Official Blogs

AdWords

Groundhogs, Seasonality, and Trends – I am a huge fan of Google’s Trend tool…and it looks like we will have six more weeks of winter!

Yahoo! Search Marketing

New Year, New System Upgrades – A nice big list of useful upgrades coming to Y!SM.

adCenter

Get Keyword Fit: Keyword Expansion Tips to Get the Best Out of Your adCenter Keyword List – Keyword expansion is a very important tactic for improving and increasing your ROI; this is almost a must read post.

Favorite posts from the people/bloggers/companies we admire (alphabetical) -

Conversation Marketing

15 Principles of Internet Marketing – I keep think that I’m sick of lists…then a good, simple, quick one is posted like this one – I thoroughly enjoyed blazing through these 15 principles and found myself agreeing with all of them!

Search Engine Land

Two Approaches to Determining Intent: The Wisdom of Crowds and Personal Values – I love this quote: “the holy grail of search is to disambiguate intent”…it’s true, it’s true!

PPC Hero

Take Advantage of Search Cycles with Ad Scheduling – Ditto…and I’m glad they mentioned time zones – sometimes we see Pacific Coast clients with East Coast time zones because of the default in Google and we have to schedule accordingly.

Clix Marketing

Dear Microsoft: Please Use Panama – EVERYBODY blogged about the MSN bid to takeover Yahoo! but I have to say this is one of my favorite opinions on the subject of combining ad platforms if Yahoo! accepts the bid.

the PPC Book

Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right – Another ditto from me. I think Microhoo! (MSN/Yahoo!) might be good because I think it will make it easier for paid search advertisers to capture 90% of the market with 2 different platforms instead of 3…Microhoo! will face a lot of adversity if they try to compete directly with Google.

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