Search Engines

This white paper summarizes recent studies that demonstrate the value of online display advertising, and how search and display advertising used together can drive sales more effectively than either channel by itself.

Changes in customer behavior, contact saturation, and the emergence of new digital channels are forcing marketers to identify new ways to acquire, retain, and grow customers. Organizations that have embraced analytics to inform and evaluate campaigns, drive contact strategies, and ultimately enhance customer experiences have seen improvements in overall marketing effectiveness and ROI.

This white paper discusses best starting points and key factors of determining a website strategy, as well as how to avoid common pitfalls of the process.

Marketing Integration should not be seen with an end result of a Utopia, but instead as one ongoing process.  It can be increased through small integration of on-line and off-line processes that in the end will lead to a better understanding of one's market and financial decisions.

This whitepaper is a readily accessible exploration of the key topics concerned in Video SEO today. As befits such a new and evolving area of expertise, this paper borrows frequently from the online observations and articles of those who are involved in the industry at the coalface and will suggest further reading for additional detail on any given facet of the overall topic.

Nick Stamoulis of Search Engine Marketing Firm, Brick Marketing discusses some best practices to determine and measure the ROI of an SEO program.

Nick Stamoulis of Search Engine Marketing Firm, Brick Marketing discusses several tips of factors to look at when hiring an SEM company.

With the growth of online video, B2B marketers are using video as part of their inbound and outbound marketing strategies — from SEO to banner advertising — improving overall results and increasing returns from their marketing investments. Learn proven approaches and practical examples of the ways B2B Marketers can grown their business through the effective use of online video in both inbound and outbound marketing initiatives.

With the explosive growth of online video, many marketers are experimenting with a variety of distribution strategies. Discover how you can quickly, easily develop the right distribution strategy for your online video content. The right distribution strategy can increase traffic to your website, build a more widely known and influential brand, and tap into previously unreachable customer bases.

When referring to email marketing, the terms "relevance"; and"engagement" have been more than overused, but unfortunately, the message doesn't seem to be hitting home to quite a few email marketers. In a web 2.0 savvy world, the need for email marketers to be smarter with their email marketing tactics becomes even more of a necessity.

Hiring and managing quality employees is critical to the success of any small business. It is important to start thinking about your hiring in terms of a talent life cycle...even as a small business. You must dedicate resources, time and care to all phases of employment, from brand establishment and candidate attraction to onboarding and employee succession.

As a software provider for a product information management solution, we were experiencing a myriad of problems supporting and servicing our on premise application – too many versions to maintain, test, install and upgrade. It was becoming increasingly difficult to support our existing customers, let alone sell to new customers.  The following information is a compilation of our research.

Discover how to get the most from your Google AdWords campaign. Learn the key pitfalls that hundreds of high-technology and other B2B companies encounter when setting up their search program, and how to avoid making the same mistakes.

The growing problem of decrease traffic quality is making advertisers think twice about where and how they spend their advertising dollars. Learn how to keep them happy and buying in this special report from Click Forensics.

What is click fraud?  Who is committing it?  Why should you be concerned about your paid search campaigns?  Learn how to identify if you are at risk with this special report from Click Forensics.

To attract and retain customers, financial institutions today must be able to provide customers with real-time, reliable information about their bank accounts and transactions, no matter where they are located. Anywhere access to actionable account information helps customers control their finances, fight fraud, and conduct their lives more efficiently.

This white paper addresses the application of SMS messaging to the banking industry, and suggests how financial institutions can leverage multimodal messaging architecture to gain a competitive advantage.

Communication is a profoundly human activity and the primary driving force behind all technological development. The secret of the mobile phone’s success lies not just in its simplicity, but also in its adaptability.  Download this white paper to learn more.

A White Paper on a Critical but Too-Often-Overlooked Step in the B2B Lead Generation Process.

Are you thinking about outsourcing your PPC Management and not sure how to really evaluate the best agency to meet your needs?  With thousands of agencies to choose from, how do you make sure you hire the right company? Read this insightful whitepaper that discusses the 57 questions you should be focusing on in your pursuit for the right PPC Management agency.

If your company provides services throughout a major metropolitan area, or even in multiple areas, you may think you're improving the odds of attracting new business by offering a toll-free 800 number on your web site. However, a recent test by the Engine Ready team actually proved the opposite. Read the results in this white paper.

As an online marketer, what keeps you up at night? For a lot of us, it's the debate over whether to invest our limited promotional budget into SEO or PPC to achieve the highest conversion and average order value. Learn which traffic source provides the highest converting and largest spending customers.

Besides being a terrible drain on your online budget, using the wrong keywords in your PPC accounts can probably make you feel ill as you wonder how your competitors can afford to keep their listings ahead of yours. Discover how your analytics can easily cure those ills and get you on track for higher returns on your PPC investment.

More and more, companies are realizing the importance of creating a strong online presence both in the free organic search results and the paid advertisements that appear alongside those results. The tracking features of website logs and the measurability of pay-per-click ads enable marketers to monitor the traffic of their organic listings and the performance of their online advertising campaigns. However, it's comparatively more difficult to determine how the placement of those search listings and online ads affect consumer brand perceptions.

Comparing the two search engines predominantly used by Chinese searchers – Baidu and Google.cn – Enquiro conducted an eye tracking study with Chinese students to answer how Search user interaction can differ between cultures, languages and reading patterns. How do Google and Baidu compare? And how do Chinese searchers use organic vs. paid listings?