Wellwoman - The Morning Show Advertorial - AIGDirect.com.au/wellwoman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2NixIwAZ40

Wellwoman TV Commercial - www.aigdirect.com.au/wellwoman

Our New Campaign for AIG Direct - WellWomen Insurance! See Channel 7 The Morning Show from 10:02 am tomorrow the 27/3/2013.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrH9pipIi58

B2B MARKETING

The annual B2B Marketing Benchmark Report details the performance of the primary sources of traffic to B2B websites. The report is an analysis from over 62 million visits, 215 million pageviews and 350,000 leads from more than 600 small and medium-sized B2B websites.

The Results:
• Google is the single most important referring domain to B2B websites, responsible for over 36% of all visits.
• Social Media is still a smalla fraction of traffic and leads to B2B websites, contributing on average less than 5% of all traffic and leads.
• Email shows high engagement rates as well as strong conversion rates with an average 2.9% lead conversion rate.
• Paid search usage showed a constant decline among B2B marketers in 2012. Over 10% of companies in the report discontinued their paid search campaigns during 2012.
• Twitter is the strongest social media channel for generating leads, outperforming Facebook and LinkedIn 9-to-1 with 82% of social media leads coming from Twitter.

Organic Search is the #1driver of traffic to B2B websites, followed by direct traffic (40%) and referrals (11.50%). "Despite the increased adoption of social media by B2B in 2012, it's still only a fraction (1.90%) of total traffic to B2B websites."

Cycle from Springwood NSW to Darwin for Youth Homelessness

Marc sadly leaves behind his wife and children whilst he was trying to help thousands of children through Mission Australia to put a roof over their heads.

Here is the news report: 
http://au.news.yahoo.com/video/nsw/watch/a0caa4ec-5d03-3641-bcea-b7a8aa2fa2ac/p-plater-kills-cyclist-on-m4/

We felt it important to make a comment about Marc and his goal in training so hard and being so giving to homeless children! Please click and read Marc's website and discover why Marc was on the M4!

We write this with great respect and humility as a record of a great life lost.

In loving memory of Mark, please give generously to A ‘Home’ without a roof is not a ‘Home’

http://www.everydayhero.com.au/hero_pages/view_posts/marcsimone

Scott McCorkell

M&a’s take on PPC & Search Engine Marketing

Pay per Click (PPC) or Cost per Click (CPC) advertising is one of the most cost effective and measurable ways of driving qualified traffic to your website and when managed correctly, can effectively maximise return on investment (ROI) for minimal cost.

When a searcher types specific keyword (for example ‘SPORTS shoes’) into the search box on Google, Bing or Yahoo!, a listing of results appears underneath.   These results fall into 2 listing types, in particular ‘paid’ and ‘un-paid’ listings.

On this article, we will discuss the specificities of Paid Advertising (i.e. PPC Advertising). 

PPC ads work on an auction model where you submit bids for keywords based on what you are willing to pay for a click. 

If you are new to search marketing, it is important to note that the actual cost of a click may be lower than what you are willing to pay/bid on a keyword or a keyword phrase.  This is because search engines reward quality ads.  The more relevant the ad copy is to the landing page; the more relevant the ad and lower the advertising cost or CPC.

Let’s first have a look at how search marketing works.

Consider the keyword phrase “Sport shoes in North Sydney”, for example.  The search engines (based on their individual algorithms) will allocate a quality score to each ad that wins the bid for this keyword phrase.  The position of the ad is then determined by the bid that you specified for the keyword multiplied by the Ad’s quality score.

Every search engine has its own algorithm for determining the quality of ads that are displayed.

Here is an example that explains the basic principle.  Every search engine has their own specific way of ranking ads, however, the basic principles apply to all major search engines.

Here you can see the different CPC bids that companies A to D were willing to pay for the same keyword phrase “sport shoes in North Sydney”.  In this example, company B was given the number 1 Ad position even though, all the other companies were willing to pay more for a click on their ad.  This is because:

• Company B won the 1st position because their ad was given a quality score of 9 and when multiplied by the Maximum bid, the result is 27 (which was the highest score for this example)
• 2nd position was given to Company A’s ad.  This was because their ad generated the 2nd highest quality score of 20.  To determine how much Company B was going to pay for a click, the search engine looked at what the company at the 3rd position was willing to pay.  It then lowered the CPC of Company A to $3.99 which is 0.01c lower than what Company B was willing to pay.
• Company D was willing to pay $6.00. Since its quality score was the lowers, the ad was put in the last position.

The actual ad positions for this particular search query will display the ads as follows:

Hopefully this article has given you a bit of insight into Search Engine Marketing and how to effectively managing PPC campaigns.

At M&a we have a unique approach to managing PPC campaigns with clear and transparent management fees that cover all areas of data driven optimisation including Keyword Research, Ad Design, Bid Management, Reporting and Recommendations.  Our approach to PPC strategy begins at the initial stages of briefing where we integrated ultra-specific landing pages into our web builds that are optimised specifically to ROI objectives and specifically to the campaign objective. 

Visit us at http://www.mccorkell.com.au/