“The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” This could have, perhaps should have been the title of this blog post. Last week, the YSM Blog discussed their Conversion Only Analytics and the inclusion of their new Assists metric. At...
Continue Reading Yahoo! Search Marketing, Conversion Counter and Chicken Little – Oh My!
Well, some people think so. Search Engine Roundtable shared this comment from a Web Master World forum discussion: “My CTR since May 16 has fallen through the floor. I assume this is because of the new short description policy.” After...
Continue Reading Is Yahoo!’s New Ad Text Length Policy Hurting Advertisers?
We’ve recently been asked a question regarding ad URLs: “Hi, I’ve been using Google Adwords and MSN Adcenter for a while and have decided to have a look at yahoos PPC offering, now all seems ok, except it doesn’t seem...
Continue Reading Display & Destination URLs: Make sure they are fraternal twins
Even though we have been managing accounts within Panama for the last five months, we are still acclimating to Yahoo!’s new interface – as I’m certain most online marketers are still trying to gain their bearings as well. Recently we...
Continue Reading 4 Ways to Enhance Your Performance in Yahoo!’s Panama
The advent of Yahoo!’s new Panama interface has been a great improvement over its predecessor. However, one piece Yahoo! chose not to include was access to their international network via a single account (much like Google does). As such, we...
Continue Reading Setting Up an International Yahoo! PPC Campaign
Within the old Yahoo! interface, users were allotted one ad text and it could contain up to 180 characters. Every keyword was assigned a title, a description, and a destination URL. In Yahoo’s new interface, Panama, ad groups, keyword groups...
In the world of search, the primary competitors are Google and Yahoo!, and no matter what the situation is, one is always trying to out-do the other. The most recent resurgence of this on-going power struggle is Google’s retaliation to...
Continue Reading Light Sabers at the Ready! The “Empire” Is On the Move.
Yahoo! notified advertisers this week of system updates that will be taking place this Friday and Saturday (March 30th and 31st). As is standard practice with system wide updates, the Search Marketing platform will be ‘frozen’ during the following times:Friday,...
Continue Reading Yahoo! Performing System Updates This Weekend
Of all the great strides that Yahoo! has made in simplifying keyword management, they missed a big step in the process with Panama: They took away the ability to move keywords with historical data. Within the Panama interface, it is...
Continue Reading It Ain’t Easy, but You Can Move Keywords in Panama
I don’t know if any other international PPC agencies, or individuals, have received their notification, but we received our first one this morning: Yahoo’!’s Panama is coming to the UK! The migration letter is the same one distributed to US...
Within the old Yahoo! interface, users were allotted one ad text and it could contain up to 180 characters. Every keyword was assigned a title, a description, and a destination URL. In Panama’s ad groups, keyword groups are served with...
Continue Reading The Long and Short of It (Ad Text Lengths within Panama)
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