The race between online display advertising and paid search ads to acquire ad dollars (and advertiser attention) is heating up. “A new report”:http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3550221 from JupiterResearch is predicting that paid search revenues will “outpace” display advertising by 2010.
With its pay-for-performance model and reliability where delivering a positive return on investment is concerned, we all knew search engine advertising was going to be huge. There’s some concern, however, that advertisers are relying too heavily on their paid search campaigns. The pay-per-search industry (as it was once known) got its start supporting display campaigns, after all; if banner placements were the jabs thrown at a fellow boxer for show, then the paid search placements were the uppercut that ensured a knockout performance. Increasingly, though, advertisers are forgoing display ads, choosing instead to rely almost entirely on the more dependable search variety. Is this a wise decision?
Year: 2005
Does search engine optimization matter when you are doing a viral marketing or teaser ad campaign? Absolutely! One Degree and the “Uncle Yaris” TV ads give us a textbook example.
Because “I wrote about yaris.ca”:http://www.onedegree.ca/2005/09/27/toyotas-quirky-uncle-yaris a few days ago, we’re getting a ton of search traffic right now on the terms _Uncle Yaris_ and _Yaris.ca_
I find it truly ironic that I wrote “they’re from Toyota as a simple Google search will tell you” and now that page itself is the top result:
Google will redirect you to the site if you search on yaris.ca, but Yahoo shows this:
And MSN puts One Degree at the top of an Uncle Yaris search as well:
One of the nice things about all this “Web 2.0” stuff is that we get some new problems to solve.
Let me outline a problem that’s been bugging me for a while now that was brought top-of-mind by “the launch of Google Blog Search”:http://www.onedegree.ca/2005/09/14/google-blog-search-now-live a few weeks ago. I’ve also got a possible solution I want to put out there for feedback.
Here’s *the situation*: