Your SEM Competitive Advantage
So what does it take to win the SEM war against your competition? Extensive keywords lists? Award winning creative? Clairvoyant bid management system?
Keyword lists, creative and bidding technology are all fairly well understood and relatively easy to deploy. So, if this is the case, what is to stop your SEM strategy deteriorating into a bidding war against your competitors where the choice is to either buy traffic at a level that is not profitable or have your ad pushed down into obscurity?
Search Engine Bootcamp
Thursday July 3
SEARCH ENGINE BOOTCAMP – AUCKLAND
9:35 Fundamentals of Paid Search, Jon Ostler – First Rate
Jon Ostler and Dave Underwood will be speaking at the Search Engine Bootcamp, a one-day Search Engine Marketing seminar, designed to maximise knowledge on a wide range of search engine marketing techniques, ranging from how to build a search engine friendly website to understanding what options are available for pay per click search advertising.
First Rate – Category winner and a fast 50 company for second consecutive year
Auckland-based, online marketing agency First Rate has entrenched its status as one of New Zealand’s fastest-growing companies with its winning of the fastest growing Media, Advertising and Communications category in the 2007 Deloitte/Unlimited Fast 50 Index, published today.
First Rate has recorded spectacular revenue growth over the last two financial years of 304%, and was ranked in 21st place in the latest Fast 50 Index.
AdWords moves landing page quality goalposts
Certain types of websites are unlikely to be able to achieve high scores for the quality of their landing pages after Google recently announced some AdWords changes.by Helen Leggatt
Banner Ads
Online, banner ads are the closest thing to offline advertising as they contain a high degree of creative and reach a large audience. Mainly for this reason they have dominated online advertising budgets over the past few years. However they are far more powerful than offline advertising as they can be interactive and be placed in real time allowing rapid A/B testing. Unfortunately due to their cost and consumer behavior online they can produce poor ROI if used inappropriately.