One of the winning factors behind a successful advertising campaign is precise targeting: not only is the product you want to promote important, but the target audience you want to pitch to. Would you offer high-heels to old men? I don’t think so.
Since last March, Google has been offering a new tool to reach the [...]
Posted in New Media Tips on May 23rd, 2008
Online advertisers know how crucial the landing page is in order for a campaign to perform well: the landing page has to catch users attention through strong claims with the help of simple and incisive (clear and not confusing) design. But a good landing page cannot be just good looking: it should have some specific [...]
Posted in Search Engine Marketing on May 15th, 2008
Google AdSense is probably one of the most revolutionary products in Big G’s history: together with AdWords, it is without a doubt one of the most important Google tools. While AdWords is the perfect technology for advertisers, AdSense is publisher oriented… and in this case we are talking about EVERY publisher. That’s the power of [...]
Posted in Search Engine Marketing on May 7th, 2008
As you all know, Google recently updated its AdWords display URL policy. As of April 1st, every display URL inserted in ad texts must reflect the actual destination URL the ad texts lead to. This means that, if for instance, your landing page is http://lab.77agency.com, the display URL of your AdWords ads must [...]
Posted in Search Engine Marketing on April 24th, 2008
A video could be worth more than a thousand words.
This could be a new Google advertising slogan: as you can see in the image below, the “Big G” is spreading out its new ad models with videos embedded directly into AdWords search results. Video ads are triggered by searches like “smartphone” or “Intel“.
Our opinion at [...]
Posted in Video Advertising on March 26th, 2008
Google has just introduced its “double search” feature: a second search box, related to specific searches within popular sites (e.g. Times, BestBuy, NASA, Walmart and more) will appear in the result page, giving to any user the opportunity to perform another specific search inside that site using Google search engine.
Here’s an example about Walmart search [...]
Posted in Search Engine Marketing on March 25th, 2008
Figures coming from the last comScore research, about US search engine market in February ‘08, show that the amount of money invested online outside the “pure” Search Engine Marketing (e.g. Google AdWords) is getting every month more relevant.
comScore underlines that the reach of advertising networks is far broader than the one of its [...]
Posted in Search Engine Marketing on March 21st, 2008
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