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Sometimes to make a point, it helps to use examples from other industries. Today, to help explain PPC ads, I’ll borrow an example from a legal description of real property. Have you ever tried to read a township, range, and section legal description for real property? Or find one on a map? At first glance, these...
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After being in central Austin for 9+ years, TopSide Media has moved to Round Rock Texas. Our new address: P.O. Box 27 McNeil, TX 78651 From our new location, TopSide Media will continue to provide top notch search marketing and PPC management services to clients in Austin, Round Rock and nationwide.
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While driving traffic from search engine ads to our advertisers’ websites, we get to learn a lot about our clients and related issues that arise. One issue we see far too often is confusion about what part(s) of their website our clients own vs. unknowingly “rent” from a third party. This can happen to any...
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Most previous TopSide blog posts cover technical features of search engine marketing or measuring of phone calls from web traffic. Although one idea in this blog came from a technical tool we use in online ads, negative keywords, you’ll find today’s post different. Rather than a technical article, today’s post is a combination of observations...
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Starting today, June 6, TopSide Media is being featured on the Member Spotlight for the Microsoft Advertising Accredited Professional program. On their website, an Accredited Professional will be featured each month. To visit our profile, you can use the following URLhttp://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-in/topside-media-bing-yahoo. Note: the original article was removed, and the link goes to a subsequent article...
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If you scroll through our previous blog posts, you may have noticed that they tend to be informative more than rants. Lately, though, we’ve run across a series of vexing challenges and delays getting routine, but necessary tasks done on the websites of clients. In our work, the school of hard knocks is always in...
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At TopSide, we like to keep the big picture in mind, but break complicated search marketing topics down into bite-size pieces. In today’s blog, I’m going to do a brief drill-down into inbound links to websites. Before doing that, I’ll provide a bit of background. The category of inbound links comprises a major part of...
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In a blog in April of this year, I wrote about automated search marketing platforms and questions to ask providers. In today’s post, I’m going to briefly compare/contrast two types of automated platforms: bid management platforms and what we’ll call budget based platforms. We’re going to stick to how they work, what they do (and...
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Driving highly targeted traffic to your website is a critical step, but the landing page still has to convert that visitor to a lead or new customer. We recently helped one of our PPC clients whose online business was being adversely affected by slow page loading on their website. Their case could be useful to...
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Recently we rebuilt and launched a PPC account for an Austin client that had over 3,000 negative keywords. In our 5+ years of search marketing, this was a record at TopSide. The research and collaboration with our client on negative keywords was very productive, and took about as many days as all the other components...
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