Don't fall into the lure of putting all your search engine marketing 'eggs' into one basket.
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) requires a different kind of expertise to Search Engine Marketing, and whilst we have a small army of Qualified AdWords Professionals who are experienced in creating and orchestrating successful AdWords campaigns, we don’t pretend to have the wherewithal to perform Search Engine Optimisation to the standards we hold ourselves to. If you’re unsure as to what Search Engine Marketing (also known as Pay-Per-Click advertising and Sponsored Search) entails, there are two excellent breakdowns in brief here, or in detail here. SEO is a blanket term that’s use…(more...)
Tags: Google, Online Advertising, Pay-Per-Click (PPC), Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Yahoo!
Social media sites are set to take over search engines as the most visited type of website in Australia according to the latest hitwise statistics.
Hitwise have released some interesting statistics for search engine trends and usage in Australia (see the detailed facts and figures on Hitwise Research Director Alan Long’s blog) and for anyone who isn’t up to date with current trends, this post will shed some new light on how to gear your SEM for the new year. Social media sites are set to overtake traffic from search engines. Search Engines (such as Google and Yahoo) attributing 12.8% of all sites visited, social media sites (such as Facebook and MySpace) closely follow with 11.8%. It is estimated that social media will soon overtake search engines as the most popular websites to visit – especially so over the Christmas break. Facebook and MySpace must be licking their lips at the prospect of being the most visited sites in Australia and therefore an increased potential advertising revenue. Much like the television stations of traditional media, more people watching equals a larger audience for advertisers and therefore more advertising potential in terms of raw numbers and targeted demographic reach. Another interesting fact to note is that Australians uses search engines more (12.8%) than the Brits (UK-12.6%), the kiwis (New Zealand 12.2%) and the yanks (U.S.-10%). Google Dominates Search Engines-Bing the mover Google- 87.1% ( – ) Bing- 4.7% ( + 0.6%) Yahoo- 2.3% ( – ) The amount of advertising dollars spent on launching Bing and creating brand awareness has been apparently significant enough to warrant an increase in market share. However, it is not nearly as big as what the big coffers at Microsoft would have hoping for. It is expected that Bing will increase their market share slightly over the Christmas period and into the new year. Users Love Brands One of the largest changes in users’ search behaviors is the rapid increase in brand name and brand related searches. In 2006, brand related searches accounted for 8.75% and in 2009 it accounts for 14.22% of all searches. This is an important development for search marketers as it shows the benefit of using brand related keywords more so now than ever before. Searchers More Refined Than Ever Before Whether it has to do with demographics shifting, or users becoming better practiced in the art of searching, users are using more words to search than ever before. 1-2 word searches have decreased and 3-5 word searches have increased from their 2008 figures. When 3-5 Word Searches now account for 52.8% of all queries and it is becoming increasingly important that long tail keywords are a part of any AdWords campaign. 1 Word Searches- 18.6% (Decreased) 2 Word Searches- 28.6% (Decreased) 3 Word Searches- 24.2% (Increased) 4 Word Searches- 14.3 % (Increased) 5 Word Searches- 14.3% (Increased)…(more...)
Tags: Australia, Google, Internet, Online, Online Advertising, Search Marketing, SEM, Statistics
Google Mobile Advertising now spans both their website and now applications on mobile operating systems including the iPhone.
The world’s largest internet company has announced the acquisition of California-based AdMob for $806 million (US $750 million) worth of Google stock. The mobile advertising pioneer is a Silicon Valley success story that emerged in 2006, when Omar Hamoui founded the company after being frustrated by a lack of ways to generate traffic for his mobile site, claiming it was too hard to engage users. “I’ve been working in mobile for over seven years now. Before AdMob, I founded two separate mobile startups that never got significant traction. It was so frustrating to build what I knew was a…(more...)
Tags: AdMob, Advertising, AdWords, Google, iPhone, Online, Online Advertising, Search Marketing, web technology
Users looking for car videos on YouTube now get promoted links to Mitsubishi’s new Outlander film clips in addition to organic results.
Google has finally launched its Promoted Video service for YouTube media clips in Australia. The offering basically works like the wildly popular AdWords keyword search, only it comes up with a list of “Promoted Videos” alongside regular search results. Car manufacturers were the first to get in on the action, with Mitsubishi and Holden both shelling out coin to have their own videos promoted on generic search results. A scan for the term “4×4” or “car” in YouTube will put a sponsored link to Mitsubishi’s video channel next to the normal list of search results. If you try this at home, don…(more...)
Tags: Advertising, AdWords, Google, Online Advertising, Search Marketing, YouTube
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