Search Marketing Archives - Page 2 of 5 - Bryan Eisenberg & Jeffrey Eisenberg

You’re fired, laid-off, downsized, terminated, made redundant, rightsized, pursuing other opportunities, discharged, dismissed, pink-slipped. Search Engine Marketing professionals are becoming redundant, replaced by technology, so they should prepare themselves to hear those words. In the next 3 years, 80% of PPC professionals will be replaced by an algorithm. Those that won’t, will be the few who already provide high value or find ways to increase their value to clients. There will simply be fewer positions and high value change. If…

The CMO’s Marketing Analytics Optimization Framework

Bryan Eisenberg

Big Data Marketing, CMO, PPC, Search Marketing, Strategy, web analytics

In my last column, I shared recent research about how CEOs have lost trust in CMOs’ ability to be focused on business performance. Hopefully, when asked how your company currently measures its digital initiatives you don’t get an answer like this (LOL, well done Adobe): Seriously, the issue is that most analytics frameworks don’t tie all essential marketing metrics back to financial statements. We have been preaching about how this needs to be done since 2001. I suspect, that I…

Conversion Optimization 101: Perfectly Persuasive PPC Landing Pages

Bryan Eisenberg

Ad Continuity, Content Marketing, Conversion Rate Optimization 101, Landing Page, Landing Page, Lead Generation, Personas, PPC, Scent, Search Marketing, Web Design

Last week, in our Conversion Optimization challenge we looked at the following PPC ad: and the corresponding landing page (image capture below): How would you optimize the ad and the landing page? My general guidelines for marketing with landing pages: Start your marketing with your landing page and ask yourself how it answer your personas’ questions and needs. Then choose an ad or email that would make them want to click and see that page. 7 Steps to Persuasive Landing Pages Step…

Conversion Optimization 101: PPC Landing Pages

Bryan Eisenberg

Conversion Rate Optimization 101, Customer Experience, Landing Page, Optimization, PPC, Search Marketing

This week’s Conversion Optimization challenge is to look at a PPC ad I found on Google for the search term “SEO Management Software.” Here is the ad I clicked on: and here is the landing page (image capture below): How would you optimize the ad and the landing page? Is this the best ad and landing page based on the intent and buying stage for the key phrase? What things would you like to test here? *Update: For how we…

The Must Have Big Data Tools

Bryan Eisenberg

Big Data Marketing, conversion rate, Optimization, Personalization, PPC, Search Marketing, Tools

In the column, “Claiming your Unfair Advantage, I describe four types of “Big Data” tools. Before I elaborate on these tools, I want to share a lesson from my friend Mark Huffman of P&G. When Mark joined the world’s largest advertiser in 1984, it was all about data analysis. “In God we trust,” one P&G marketer told him, “all others bring data!” Today, Mark is executive production manager at Procter & Gamble and is responsible for all integrated marketing. At…

Who Contributed the Most to Google’s Earnings in 2011?

Bryan Eisenberg

Advertising, PPC, Search Marketing, Trends

How to Go From Suck to Unsuck

Bryan Eisenberg

marketing keynote, Optimization, Search Marketing, Speaking

Your website sucks! Your mobile experience sucks! Your competitor’s website and mobile experience suck too! Guess what? My site sucks too! As is often the case when I speak, I tell the audience that their website is like a leaky old bucket with traffic falling out the holes. I let them know we all know their website sucks and mine does too. However, when speaking at ConversionNation (formerly Fusion Marketing Experience) in Antwerp, I was politely shown by my friend Joost de Valk how…

ROTS: Return on Time Spent

Bryan Eisenberg

Search Marketing, Tools

Marketer’s are always losing battles to time. Time is all you need to get everything done and to be most effective marketer possible. Marketing operations are more complex than ever before and the demands on our resources are constantly increasing. We need to identify solutions that help us get the most bang for the buck; because we aren’t about to get 25 hour days any time soon. Marketer’s who were lazy and had poor corporate metabolisms were the ones most…