Digital is a channel that can and should be tracked end to end - data capture starts from an impression and goes all the way to the final sale. As a company specializing in Search and Social Media, we regularly educate our clients on the importance of granular tracking and help them improve their existing tracking methods across platforms. With integrated in-house PPC, SEO and Analytics teams, we constantly seek to maximize our client's campaign ROI through regular research, granular data capture and analytics.

This article's focus is to showcase the importance of capturing paid search (PPC) keyword data through analytics. Google Analytics (GA) has been considered for this discussion. While you might have a different ... Read more...

We all know the SEO value of keywords. But have you ever wondered which of the thousands of relevant keywords brings meaningful traffic to your site and earns you your real money? If not then it's about time you do.

For a while now, the online marketing community has known that long tail keywords convert cheaper and faster. Long tail keywords are those millions of keywords and phrases that a site is searched for, but go unnoticed.

Long tail is the exact opposite of focused or targeted keywords. In SEO, everyone focuses on the "top keyword". This is what everybody follows and tries to gain rankings for. But if you ... Read more...

Keywords are an integral part of any online advertising campaign; however what is sometimes overlooked is the equal importance of negative keywords which are word filters that disqualify ads being triggered by users search query. For instance if “iPhone” is one of your keyword, each time somebody runs a search for that keyword your ad will be displayed. If someone were to run a search for the term “iPhone problems” your ad will also be displayed, since the main keyword “iPhone” is present in the search query. To avoid bloating total impressions, with irrelevant searches it’s important to add “Problem” as your negative keyword, so that “ iPhone Problem” query wont trigger your ad.

Every search engine advertiser should be using ... Read more...

Mobile ads are a format of Adwords ads that appear on mobile websites and Google search pages when a user searches from a mobile device. Mobile ads are available as either text or image ads. Mobile ads work on a pay per click as well as a pay per call basis. Every ad contains a headline and a description with a maximum of 18 characters each. The third line contains the site URL or a telephone number or both. Advertisers can therefore choose to connect to customers via whichever medium - phone or website - that they prefer, or they can let customers choose. Mobile ads can be targeted only to following countries:  Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, ... Read more...