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Is It Curtains for the App Store?

February 11th, 2010 | Written By: Jay Baer
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Guest post by Bob Dennis, freelance Web designer with experience in everything from audio production to social networking.
After two-and-a-half years, iPhone app developers are getting fed up with Apple’s lengthy and often inconsistent approval process. Also, $0.30 may not seem like much, but the fact that Apple is taking 30% of all app profits [...]

Tagged as: app store, Apple, applications, Bob Dennis, Fennec, google, Google Voice, HTML5, mobile marketing

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What Facebook and Email Stole from Google’s Playbook

October 29th, 2009 | Written By: Jay Baer
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A long time ago, you could get Web pages ranked in search engines solely based on how many times a keyword was present on the page. This of course resulted in the laughably loathsome practice of keyword stuffing, where Web pages were purposefully written with “discount Easter baskets for sale” 30 times in a row. [...]

Tagged as: content, content engagement, email marketing, facebook, google, optimization, personalization, relevancy, search marketing, social media, Social Media Marketing, testing

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Why PPC is about to skyrocket – and then CRASH

October 14th, 2008 | Written By: Jay Baer
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Times are tough.
But one area that is ready to soar is pay-per-click search marketing (PPC). That most measurable and controllable of digital marketing opportunities, PPC looks like a no-brainer in this economy.
Have you called a newspaper lately and asked them if they’ll charge you per phone call generated? Even with ad sales down 14% year [...]

Tagged as: cost per click, digital marketing, google, Internet Advertising, pay-per-click, ppc, ppc programs, PPC tips, ROI, SEM

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5 Memorable Lessons from my Sarah Palin PPC Campaign

September 8th, 2008 | Written By: Jay Baer
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Thanks to everyone for participating in my “Are you man enough to write a PPC ad about a woman VP” contest. Many excellent entries (see original post). Here are the results:

McCain is 72 years old
Avg US life expectancy is 78 years
Is Palin qualified? Read This
DailyKos.com 1.31% Click-through rate

Sarah Palin’s Secrets
What the GOP doesn’t want you to
know about [...]

Tagged as: Contest, google, landing pages, pay-per-click, ppc, ppc copywriting, ppc programs, PPC tips, Sara Palin, search engine copywriting, search marketing, web analytics and testing

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Win $200 in the Palin on PPC Contest

August 29th, 2008 | Written By: Jay Baer
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Are You Man Enough to Write a Great PPC Ad About a Woman VP?
I’m using the puzzling choice of Sarah Palin as McCain’s VP pick to engage in a crowd-sourced search marketing experiment. Namely, who among you can write the most effective Google PPC ad featuring her?

The winner will receive $200 cash from the gilded [...]

Tagged as: Contest, google, ppc, Sara Palin

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How Google Plans to Control TV Advertising and Crush Agencies

August 28th, 2008 | Written By: Jay Baer
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AdWeek ran an interesting story a few days ago about Google’s foray into television advertising. As I’ve been saying for years, Google’s ultimate plan is to be the middle-man for all advertising, everywhere.
There are clearly inefficiencies in the buying and selling of traditional media. It requires multiple phone calls and emails and spread sheets. Why? [...]

Tagged as: ad agencies, advertising agencies, broadcast media, forrester research, google, Google ad planner, google analytics, integrated marketing, internet media buying, media buying, television advertising, traditional advertising, web optimizer

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The Truth About Publicis Buying Performics

August 6th, 2008 | Written By: Jay Baer
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In a sign that major advertising agencies are continuing to recognize the long-term profitability of search marketing, Publicis Groupe bought Performics from Google today.
One of the largest search marketing agencies, Performics will join Digitas and other Publicis entities as part of VivaKi Nerve Center (no, I am not making this up) the new strategic collective [...]

Tagged as: ad agencies, advertising agencies, agency self-promotion, digital marketing agency, google, pay-per-click, performics, ppc, publicis groupe, search engine optimization, search marketing, SEM, SEO, traditional agencies

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3 New Features for Google’s Ad Planner

August 5th, 2008 | Written By: Jay Baer
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Google announced on Friday via one of their blogs that they have added 3 new features to Ad Planner.

(note: for more about Ad Planner, and Google’s long-term plan to totally change the ad agency business, read this post from Convince & Convert’s greatest hits)
Impressive that Google has made pretty significant upgrades to Ad Planner only [...]

Tagged as: google, Google ad planner, integrated marketing, Internet Advertising, internet media buying, media mix, online media, online media planning, usability

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Google to Show Search Volume – Another Blow to Agencies

July 15th, 2008 | Written By: Jay Baer
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In a LOOOOONG overdue move that provides some much-needed transparency to the PPC business, Google has added search volume data to their keyword research tool.
This means that when you use Google to research potential search terms for your clients’ pay-per-click campaign, Google will actually give you an idea of how many people actually search for [...]

Tagged as: ad agencies, advertising agencies, google, Google ad planner, google analytics, Internet Advertising, internet media buying, keyword research tool, keyword selection, online media planning, pay-per-click, ppc, ppc programs, PPC tips, search management, search marketing, search volume, SEM, traditional agencies, Web site Analytics and Metrics, web site analytics and testing, web site metrics, web site statistics, Web site testing and optimization