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You likely invest in corporations. As an investor, you try to identify precisely how you are to gain a return on your investment and have some idea of what that return should be.Do you realize that the corporations that you invest in have no way to do the same when they use the money you have invested. Corporations do not have a fundamentally strong means to plan and manage the return on their investments, from initiation through to measuring the return. So corporations rarely really invest, they either spend or speculate.Many corporations approach investor funds as money to spend rather than considering use of the funds as an obligation to gain a return on the funds used. The money simply disappears into normal operations.Even when corporations attempt to invest in capital development and growth, they face difficulties because they are not structured to plan and manage investments. They cannot identify the precise points that benefits are produced to build up the ind

>Adwords Account Statistics:

Following are the statistics for every adword account google has; One can set up 25 campaigns in every account. Each campaign can have up to 100 adgroups in it; with each adgroup capable of having up to 750 Keywords in it. The overall limit on any account is 2000 keywords.

Adwords offers four kinds of Keyphrse matching namely: Broad, Phrase,Exact & Negative. Recently, Google has introduced expanded matching for its broad matches. More on this later.

It lets you target your ads to specifically 14 languages, 250 countries or 200 states /regions in US. Google claims 99% accuracy for its IP tracking system to deliver the ad effectively to the target audience.

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With the recent 'Florida' update on google & its impact on the SERPs, typically on the commercial search phrases, it has become imperative that we now examine paid advertising scenario at google. For scores of merchants, now paid advertising will be the only way to help them salvage their holiday sales, as also future revenues. This will be a two parts article, with the first part focusing on the google paid advertising space & the second part on the best practices thereof. However, before we start on googles adwords & adsense programs a word or two on online advertising industry performance in 2003.

Online Advertising Industry:

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), the online advertising industry sales have been robust this year with three consecutive quarters of growth witnessed for the first time in last two years. Lets first look at the yearly sales figures for last three years. Online advertising climaxed in 2000 with $8 billion in revenue (dot com boom) before declining to $7.1 billion in 2001, and $6 billion in 2002. This year in the first three quarters, the sales have been estimated at a healthy 5.07 billion (up 13% from the same period last year). The break up of the quarterly sales figure is as under:

The first quarter sales have been at 1.63BUSD

Second quarter is pegged to have clocked 1.69 billion (up 14% from same quarter last year)

Third quarter is estimated to have done 1.75billion.( 20% growth from this quarter last year)

From figures the emerging pattern is towards keyword based text ads gaining popularity.

According to IAB, out of the 6bUSD figure of 2002, 15.4% (or roughly 1 billion) can be attributed to Search term related sales. This is up 200% from the figures of 2001.

The contribution of search term related ads has been estimated to 31% of the second quarter figures. No break up for third quarter figures is however available. Financial firm Salomon Smith Barney expects the estimated $1.4 billion market in 2003, to grow 30 percent to 35 percent per year, reaching $5 billion by 2008.

This Advertising space is dominated by two major players (obviously): Google & Overture.

Google Adwords

Google has two services for its paid advertisers. Adwords & Adsense. Lets start with Adwords.

This is a program run by Google in which it lets the advertisers bid for a chunk of the real estate on the search engine results page related to specific queries. The ads appear as "sponsored listings/premium listings" next to the organic search results. Along with getting exposure at the googles own site, these ads are also syndicated at Google's partner sites like: America Online, Inc.,Ask Jeeves ,AT&T Worldnet ,CompuServe ,EarthLink, Inc. ,Netscape ,Sympatico Inc. etc.

Currently, Google is supposed to have approx 150,000 monthly advertisers for its paid placement services.

Adwords Account Statistics:

Adwords offers four kinds of Keyphrse matching namely: Broad, Phrase,Exact & Negative. Recently, Google has introduced expanded matching for its broad matches. More on this later.

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Adsense Ads On Your Site Can Be Used To Make Your Visitors Go Click Crazy
Adsense ads that frequently appear on your blog or site can be used to dramatically increase the number of clicks happening on your site.Here's how. Start by carefully studying the Adsense ads that have been generated at your site. You can carefully make notes, jotting down the main headlines and keywords used.Always remember that it is absolutely critical that you do not under any circumstances whatsoever click on the Adsense ads on your own site because that is click fraud and the nice guys at Google will not hesitate to act swiftly and disable and probably delete your account forever.Use the information you have gathered to generate content that uses the same keyword phrases and similar headlines. When the content is posted on your site, many people who read through them and when they spot similar Adsense ads next to your content, they will tend to click on them. The fascinating thing about people when they click on those Adsense ads is that they don't seem to be a

ustry sales have been robust this year with three consecutive quarters of growth witnessed for the first time in last two years. Lets first look at the yearly sales figures for last three years. Online advertising climaxed in 2000 with $8 billion in revenue (dot com boom) before declining to $7.1 billion in 2001, and $6 billion in 2002. This year in the first three quarters, the sales have been estimated at a healthy 5.07 billion (up 13% from the same period last year). The break up of the quarterly sales figure is as under:

The first quarter sales have been at 1.63BUSD

Second quarter is pegged to have clocked 1.69 billion (up 14% from same quarter last year)

Third quarter is estimated to have done 1.75billion.( 20% growth from this quarter last year)

From figures the emerging pattern is towards keyword based text ads gaining popularity.

According to IAB, out of the 6bUSD figure of 2002, 15.4% (or roughly 1 billion) can be attributed to Search term related sales. This is up 200% from the figures of 2001.

This Advertising space is dominated by two major players (obviously): Google & Overture.

Google Adwords

Google has two services for its paid advertisers. Adwords & Adsense. Lets start with Adwords.

