Archive for April, 2009

Lowering bids to increase PPC traffic

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Increasing bids in a Pay-Per-Click (PPC) / search engine advertising campaign improves ad position, which usually increase the number of impressions and clicks. However, if you have a fixed daily budget that is always being spent, you will get more clicks if you decrease bids. Here’s why: The total number of clicks you can get [...]

Business impact of Google Analytics API

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Google recently announced the launch of the Google Analytics API. While most businesses won’t ever make direct use of this service, it isĀ  likely to have a substantial impact on the web analytics landscape through the advent of new, more sophisticated tools for website owners. The API allows 3rd parties to develop applications and services [...]

Using Yahoo tracking parameters, OVKEY and OVRAW

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Yahoo Sponsored Search provides tracking URLs if you click on Administration, then Tracking URLs. When enabled, they append various parameters to your ad URLs so that downstream tracking will show information about ad clicks. The two most useful parameters are OVKEY and OVRAW which together provide substantial insight into how well your campaign focuses on [...]

Yahoo! search engine bought by Web 1 Marketing, Inc.

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Seattle, WA (AFNews) April 1, 2009 — Web 1 Marketing, Inc. has purchased the web search business of Yahoo!, Inc.
“We are pleased to welcome Yahoo! Search to our team,” said Josh Freedman, President of Web 1 Marketing, Inc. “We look forward to the synergies of our two organizations to combine effortlessly, providing our customers and [...]