Search Engine Keywords Research for the Finance Industry

ClickThrough Marketing has released a paid search keywords report for the finance sector, focusing on loans. It provides details on a number of searches for a range of keyphrases. 

The report focuses on data from Yahoo UK searches for July 2006, and contains search engine key phrase data on 25 key types of loans including secured loans, unsecured loans, homeowner loans and personal loans.

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Posted 10 November 2006 10:40am by Graham Charlton with 0 comments

Email Q&A's From The Floor At ECMOD

Last week, I moderated an interactive seminar on email marketing at ECMOD, the home shopping and catalogue event.  At the end of each session, we discussed the presentations and the attendees asked any questions they had on email marketing. 

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Posted 02 November 2006 11:38am by Henry Hyder-Smith with 0 comments

Accessibility - are 'trustmarks' the answer?

Accessibility group Segala’s recently-launched partner programme has been adopted by a number of agencies in recent weeks, which can now award ‘trustmarks’ to accessible websites.

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Posted 30 October 2006 15:14pm by Chris Lake with 4 comments

Opinion - Search paths to success

By Andrew Hood, Lynchpin Managing Director

The concept of keyword success is hardly new. The growth of search marketing has, arguably, been fuelled by the ability to track the sales delivered by individual clicks, conversion rates and keyword return on investment.

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Posted 25 October 2006 14:30pm by Guest Author with 0 comments

Tips on B2B email newsletter content

Mark Brownlow at Email Marketing Reports has published some useful tips on creating quality content for B2B email newsletters.

Mark has eight years' experience in writing various newsletters and his article contains 31 tips in total: 10 on managing your content, plus another 21 to give you ideas for your newsletter’s content.

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Posted 25 October 2006 14:01pm by Graham Charlton with 2 comments

London business blogging event – last call

So we’re less than two days away from our Blogging for Business event, taking place here in London this Wednesday.

There are about 10 places left, so consider this a last call.

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Posted 23 October 2006 18:35pm by Chris Lake with 1 comment

Web searches to kill window-shopping?

Europe’s high streets could eventually be devoid of banks, travel agents and mobile phone shops as consumers turn to the web for research, according to ACNielsen.

A study by the analyst group found consumers used window-shopping less than the net when choosing their purchases, except when it came to clothing and accessories.

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Posted 13 October 2006 13:45pm by Richard Maven with 0 comments

Witty vs descriptive headlines - what works best?

The Google Pony Danny Sullivan has fired off a few rounds at the authors over at Google Blog, who habitually use non-descriptive headlines such as ‘Greetings, Earthlings!’ and, our favourite: ‘Yes, you can have a pony’.

As an expert in SEO you’d think Danny’s beef would be linked to a lack of keywords in titles, but this isn’t in fact the problem...

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Posted 11 October 2006 15:16pm by Chris Lake with 4 comments

Richard Edelman on PR and blogs

Richard Edelman, CEO of PR heavyweight Edelman, is holding a Q&A session later today via FT.com on the joy-filled subjects of 'blogs and PR'.

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Posted 11 October 2006 13:16pm by Chris Lake with 0 comments

WPP's Martin Sorrell on Google, China and the internet

Sir Martin Sorrell talks to E-consultancy Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP has made a series of investments in the online space this year, most recently the purchase of a 10% stake in Spot Runner, the US-based online ad agency which had also attracted the attention of Google.

He told us why...

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Posted 10 October 2006 12:21pm by Chris Lake with 1 comment