Google AdWords and Analytics – Put a Bounce (Rate) in Your Step – Part III

How Linking These Two Applications Can Improve Your AdWords ROI By Dave Ingalls Digital Marketing Consultant You’ve got your AdWords ads click through rate (CTR) up in the 5-15% range, and sometimes higher, but those clicks are not translating into either online sales and/or product inquiries.  Sound familiar? In Parts I and II of this … Read more

Google AdWords and Analytics – Put a Bounce (Rate) in Your Step – Part II

How Linking These Two Applications Can Improve Your AdWords ROI By Dave Ingalls Digital Marketing Consultant You’ve got your AdWords ads click through rate (CTR) up in the 5-15% range, and sometimes higher, but those clicks are not translating into either online sales and/or product inquiries. Sound familiar? In Part I of this article, we … Read more

Google AdWords and Analytics – Put a Bounce (Rate) in Your Step – Part I

How Linking These Two Applications Can Improve Your AdWords ROI By Dave Ingalls Digital Marketing Consultant Does this sound familiar? You’ve got your AdWords ads click through rate (CTR) up in the 5-15% range, and sometimes higher, but those clicks are not translating into either online sales and/or product inquiries. Waz up with that?! Here’s … Read more

Search Marketing Spending and Trends

Search dominated by paid placement, more SEO to come. eMarketer Dave’s Comments (Digital Marketing Tutorial Blog): The beat goes on! Nice to look at any spending projection chart these days (see full article on eMarketer) and see the numbers going UP! This article also does a nice job making the case for why SEO will … Read more

‘Great Divide’ Separates Small Biz, Online Consumers

MarketingVOX Dave’s Comments (Digital Marketing Tutorial Blog): This overview by MarketingVOX of how consumers find and choose local small businesses is VERY interesting, especially if you are a bricks-and-mortar small business owner! The article basically says that consumers of local small business goods and services search for those services online, preferentially contact those businesses that have … Read more

Q1 ’08 Internet Ad Revenues Up 18.2%

Online Advertising Remains Vibrant Despite Tough Economic Times – $5.8 Billion for Q1 ’08, Second Highest Quarter Ever Interactive Advertising Bureau Dave’s Comments (Digital Marketing Tutorial Blog): I know I’m repeating myself on this subject, but the beat goes on! The emergence of the Internet/Web as the most active and fastest growing segment of the … Read more

Will Social Networks Remain Low-Ad Districts?

By David Hallerman, Senior Analyst eMarketer Dave’s Comments (Digital Marketing Tutorial Blog): An interesting subject, but what I found even more interesting in this eMarketer article is the method this analyst used to monetize the value in advertising revenue of unique visitors to major online advertising Web sites! “The question of whether social network sites … Read more

Web Advertising to Grow Despite Economy

From: Directmag.com Dave’s Comments (Digital Marketing Tutorial Blog): Internet Advertising is on an incredible roll! And the only medium that is predicted to give “traditional” online advertising stiff competition is another form of online advertising! “Internet advertising in the U.S. will continue to grow fast even as the current economic woes will lead to a … Read more

Can User-Generated Content Generate Revenue?

From: eMarketer “Show me the money!” Dave’s Comments (Digital Marketing Tutorial Blog): Content is and remains king when it comes to capturing eyeballs on the Web, but is there a logical way to monetize the user-generated portion of it? An interesting question, given that a good deal of this user-generated “content” is, according to one … Read more

Online Heads for 10% of Total US Ad Spend

From: eMarketer Dave’s Comments (Digital Marketing Tutorial Blog): Having lived thru (and been laid off in!) the “Dot Com” bubble burst of 2001, it is absolutely amazing to me to see that one of THE most resilient sectors of U.S. advertising in 2008 (and beyond) is forecast to be Internet (online) advertising! Even for those … Read more