Month: April 2008

Now you can put on spidey glasses and see just what the search engine spiders see when they look at your web page with this online tool.

This tool is valuable as you will be able to see if the code you have in a show-hide layer is visible, if you have the spacing set up properly in your navigation, and what a spider sees right when they hit your page. If you did not think that keyword density was important, you will after you review your results.

All a spider sees is text! Now here’s the test, what does the spider see on a Flash site? Nothing! Enter in http://www.katybar.com in the tool. Then visit the site, you will see that all the spider has indexed is the text that has been added below the Flash image.

Thinking about pay per click, make sure to really give Yahoo Sponsored Search strong consideration. Some clients may even want to start with Yahoo. If you do, you will still get good traffic and your conversions may actually cost less. Find out more about advertising on Yahoo at our post at Blog-World Watch.

Read our post at Blog-World Watch about why you should consider advertising on Yahoo Sponsored Search. We’ve found that you can expect about 1/2 of the conversions that you are currently getting with AdWords on Yahoo, but you will pay less per click.

Have you considered expanding your pay per click advertising onto Yahoo? A natural progression for a mature advertising program is to expand services onto Yahoo after success with Google AdWords.

Yahoo Search commands 28% of the search market which makes advertising on Yahoo important, but even more than that is that the demographics and buying habits of Yahoo users is different than those using Google.

We have found that some advertising programs will do better on Yahoo than on Google. On the average we have found that whatever conversions you are making on Google you will typically make about 1/2 of those on Yahoo, but you may pay significantly less on Yahoo per click than on Google.

For some clients, we recommend starting with Yahoo instead of Google. If you will be doing your own account set up and management, Yahoo is a much better place to start than Google AdWords. Yahoo is fairly easy to manage, caters to a self-managed market and has easy to use account and keyword tools, and still gets great results.

If you have not thought about expanding to Yahoo, now’s the time to consider moving into that arena.