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WARNING: Beware of Click Fraud

Imagine Google sending you an AdWords bill that is three times what you were planning on spending for the month on your pay-per-click advertising campaign? Unfortunately this is a terrifying reality for some small businesses due to click fraud. Click fraud is a deceptive and dirty technique that can end up costing companies and entrepreneurs thousands of dollars and their online reputations.


Google’s First Social Media Foray to Shut Down

As of September 30th, Google will shut down its first social-networking service, Orkut, which was launched in 2004 the same year that Facebook, which is the most popular social media platform in the world was founded by Mark Zuckerberg.


“AdWords: It’s Just not Intuitive”

I hear this every so often from some of my clients, a sense of desperation when attempting to deal with the Google Adwords system. And while I don’t think Google set out to make navigation of the system difficult, on the contrary, I believe they attempted to make it as accessible to everyone as possible, I understand why it would seem this way to many clients.


Beat Your Competitors Online. Get ready, set, go!

Google is an ever-changing landscape of innovations and methods for businesses to promote their goods and services – but how do you keep up? What happens when your competitors start utilising these avenues before you? The key is to look before you leap. Just because it’s new, doesn’t mean it’s for you. Here are a few things to consider when doing market analysis for your online advertising strategy.


What Is A Result In SEO Terms? Part 5 – Maintenance

An unfortunately common misconception amongst those who engage in SEO is that it is not an ongoing concern. Too many people think that once you rank, you rank. This is simply not the case.


What Is A Result In SEO Terms? Part 4 – Rankings

Fiction #1: The more rankings the better. Fiction #2: Rankings = Business. Perhaps I should clarify here a little. The above points don’t have to be fiction. But whether or not they are depends entirely on you.


What Is A Result In SEO Terms? Part 3 – Leads

A successful SEO campaign is like a bus full of customers. But while that bus can drive customers to your store (website), what happens once they get there? Are they able to get the service they need right away? Do they have all the information they require? Is what you offer clearly laid out?


What Is A Result In SEO Terms? Part 2 – Conversions

Let’s dive straight into Part 2 by defining a couple of different types of conversions. Generally from an SEO standpoint I tend to use the word conversion to mean lead, so an email or phone call which is a direct result of the SEO work. This is when a potential customer searches a keyword, finds
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The Latest in AdWords Conversion Tracking via WordPress

WordPress is one of the best CMS platforms out there. It is free, easy to use and has a plugin for just about everything (you can get WordPress from here). One of the most popular Form Builder plugins is Contact Form 7. It is very customisable, and can handle multiple forms, supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA
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Having Definitive Online Marketing Goals

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” -Tony Robbins Online marketing is not magic. There is no switch to flick that creates success. If there was we’d all be jet setting across the globe in our private Airbus A380s. As in life, online marketing requires hard work, discipline, dedication.
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