10th November 2008

ThumsUp for PPC

Every single company or person who is providing any kind of service should go for PPC. PPC advertisement is a form of advertising where advertisers pay for visitors on cost per click basis. These ads appear at the top, right or bottom of SERPs of search engines that display organic rankings also. PPC advertising is Definite,Flexible and Low Risk.

Surely, one can run a newspaper ad or TV campaign and hope people who are interested in your product.

PPC campaigns campaigns gives immidiate results and ona can also edit or delete the advertisement. PPC advertisement is an effective and can easily implemented.

You can run a PPC campaign with Google AdWords, or Yahoo Search Marketing, or MSN AdCenter, and show your ads to precisely those people who are already looking for your product or service!

Advertisers are free to choose language for their ads. PPC directly focused on the exact type of customer you want for a business. You are paying each time someone clicks on your link.

The big advantage of the PPC program is speed and quantity of targeted traffic.

PPC is the game of keywords. Only bid for keywords that attract targeted visitors that are interested in what you have to offer.

Pay per click offers a high level of assurance that your campaign is reaching the proper target. What makes them so effective is that someone who has searched for your product is already qualified when they come to your site, which is selling the product or service they are looking for.

Today there are a number of interesting search programs that include PPC advertising and are well worth taking a look at because they are capable of providing the perfect solution for many online marketing and advertising problems.

Without constant monitoring, you sometimes risk incurring advertising costs that can spiral out of control, focusing on terms that don’t convert well for your product or services or lose out during a bidding war.

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7th November 2008

Secure your Joomla! Website

Joomla! Web Security is a new book from Packt that provides a concise overview of all the parts needed to construct and implement strong security measures for their Joomla! website. Written by Tom Canavan, this book teaches developers to secure their website by setting up an SSL and implementing disaster recovery features and using real-world tools to protect against hacks on their website.

Joomla! is one of the most powerful open-source content management systems used to build websites and other powerful online applications. While Joomla! itself is inherently safe, misconfigurations, vulnerable components, poorly configured hosts, and weak passwords can all contribute to the downfall of a website. This book will help conquer all these limitations and will show how to secure a website from security threats.

Users will be introduced to a strong approach to security. The book starts by showing users how to choose the right hosting sites and then moves quickly into implementing steps to securing the website and servers. Users will also learn about the harmful effects of SQL Injections and how to prevent them.

Through this book, users will explore several tools to help protect their website, handle security incidents, block nuisance IP addresses, and master the two important security layers - php.ini and .htaccess. Users will learn why security vulnerabilities exist and how to measure security by setting up metrics.

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6th November 2008

Search Vs. Display Ads? Why Not Use Both?

How About Search Ads AND Display Ads

Many online advertisers continue to struggle with the decision to use either search engine advertising or display advertising. Google AdWords, Yahoo Search Marketing, Microsoft AdCenter and the like, or good old fashioned banner displays. Both offer valid reasons, and each outperforms the other in different areas.

Why Not Use Both?

Perhaps you should consider using a combination of the two to truly get the most out of you campaign. There is a common belief that search engine advertising delivers a better return-on-investment, but according to Matt Lillig of the Yahoo Analytics Team, a combination is more likely to do so. He says that advertisers just aren’t measuring display ads in the best fashion. He writes on the Yahoo Search Marketing Blog.

Specifically, many advertisers primarily use conversion percentage to measure the success of their display ads and search keywords. For example, if a display ad converts poorly (it has a low conversion percentage) then the advertiser typically lowers the budget for the ad, shifts the budget to another channel like search, or pulls the budget entirely.

The problem with only using the conversion metric method is that it is a “last click” metric. “Last click” means that the ad only gets credit for the last click the visitor made before they converted. For display ad and search keyword purposes, a last-click model doesn’t reveal the true value of the ad. For example, a display or search ad wouldn’t get the credit for driving conversions to other campaigns. This can be a major issue, as advertisers might end up cutting the budget on an effective display campaign that is driving additional conversions, brand awareness and increased visitor traffic to your web site.

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