From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Keyword Match Types are Critical to PPC Success

by Greg Patterson on October 30, 2009

Understanding the three different match types for your PPC campaigns is one of the fundamental skills any good search marketer must be able to master. Use these incorrectly and you will quickly blow your budget, not generate any decent sales volume and have a very unhappy boss to answer to!
The three match types:

[Exact Match]
“Phrase Match”
Broad [...]

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Local Map Optimization

Local Map Optimization

by Greg Patterson on October 4, 2009

Here are a couple of amazing statistics regarding local search. Every month more than 1.3 billon local searches are conducted and of all users online 82% regularly perform local searches. What’s more 80% of family budgets are spent within a 50 mile radius of home. Local search might as well be called map search because [...]

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Building Blocks of Search Engine Optimization

SEO Tips

by Greg Patterson on October 3, 2009

Learning Search Engine Optimization
Search engines typically show only 10 results on each page (not counting sponsored links or for local searches when local 3 pak or 10 pak maps also appear). The majority of searchers are most likely to click on the top few returned results. So if you rank at or near the top [...]

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