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Easy ways to save money and get better ROI for PPC marketing campaigns

Monday, December 27th, 2010

Many small businesses use Pay Per Click advertising to reach millions of prospective customers every day. Google is by far the most notorious and successful PPC advertising channel for small and large businesses alike, because the search giant successful allows for long tail distributions in advertising online, which places a premium on quality. Google did not invent PPC, but their refinements to the method has allowed for advertisers of all sizes to compete equally and necessarily for a huge customer market based on search and content interests.

Quick and easy ways to save money on ad campaigns:

  • Use negative keywords to filter out unwanted searches. If you are selling custom, advanced web design for example, you may not want to attract uses looking for cheap web design, because they are not the right fit for your approach. Instead, you can remove your ads from searches that contain specific keywords, which you can define at the AD level or at the CAMPAIGN level. In the ad editor, simply add a minus sign before any keyword in your keyword list. One example from the above scenario  would be to list "-cheap" or "low budget" in your keyword list to exclude such searches and reduce the cost of your campaign by making your campaign more relevant to searchers.
  • Try to build a better Quality Score for your PPC campaigns, by listing your product keywords within the ad title and on the ad landing page. Remember, your ecommerce or content landing web page is critical to the success of your marketing campaign.
  • Remove or modifying poorly performing ads.
  • Test your ads using A/B tests to better understand the needs of your users. Using an A/B test, you can create subtle landing page differences that may influence a user's behavior. You can have your web designer create new landing pages for your A/B tests as well to better understand how different approaches to design influence the behavior of users or shoppers.

New Web Design Directory Offers Free and Low Cost Submissions

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Design Portal US is a web design and graphic design directory that is launching with a promotional offer with free and three low cost advertising options. The basic plan provides a free page for your design company and link, while the paid options provide better visibility and status plus great SEO benefits. The web design directory will feature companies from the US only and provides all advertisers with an individual web page to help with SERP resentation.

Visit: Web Design Portal US

HTML 5 Status And Why Is It So Important

Friday, June 11th, 2010

HTML 5 is the next major revision of HTML--the core language for web design.

Why do we need an upgrade to HTML?
The goal of HTML 5 is to reduce the need for proprietary plugin-based technologies like Flash and Sliverlight (rich internet application (RIA)). The complaints against such plugins are that they have longterm security flaws, cause a drag on processing power which in turn reduces battery life for mobile technologies and more.

What would be one example of a real world and everyday benefit for HTML 5
Besides the complaints about battery life being drained by plugins such as Flash and the long term security flaws. One of the very exciting benefits for HTML 5 would be the ability to embed video natively on a webpage and apply customization to the native video element. Also, HTML5 introduces a number of new elements  and attributes that will help to modernize this core coding language and provide lots of very exciting new functionality, without having to rely on Flash. Some of these elements include: <audio> and <video> and <canvas>.

There are lots of other improvements in the works. For a complete list of improvements please see the WWC: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html

Web designer New York launches

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

Welcome to webdesigner-newyork.com!

We would like to celebrate our opening as a New York City based website design and company company operating under Ironpaper, Inc. We are based in Brooklyn NY in the Bushwick / Williamsburg area.

Our areas of focus include:

  • Web design and graphic design for web
  • Web development and programming
  • Content management
  • Search engine optimization (SEO)
  • Project management for web-based projects