Finding Placements Training

by Shelley Ellis on July 23, 2010

COMING IN AUGUST…

Want to know where the REAL opportunities in the content network are hiding? The places where you have the most power and the most control over who sees your ads? Want to know how those $50K and $100K a month accounts are tapping into the highest quality, most targeted traffic in AdWords?

The SECRET is with Placement Targeting!

Managed placements is one of the most popular methods for utilizing the Google AdWords Display Network because it gives you the MOST control over bidding and where your ads are shown.

Finding Placements will explore over a dozen different strategies and tools to help you locate the most targeted and profitable placements…and fast.

Stay tuned for more information and make sure you are opted into the free newsletter, The Content Network Pulse, for more information.

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iPhone App Marketing

by Shelley Ellis on July 21, 2010

Simple…easy ways to market your new phone application in this new video.

Last week, I had the opportunity to talk with several people about app-vertising and all new opportunities for advertising on smartphones and iPads. One of the areas I have been really impressed with is the development of phone applications that are both practical and branded. Of course, one of the challenges after creating a new iPhone application is how to promote it.

One of my conversations last week centered around all the “fun” ways to market a new product. What I discovered in my research was that sometimes the most simple methods for marketing a new mobile application are completely overlooked.

These are some of the concepts I cover in the video:

SEO for the new phone application

  • consider using underutilized search words like “how to” or “how do”
  • take into account all the keyword variations: iphone, phone, mobile, smartphone, app, apps, application

Paid Search for the new application

  • don’t forget to bid on the name of the application and all the variations

Links on the home page for the new phone app

  • this could be as simple as a navigation link
  • consider an image or text with a call to action to have them download the app today

The ability to find the apps from an internal site search

Banner advertising in the Content Network (this company was effectively using retargeting but only in a generic way)

These principals go beyond just marketing a brand new phone application! They go for any new project launch.
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-Shelley Ellis

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Some of My Favorite Books

June 24, 2010

These are some of my FAVORITE  content network and PPC books!

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Google Content Network -NOW- Google Display Network

June 18, 2010

Google has been making so many changes so quickly over the last 5 months that I can hardly keep up! That’s great news because it means new features and reporting in the content network (oops…I mean display network).
I wanted to give you the heads up that on Monday I will be sending out a survey [...]

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Check your AdWords account from your iPhone, Android or Palm

April 13, 2010

If you’d like information from your AdWords account streamed to your mobile phone, it’s now easy to do: Just direct your Android, iPhone, or Palm Pre to:
http://adwords.google.com/dashboard/Dashboard
(You have to be logged in to your AdWords account first.)
You can customize the information reports from your desktop computer first, and get the exact information you want sent [...]

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Limited Bonus for the Advanced Content Network Boot Camp

April 11, 2010

What if I could give you a visual map of the Google content network? A beautifully done, visual perspective of how categorization works on the content network. Trust me, you’ve never seen the Google content network like this!
Well…I’m GIVING mindmaps of the Google content network away!
The Advanced Content Network Boot Camp kicks off Wednesday, April [...]

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Avoiding “Ad Fails”

March 27, 2010

I was reading an article this morning about 23 amazing ad fails and it really bothered me that so many companies still don’t know how to avoid “most” of the possible embarrassing ad situations on the content network.
The content network has a number of ways for you to control where your ads are shown or [...]

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Below the Fold in Google’s Content Network

March 20, 2010

Google just announced a new option for content network advertisers called “below the fold”. If you want to keep your ads above the fold, this new option allows you to “opt out” of “below the fold” ad distribution on the AdWords content network for both content targeting and placement targeting. I walk you step by [...]

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Google Content Network CTR’s – What Should You Expect?

January 29, 2010

One of the most commonly asked questions about optimizing content campaigns is “what is a good click through rate?” The short answer…well…it depends. Your click  through rate is going to vary based on:

your account structure (keyword themed or placement targeted)
the types of sites you are targeting (general or targeted, top domain or specific pages)
the ad [...]

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Contextual Advertising 2010 Blog

January 18, 2010

A LOT has happened in the content and placement targeting space since my last email blasts.  I promised I would kick off a fresh new newsletter, blog and YouTube channel in 2010 so this newsletter is the first of many to come. *Preview* – I’m working on a video kick off where I show off [...]

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