' marketing (email marketing, PPC, and SEO) but don’t yet have enough access to proven social media wins to easily get buy in. So I’ve been …

Does paid search deliver more conversions than organic search?

… cycle. Personally, I think there can be little doubt that PPC and SEO are both usually important components of a comprehensive online … is collecting the right data. Some companies will get more from PPC than they will from SEO. And vice versa. But you …

Online lead generation still growing but becoming more competitive

… . Digital channels have become more competitive and this is reflected by fewer respondents saying that channels such as SEO, PPC and email marketing to in-house lists are 'very effective'.  As more companies have become professional and committed to …

Search experts react to the Yahoo / Microsoft deal

… of advertisers who are currently using just Google AdWords for PPC.” Andy Heaps: As a client we are looking forward to … be a benefit to companies with bid management technology for PPC since they will have fewer APIs to integrate with. Although …