SEM for Everyone
Getting high in search rankings
Everyone wants to see the view from the top. Leonardo DiCaprio’s “Titanic” character Jack wanted to be the king of the world. Frank Sinatra wanted to get to the top of the heap in “New York, New York”. You, as a traffic-conscious publisher, would like to get higher on the Yahoo! Search listings. Who wouldn’t?
We’ve blogged about this before (here and here). But now, the Yahoo! Store blog has posted one of the most comprehensive—and entertaining—search engine marketing (SEM) intros I’ve seen so far. Written by Rob Snell, author of Starting a Yahoo! Business for Dummies, this guest post concentrates on how to use that holy grail of SEM, the converting keyword phrase.
Take a gander. It’s well worth the click.
—Michael Mattis, Blog Editor
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December 12th, 2006 at 9:35 am
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January 5th, 2007 at 11:32 am
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