On May 10th, Microsoft announced that it would be adding a few new features to its Bing search engine, fundamentally changing the look and feel of the SERP (search engine results page). The new SERP will have a three column layout incorporating a social experience. The far left will remain somewhat intact, leveraging both paid [...]

Is One Quality Score Point Worth $19?

by Jeffrey Cooper on May 9, 2012

  If your keywords have a quality score of below 7, your cost per acquisition (CPA) could be suffering as a result.  It is common knowledge that bad quality scores can impact your click costs, but by how much?  And how does that cost affect your bottom line?  A recent study by Three Ships Media [...]

Location, Location, Location

by Mike Lamar on April 2, 2012

It’s local. It’s hyper-local. It’s hyper-focused. Call it what you will, but there’s no denying the recent explosion in location based marketing. As digital media provides create a wealth of adverting options, there’s no excuse for not executing this tactic. Given the blurred line of social media, local advertising and mobile ad units (commonly referred [...]

SES NY: An Information Feast

by Rod Brown on March 30, 2012

The SES conference in NY last week was a smorgasbord of information.  A few takeaways: Keynote speaker Avinash Kaushik kicked off the event with a rousing dissertation on the beauties of Big Data.  He made a good point: average conversion across the top 50 websites is about 2.5%.  Most optimization efforts are focused on that 2.5%.  [...]

Effectively managing investments in digital marketing activities is rarely a true core competency for businesses. In some instances, owning all digital marketing competencies is crucial to the company’s business model.  (For instance, online retailers that compete solely on price or marketers where unbranded SEM drives a majority of their revenue.)  In contrast, many other organizations [...]