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.
Super Bowl Advertisers Embrace Search?
When we see an advertisement on TV that strikes our fancy, it’s often the next step is to look up the product online. The easiest way to find out more online is of course, with search.
70%* of this year’s Super Bowl advertisers purchased paid search keywords for their brand names which will help the advertiser’s site be found by someone searching for more information.
Google Qualified Company
First Rate becomes New Zealand’s first Google Qualified Company. First Rate is an online marketing agency that provides online strategy, search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimisation (SEO), email marketing and performance-based online advertising and tracking services direct to a range of clients across Australasia. First Rate has offices in Auckland and Sydney.
Google introduces Gadget Ads
First Rate has become a Google Gadget Ad developer to pioneer the development of gadget ads in New Zealand. First Rate is a direct response, online marketing agency that provides online strategy, search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimisation (SEO), email marketing and performance-based online advertising and tracking services direct to a range of clients across Australasia, including ING, Yellow Pages, APN, Rabo Plus and Roses Only. First Rate has offices in Auckland and Sydney.
Search Engine Advertising – Further Information
Search Engine Advertising is the placement of small text advertisements on search engines. Google Adwords and Overture Pay-for-Performance Search are the two most well known players. On Google the text ads appear at the top of the results and on the right hand side under the heading ‘Sponsored Links’. Overture syndicates its ads to other search engines like Yahoo where they appear at the top of the page and are under the heading ‘Sponsor Results’.