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Range Online Media Search Ad Buyer’s Forum – SES Chicago 2006. Search Engine CPCs Plummeting!!. Studies indicate CPCs are trending miraculously backwards!! Google Goes Non-Profit! Gravity Reverses! Search Marketers Take Weekend Off! Michael Richards is…. N-OT!. CPCS Are Rising!.
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Range Online Media Search Ad Buyer’s Forum – SES Chicago 2006
Search Engine CPCs Plummeting!! • Studies indicate CPCs are trending miraculously backwards!! • Google Goes Non-Profit! • Gravity Reverses! • Search Marketers Take Weekend Off! • Michael Richards is…
CPCS Are Rising! • RAISE YOURE HAND IF YOU THINK THIS IS TRUE…
2007 Planned Advertising Tactics • Search is part of the plan in the next 12 months.
So more advertisers are spending more online… Jupiter Figures for Paid Search: JUPITERRESEARCH INTERNET ADVERTISING MODEL, 10/06 (US only)
Just Friendly Competition? It’s true, search marketing is no longer a secret.
There are only so many keywords and searches for all of those new dollars, right? • It will cost more to find a seat in this game.
Dimension • Unless, of course, the search engines can add new dimension to this graph…
What else could be driving up our costs? • Click Fraud? • Targeting Options? • Re-Targeting Options? • Optimization Tools? • Algorithmic Changes? • Distribution Changes? • Format Changes? • Affiliates?
Impact of Affiliates on Brand Keywords Brand and Rising CPC Case Study: Financial Services • Direct & Affiliated Competition • An inflated brand CPC can relate to competition in the market and low CTR performance. • Normal Scenario • 30,000 click per week • Average brand CPC is $.06 • Competitive bidding pushed the CPC to over $0.15 • 150% increase in cost week over week • $2,700 per week in additional spend Optimal Gap
Panama? • What does Panama mean to you? • Brand advertisers rejoice? • Non-Brand? • Find efficiency outside of bid optimization • Are your bid tools about to become irrelevant? • Get your creative testing ready • Get your landing page optimization going • Reconsider how you measure your return • Coordinate search with other marketing channels • Wait and see with the rest of us…