Landing Page Bloopers and Best Practices

I’ve harped on the issue in the past, PPC ads that go to landing pages that make no sense or are horrible for the user.  Ion Interactive had a webinar today entitled “Landing Page Bloopers and Best Practices” which illustrated this point very well.  The number of these mis-matched PPC ad to the landing pageContinueContinue reading “Landing Page Bloopers and Best Practices”

PPC Advertising Needs to keep the User In mind

Why are retail PPC advertisers still sending clicks to their home page for specific terms? It is frustrating as a user to search for a product and find an ad that looks like it is exactly what I want and then when I click on the ad the page has nothing to do with what I searched on! As a PPC marketing manager I find it infuriating to see these retailers wasting their money and all those click thrus…

The end of Meta-Keywords

For years the meta-keyword has been on the way out but now the final large search engine to still use meta-keywords for page ranking has dropped it. Yahoo Drops The Meta Keywords Tag Also announcement that Yahoo is following the crowd and dropping the Meta Keyword tag. But this doesn’t mean that keywords aren’t important anymore. Keywords are still important, optimizing landing pages for specific keywords is still very important.