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  • Keyword Quality Score – SEM Minute

    Maintaining a high keyword quality score is vital to improving your pay per click campaigns. Watch as Mike Hernalsteen, Online Marketing Specialist from LoSasso Advertising, discusses the value of achieving high quality scores for your keywords.

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  • PPC Account Structure – SEM Minute

    In this latest episode of the LoSasso SEM Minute, interactive marketing specialist Mike Hernalsteen discusses the importance of account structure in your pay-per-click advertising account and how a well organized account can help you deliver the most relevant ads to your target audiences.
    Mike Hernalsteen is the Senior Interactive Marketing Specialist at LoSasso Advertising Inc., a [...]

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  • Bing Launches Visual Search

    While text search is a great research tool for searchers who know the name of the term they are researching, it isn’t as helpful to searchers who are unsure about the exact terminology. Bing’s new Visual Search is a great feature for these users.
    For example, you were walking through the city last Saturday and saw [...]

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  • How the Recession has Accelerated the Shift from Traditional Media to Online

    Recently eMarketer published a study that indicated that among small and medium sized business, 36.8% of their advertising budget is allocated to online advertising. Year-over-year that is up from 22% in August 2008.
    2009 has been a year of budget cuts for many businesses, so it is important to note that the year-over-year increase is almost [...]

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  • Online Video is Changing Consumer and B2B Marketing

    A recent study done by eMarketer reinforces what we have been observing for a while now – online video is not only rife with opportunity, but it is growing on a strong curve.
    While this survey was obviously focused on consumer marketers, I believe the opportunity is even more important to underscore with business-to-business (B2B) marketers. [...]

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  • Page Title Optimization and Best Practices – SEM Minute

    In episode 3 of the LoSasso SEM Minute – the short-segment video series featuring search marketing tips and techniques – online marketing specialist Mike Hernalsteen discusses why Page Titles are important for both SEO and brand management online.
    Mike Hernalsteen is the Senior Interactive Marketing Specialist at LoSasso Advertising Inc., a Chicago based interactive agency where [...]

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  • SEM Minute Part 1 – SEO and PPC

    Here is part one of the new LoSasso SEM Minute video series, episode titled “SEO and PPC”. This is a brief intro video about a few basic SEO and PPC factors. As the series progresses, we will be discussing many search industry issues ranging from questions like, “Do meta descriptions matter?” to “does PageRank sculpting [...]

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  • Compete.com put together a Slideshare presentation discussing the online media trends of 2008. Compete calculates and estimates total U.S.-based traffic for nearly every site on the internet.
    Online Media 2008
    View more presentations from CompeteBlog. (tags: search 2008)

    Here are some of the key takeaways:
    There were 116 billion search queries in 2008 (up 8% over 2007).
    Google now commands [...]

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  • Like most years, the beer commercials are going to rule the much-anticipated Super Bowl advertisement extravaganza. This year, one company in particular is taking the competition to another level.
    With the economy in the middle of a recession, Miller Brewing Co. has decided to forgo purchasing a 30-second commercial spot that would cost them up to [...]

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  • This morning, our company received an email from an SEO service concerned about our search engine ranking.
    The search term in question (“marketing interactive”) allegedly listed us at position 5 on page 31 in Google’s search results, and the only way we could improve these results was if we used their back-linking service. A colleague of [...]

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