The Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association (AiMA) held their monthly meeting last night. The topic of the night: recognize the value of online marketing efforts beyond the simple click to conversion metrics that are so common in our industry. The truth of the matter is search is responsible for much more business than it gets credit for in traditional models, it’s extremely important as a branding tool and it can be used as a powerful tool to track offline marketing efforts.
The dynamic keyword insertion tool for adwords is a great tool for managing large amounts of diverse keywords within an adgroup. For those of you who are not familiar the keyword insertion tool allows you to place a code combined with a generic keyword into your ads. This combination results in the actual keyword the searcher was searching for appearing in the ad. This has been proven to help with click-through-rates because searchers respond more to seeing the exact phrase or word that they typed in.
The seminar was coming to a close and the speaker opened the mic to the crowd of about 200 for questions. The questions were excellent, forcing the presenter to clarify his point as it related to specific situations, and uncovering details that were touched on from a high level. No one left their seat as questions kept coming, and then the moderator abruptly ended one of the best Q&A sessions I’ve experienced.
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