Shailesh Ghimire on August 12th, 2010

I just noticed a sponsored link on Google Local Search while searching for a meeting venue in Phoenix, AZ. I noticed that the local map listing had a “sponsored link” section. I had never seen this before. I did some investigation and found that this comes from connecting your Google Places account to your Google [...]

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Shailesh Ghimire on July 21st, 2010

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I’m really curious to see how Microsoft and Yahoo merge their two independent PPC systems.  Account transitions are slated for October and from what I understand all Yahoo accounts will be converted over to Bing AdCenter accounts. This means your AdCenter account will not be affected but if you have a Yahoo Search [...]

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Shailesh Ghimire on May 4th, 2010

Tip O’Neil said “all politics is local”. Well, all search is going local as well. Being visible on Google local map searches is very important. The first step is of course to submit your local business listing to Google’s Local Business Center (LBC) . But what if you have multiple locations? It can be very [...]

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Shailesh Ghimire on April 8th, 2010

Bid management is not as critical as it used to be and I’ve made this point many times with clients. But you don’t have to take my word for it anymore. Jason Tabeling over at Search Engine Watch recently wrote an excellent article on why bid management is not as important as it used to [...]

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Shailesh Ghimire on April 7th, 2010

Content Nazi Cartoon by HubSpot, originally uploaded by HubSpot.
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It’s been crazy busy around here the past few weeks and for good reason. The whole thing came to a head over the past few days.  Because in the last two days I launched all 21 videos for Sabdamala.com to hundreds of prospects.  So, in the last 48 hours I had to coordinate a free [...]

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Shailesh Ghimire on February 16th, 2010

Following up on my earlier post “Optimizing Your Pay-per-Click (PPC) Campaign – Part 1″, today I will focus on placement bidding, landing page targeting by keyword and managing the content network. In case you missed the original post I discussed geo-targeting, the search query report and, effective day-parting.
Placement Bidding – The natural inclination of every [...]

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