Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He invented the category of sponsored search. He created GoTo.com (later renamed Overture) out of a frustration with search. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. Overture (Goto.com).

Product 350

Product Tuvalu Dilution Incubator 350

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. It’s harder than it looks to exploit people’s propensity to share humorous, enjoyable or useful information - jokes, special offers, and games. Seed viral activity. People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before.

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Viral Marketing Entrepreneur SEM 249

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

CEO/President is Karl Siebrecht (ex-Pres of Atlas at AQuantive and ex-GM of ad platform product management, search and display marketing, and mobile and gaming advertising for Microsoft). WordStream – Provides software and services that help businesses manage SEM and SEO campaigns. Primarily targets SMBs.

Stealth 285

Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

How many through SEM? per click on an SEM basis this is NOT your cost to acquire a customer – you need to add conversion rate. You can find out how to more cost effectively buy search terms (i.e. If you can break this down by channel that you’ve acquired them from this is obviously better. How many adds came through organic SEO?

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Metrics Startup Acquisition SEM 346

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. It’s harder than it looks to exploit people’s propensity to share humorous, enjoyable or useful information - jokes, special offers, and games. Seed viral activity. People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before.

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Viral Cost Marketing SEM 238

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

A strong web design can help a restaurant to more effectively market itself, can help convert visitors who find the restaurant by searching, for example, on Yelp, shopping for a deal through Groupon, or searching on Google or Bing. And it doesn’t help you much in search engine optimization. Consider Performance.

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Web Design Flash SEM 127

The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

Kevin Wu, co-founder and CEO of job search optimization program Pathrise , says “Digital marketer roles are some of the most in-demand positions in the tech industry.” SEO – Search Engine Optimization for Online Marketing Concept. These search engine optimization (SEO) skills are absolutely essential for digital marketers.

Technical Review 148

Technical Review PPC SEM Marketing 148

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2011

This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. It’s harder than it looks to exploit people’s propensity to share humorous, enjoyable or useful information - jokes, special offers, and games. Seed viral activity. People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before.

Viral 225

Viral Marketing SEM Startup 225

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2014

Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized. You probably already know that search engines index sites based on the quality of content (and links). The more content on your site, the more attractive your site becomes for search engines (more about search engine optimization in tip 9 below).

Small Business 134

Small Business Web Design Marketing 134

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized. You probably already know that search engines index sites based on the quality of content (and links). The more content on your site, the more attractive your site becomes for search engines (more about search engine optimization in tip 9 below).

Small Business 123

Small Business Web Design Marketing 123

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized. You probably already know that search engines index sites based on the quality of content (and links). The more content on your site, the more attractive your site becomes for search engines (more about search engine optimization in tip 9 below).

Small Business 122

Small Business Web Design Marketing 122

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Kenshoo , the SEM automation startup and Sequoia’s darling, has raised a fourth round of $8-10 million from Sequoia. With verticals such as web, gaming, mobile and desktop software, utest has managed to tap into the vast market of companies that don’t have in-house QA teams. The exact details of the deal were not disclosed.

Software Review 138

Software Review Venture Capital Technical Review SEM 138

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

You don’t know what keywords they’re searching for. I spent only hundreds of dollars a month and covered the entire spectrum of SEM. It’s like saying “My target customer has a computer.” ” It’s not someone you can reach or persuade. You don’t know what conferences they go to.

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Customer Software Review SEM Technical Review 279

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2013

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Technical Review Social Media SEM SCRUM 159

YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2016

What is the Search Engine Marketing (SEM) value of new domains? New domain extensions are a boon to SEM efforts. A controlled, PPC marketing study testing the use of different domain names to promote diamond jewelry found that new domain names have a dramatic impact on search engine results. The test compared www.3CaratDiamonds.com

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SEM Los Angeles Software Review Naming 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. It’s harder than it looks to exploit people’s propensity to share humorous, enjoyable or useful information - jokes, special offers, and games. Seed viral activity. People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before.

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Campaign Cost Viral Marketing 167

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2018

Digital marketing consultants regularly aid businesses with internet reputation management, PPC (Pay Per Click) advertising, SEM (Search Engine Marketing), SEO (Search Engine Optimization), website development, website design and branding. Companies that show up rapidly on Bing and Google often tend to get more website traffic.

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SEM PPC Social Network Flash 113

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

Over 45% of Yelp’s* searches begin on mobile. The applications can also leverage mobile-only features such as GPS search and the camera interface. On the browser, SEO and SEM are paramount, but the equivalent tools on mobile are either non-existent or at best immature. The core concept of “search” is in transition.

Mobile 96

Mobile SEM SEO Technical Review 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2010

This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working. It’s harder than it looks to exploit people’s propensity to share humorous, enjoyable or useful information - jokes, special offers, and games. Seed viral activity. People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before.

Viral 141

Viral Cost Marketing SEM 141

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

We tend to be far too obsessed about Search Engines and Twitter and the Next Shiny Object. Organic and paid search, direct traffic , Twitter and Facebook, Facebook display ads, email marketing, top referring sites etc etc. 3: Paid Search Performance Analysis Micro-Ecosystem! The first tab is focused on the SEM team.

