Mobile devices are playing a larger and larger role in the life of a paid search marketer and it is projected that a quarter of all paid clicks on Google will come from mobile devices by the end of the year. That’s basically a 500% increase from the beginning of 2011! Silently but surely, Google has a mobile product portfolio readied for the burgeoning mobile search market.

This wouldn’t be such a big deal if all you had to do was make sure that high-end mobile devices are enabled for your campaigns. However, you and I (and everyone else with a smart phone) knows that searching on a mobile device is a vastly different experience than searching on a desktop.The format of the results page is different. The keyword is different. User intentions are different. Competition is different. And ... > Read more

To Bing or not to Bing, that is the question – for countless advertisers who are considering whether to advertise on Bing (and Yahoo!). The pros are pretty clear. Advertising on Bing gives you access to roughly 30% of the search market. If you play your cards right, that’s 30% more impressions. And 30% more clicks.

To top it all off, costs per click (CPCs) on Bing tend to be a little cheaper than AdWords, so advertisers can potentially get a higher ROI on their PPC spend.Now I know what you’re thinking – more impressions, more clicks, better ROI –there has to be a catch right?And there is.In order to access Bing’s share of the market you need to set up a separate account on Microsoft adCenter. This means you need to have new campaigns, new ad groups, new keywords, new ads and n... > Read more