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A Primer on Online Advertising
Online advertising is not the same as online marketing. Online marketing includes having a great website, blogging regularly, using social media in strategic ways, linkbuilding, and all kinds of other stuff that isn’t advertising. However, there are times when you want to use ads. Say you are selling a new type of senior alert system.…
Behavioral Marketing: Cool to Creepy
While on a deadline once, I was working at my computer till 2:00 a.m. When I got back to my computer at 5:00 a.m., it was offering me ads for sleep aids. This is behavioral marketing: targeting ads according to people’s behavior online. You’ve been shopping for climbing gear, so Facebook serves you ads about…
Clicks, Customers, and Conversions
We had an email from a client recently asking about clicks. We built their website, and in the past year they’d been working with a company that took care of advertising for them. This company was promising 125 “clicks” a month if they re-upped for another year. Was this good, our client was wondering? Should…
Paid or Organic Search, by Keywords
Michio Kaku wrote that people working toward artificial intelligence, such as a computer program that can handle human language the way humans do, are like people building a tower to the moon. They get all excited about how much taller their tower is becoming, while ignoring the fact that their end goal is as far…
Setting a Budget for PPC
Setting a budget for PPC (pay per click, like Google ads) can be easy — pay what you feel you can afford. Few advertising options give you this flexibility. But PPC ads have a lot of moving parts, and that can make it hard to determine the best budget for your needs. Paid search, CPC,…
Is Your Advertising Being Seen?
Advertising traditionally has had one big problem: you pay for potential viewers, not for actual views. That TV station tells you how many viewers they think tune into their show, based on admittedly shaky data from a small segment of viewers who are often self-reporting. The numbers they give you are for potential viewers, and…