Archive for February, 2008

Assessing keyword competitiveness: Part II

Friday, February 29th, 2008

In a previous post on keyword competitiveness, we described a long list of factors that help determine how difficult it would be to achieve top search engine ranking on a keyword based upon competing websites. The process of thoroughly examining the situation is usually unrealistically involved, and the effort would not substantially change the tactics [...]

Advertising on your top ranked keywords

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Should you advertise on keywords for which you already have top rankings?
This question came up recently with a client seeking to improve advertising ROI and redeploy budget to other, less successful keywords. For the purposes of this discussion, let’s assume you have plenty of budget so that the core question is whether such advertising brings [...]