Currently, Google is supposed to have approx 150,000 monthly advertisers for its paid placement services.

Adwords Account Statistics:

Adwords offers four kinds of Keyphrse matching namely: Broad, Phrase,Exact & Negative. Recently, Google has introduced expanded matching for its broad matches. More on this later.

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... According to Erikson, each stage has a development task and a person should resolve this task before he can move forward to a next phase ... Alexander writes: "Consider the case of a young couple and their new born child. The child “depends” on the parents to give the care and love that is required to resolve the conflict of trust that goes with infancy. But simultaneously, the child gives the parents the experience of raising and bearing, which helps them to meet their conflict of generativity, unique to adulthood."This is why Alexander -- an Architect -- uses this theory of Erikson to establish his community pattern. A community pattern is to solve a community problem; “make sure that the full cycle of life is represented and balance in a community.” Because people will (have to) meet the conflict of their stage when they are confronted with people of other stages ... “Babies control and bring up their parents, as much as parents bring up their children.”

illion.( 20% growth from this quarter last year)

From figures the emerging pattern is towards keyword based text ads gaining popularity.

According to IAB, out of the 6bUSD figure of 2002, 15.4% (or roughly 1 billion) can be attributed to Search term related sales. This is up 200% from the figures of 2001.

This Advertising space is dominated by two major players (obviously): Google & Overture.

Google Adwords

Google has two services for its paid advertisers. Adwords & Adsense. Lets start with Adwords.

Currently, Google is supposed to have approx 150,000 monthly advertisers for its paid placement services.

Adwords Account Statistics:

Adwords offers four kinds of Keyphrse matching namely: Broad, Phrase,Exact & Negative. Recently, Google has introduced expanded matching for its broad matches. More on this later.

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Overture.

Google Adwords

Google has two services for its paid advertisers. Adwords & Adsense. Lets start with Adwords.

Currently, Google is supposed to have approx 150,000 monthly advertisers for its paid placement services.

Adwords Account Statistics:

Adwords offers four kinds of Keyphrse matching namely: Broad, Phrase,Exact & Negative. Recently, Google has introduced expanded matching for its broad matches. More on this later.

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Basic Fraud Prevention for Internet Merchants
This article talks about a very important issue for Internet merchants . . . preventing online fraud. Most of the attention in the press surrounding online fraud is focused on consumers…whether its having their credit card numbers stolen by hackers or being suckered into giving their personal and financial information by a phony email phishing scam. But barely any attention has been given to the other side of the coin…the Internet merchants who are defrauded by crooks posing as legitimate consumers.One of the first things you need to do as a merchant to prevent fraud is to always verify who the consumer is. On card-present transactions, this can easily be done by asking for a valid photo identification card, for example, a driver's license or state issued ID card. On card-not-present-transactions, this is a much more difficult task for the merchant to accomplish.There are two basic steps that every online merchant should follow to ensure that the consumer is legitimate.<

>Adwords Account Statistics:

Adwords offers four kinds of Keyphrse matching namely: Broad, Phrase,Exact & Negative. Recently, Google has introduced expanded matching for its broad matches. More on this later.

Recent Features on Adwords:

Google has added three new features to its adwords campaign in October. Those are:

Conversion Tracking

Expanded Matching

Increased Click Through Threshold

Conversion Tracking:

Google has introduced a conversion tracking feature for its advertisers, wherein they can now track the conversions resulting from their advertisement traffic. This conversion tracking helps the advertisers by quantifying the ROI they are achieving with their campaigns.

This feature works by introducing a cookie on the user computer whenever someone clicks on an advertisement. This cookie is connected to the conversion page if the user reaches there. If it is matched, google records a successful conversion.

Expanded Matching:

As a part of its broad matching of keywords, Google has introduced a 'smart' feature called expanded matching. With expanded matching, AdWords system automatically runs ads on highly relevant keywords, including synonyms, related phrases, misspellings and plurals, even if they aren't in the original list of keywords that you submitted with google.

For example if you keyword is 'software development', google system will try & guess alternate searches to display your ads on. Some examples are 'software solutions' or 'software services' or 'technical solutions'. Over time, it will monitor the click through rates (CTR) for these searches & 'learn' the relevance of these searches for you. This will help it make expanded searches more specific. Also, based on its mining the search queries, it will be able to develop fresh combination of search terms which will be relevant to the business.

In an effort to let you know what are the keywords it will look to broaden your exposure to, google has for the first time put out a Adwords keyword suggestion tool:

https://adwords.google.com/select/main?cmd=KeywordSandbox

This tool highlights the googles view of what other terms, it 'understands' to be relating to your business. (Tip :This tool works well for broad searches.)

This theme based adwords tuning, is in sync with googles trend of trying to understand 'available content' & 'user queries' & make 'intelligent matching' of the two.

Increased Click Through Threshold

The increased click-through threshold is designed to help ads that may have struggled for traffic due to poor search relevance. These include those related to contextual ads as well.

Now for evaluating the Account performance evaluates each account after every 1,000 ad impressions. If the CTR for the account falls below a minimum required CTR (which varies by ad position, geography etc but is 0.5% for the top spot and slightly reduced for each subsequent position) the ads will only be displayed occasionally for under performing keywords.

Google Adsense:

Google AdSense is an offshoot of the Google Conte

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Running a business gets so demanding, that we often can't see the wood for the trees. We become preoccupied with ensuring that everything in the business works the way it is supposed to. In other words, we spend most of our time working in the business.

Article describing the challenges and illustrates the importance of merging marketing and creative strategy. Intended to educate marketers on the importance of focused and appropriate creative.

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