Thursday Roundup 2/14/2008
Official Blogs
AdWords
Introducing the Google Business YouTube channel – This is awesome. Great videos and good, solid advice.
adCenter
Revisions to Microsoft adCenter Terms and Conditions – Decent Q&A regarding the changes in adCenter’s Terms and Conditions.
Favorite posts from the people/bloggers/companies we admire (alphabetical) -
Aaron Wall’s SEO Book.com
The Kinds of Search PPC Arbitrage That Are Not Dying
Future Now’s GrokDotCom
The Cost of Leaving Hispanics Lost in Translation – I’m excited to note that I am reading more and more about advertising in other languages and bringing down the barriers to advertising to an International audience. Great post – a “must read”!
Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog
Love Your Landing Pages – Webinar Recap – I enjoyed this webinar (I was only able to attend half of it) and found a lot of excellent ecommerce landing page tips and hints being tossed around.
Search Engine Land
AdWords + Video: Video Ads Come To Google Search Results – Lot’s of buzz surrounding this topic. I have to add my name to the slew of pros that have not seen a video ad in the search results yet…
Search Engine Roundtable
Long Tail Searches Are Becoming More Mainstream – I thought this was very interesting (“must read” this post). Long tail queries, for the first time, have gone from an average of 3 words to 4 words.
Invesp
So how do you create personas for your site? – Personas is another buzzword this quarter…great post and especially relevant for ecommerce advertising/site optimization.
the PPC Book
The Design Quagmire – A worthwhile read on how taking small, deliberate steps to implement design changes can be better than a major design overhaul. There are always outliers though – I am good friends with a major design company that consistently performs major ecommerce overhauls and the results are always in the triple digits regarding sales growth after the overhaul.