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By: Pay-per-Click Display URLs, A Tale of Free Traffic | Web Analytics Remix

Pay-per-Click Display URLs, A Tale of Free Traffic | Web Analytics Remix — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:11:32 +0000

[...] of said behavior until I uncovered a bunch of these as 404s in my log data. For whatever reason (lack of trust, privacy concerns, etc) people seem to be copying and pasting the Display URL instead of clicking [...]

By: diseño web

diseño web — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:07:53 +0000

Both they are very necessary and they must go in line together like part of a marketing strategy. At the outset he is recommendable to use PPC to obtain immediate results, while the positioning in finders works.

By: credit expert

credit expert — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:06:09 +0000

credit expert…

Great site – lots of different points of view!…

By: Janice

Janice — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:10:26 +0000

Thanks Jeff for sharing results of this survey. Interesting and greatly informative. I have stopped PPC recently and working harder for SEO results instead.

Merci for the Free report as well.

Cheers,

Janice

By: Stef

Stef — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:53:20 +0000

Hi Jeff,

Your newsletter taught me how to make a comment on your blog, so her I am

If I want to buy, any description that completely answers my call to buy will be clicked on SERP 1 or 2.

If I want info, the organic results must be really irrelevant for me to click on an ad.

Cheers,

Stef

By: Do Users Trust Organic Or Paid Results More On Search Engines? : Natural Search Blog

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:17:01 +0000

[...] process on a daily basis etc. These are of considerable interest to online marketers though. A good video on which this post is based can be [...]

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:37:16 +0000

Sponsored ads are the AdWords ads on the right hand side and sometimes on the top.

Natural results are what shows up when you type in keywords – the main part of the listings.

Jeff

By: Bhuvaneswari Calambakkam

Bhuvaneswari Calambakkam — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:40:27 +0000

This research was simple and i think it means that people trust what comes up through their keywords on Bing etc. Am i right? Is that what natural results mean?
And does sponsored ads mean content ads or text ads on MSN yahoo & google?

By: Jeff Mulligan

Jeff Mulligan — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:42:37 +0000

I wouldn’t take this research as a reason not to invest in PPC. That’s still a viable source of traffic and sales. All those billions are coming from people who are mostly making money on PPC ads or they would be doing less of it.

It does point to another benefit of SEO and ranking well. It’s important for anyone to understand the basics and especially avoid SEO mistakes.

Jeff

By: Sensei J. Richard Kirkham B.Sc.

Sensei J. Richard Kirkham B.Sc. — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:35:53 +0000

Didn’t know about the research Jeff. One more reason not to give Google my money

Mahalo

Rick