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Analytics Web Customer SEM 126

YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

SEO-oriented content for wider visibility on search pages. In this case, your marketing message should clearly state the problems your customers are facing and how your content marketing agency could chip in with some help: SEO and SEM Experts to help execute plans. So, their marketing message should speak of the following benefits.

Marketing 127

Marketing Social Media SEM Audience 127

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. Cost per click (CPC).

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 17, 2016

The best place to begin is with a little soul-searching, keeping your goals and budget in mind. Test your app store creative, your keywords, your ad spend and your email campaigns, and try holiday-specific offers with your SEM. It may seem strange, but ask yourself if you really need to market during the holiday. Constantly experiment.

Marketing 113

Marketing SEM Affiliate Forecast 113

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2011

I should have added that a website not optimized for search engines is lost in the heap of a billion dead websites. Unless someone searches for your company by name, it won’t show up in the first few pages of any search results. Search engines are programmed to rank websites based on their popularity and relevancy.

Search 233

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

Kevin Wu, co-founder and CEO of job search optimization program Pathrise , says “Digital marketer roles are some of the most in-demand positions in the tech industry.” SEO – Search Engine Optimization for Online Marketing Concept. These search engine optimization (SEO) skills are absolutely essential for digital marketers.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review PPC SEM Marketing 78

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In another example, let’s say most of your acquisition comes through organic search, but conversion rate to signups is lower than you’d expect. Search engine marketing: Driving ROI from searchers. Running search engine marketing (SEM) experiments requires testing more than just the ads themselves.

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Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Cutting out noise and creating a PPC strategy that drives business: It’s the goal of SEM professionals everywhere. Relevance of Keywords to Search Queries. Do your keywords match what people are typing in the search box ? Does the user’s search query appear in the landing page?

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PPC Matching Technical Review Search 114

ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

To find out who your top competitors are: Do a Google search, check Google Trends, SimilarWeb, Compete or Alexa. If your company doesn’t show up in the search results or doesn’t get clicked on – you know you’ve got work to do. Then I perform my own search, going through at least 2 pages of PPC ads and organic results.

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SEO Analytics Conversion Search 131

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

So if you paid $100 for a customer who converted via a Facebook ad or Google search ad (SEM) that is not your CAC. The first mistake that mostly only rookies make is to measure the CAC by looking at the attributable marketing costs of acquiring a user.

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Metrics Cost Acquisition Startup 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. For new product startups, search engine marketing (SEM) is still one of the most cost-effective and scalable lead-generation approaches.

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Lead Generation Customer SEM Marketing 365

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

4 Surprising SEM Stats Every E-Commerce Marketer Should Know | Search Engine Land – crowdspring.co/1kD9ZHH. Social, Digital & Mobile Around The World (January 2014) – crowdspring.co/1gYcVJm. Thinking about buying some online ads? Most people ignore them – crowdspring.co/1fWp19y. 1eklyfu.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 96

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

If you’re moving slowly or have yet to implement search engine optimization (SEO) strategies as part of your overall marketing efforts, you’re falling behind your competitors. to keep a user on a landing page, be sure that your landing page content delivers on the promises you made in your search results.

SEO 48

SEO Search Engineer Small Business 48

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

To find out who your top competitors are: Run a Google search; Check Google Trends, SimilarWeb, Compete, or Alexa. If your company doesn’t show up in search results or get clicked, you’ve got work to do. Then, I perform my own search, going through at least two pages of PPC ads and organic results. Which results show up?

SEO 126

SEO Conversion Analytics Design 126

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Getting the most of your online marketing: the In & Out of SEM/SEO. In search of Europe's next tech stars. on a scale of 1-4). on a scale of 1-4). The videos can be watched at Bessemer Online Marketing Portal (the other materials are not public). Small and medium businesses. (2). software. (10). Venture Capital. (3). Blog Archive.

Software Review 48

Software Review SEM Marketing Las Vegas 48

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

Source attributes : where do people come from (websites, campaigns, search engines etc etc). Remember this is not just a problem for web analytics but also for search engine Robots / Spiders. A final example of using redirects is as a part of campaigns (banner ads, search marketing, affiliates etc). Category=238. &AppID=859&rDirURL=[link].

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Analytics Web Software Review 93

searchengineland.com

MAY 30, 2012

Search Week Newsletter. Search Month Newsletter. B2B Search Marketing. Enterprise SEM. In House Search Marketing. Local Search. Mobile Search. Multinational Search. Paid Search. Search & Analytics. Search & Analytics. Search & Conversion. SEM Columns.

SEO 54

SEO SEM Social Media Search 54

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

Bonus Tip : Oh and if you want to get a smidgen more value, configure the store locater search parameter in your internal site search and bam bam (!!) Bonus Tip : Are you using unique phone numbers for your Paid Search landing pages? It is not that hard, check out the Omniture report for the above url and bam (!),

Analytics 116

Analytics Conversion Campaign Redemption 116