{"id":384,"date":"2008-04-08T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=384"},"modified":"2008-04-08T06:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T11:23:00","slug":"yahoo-sponsored-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2008\/04\/08\/yahoo-sponsored-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo Sponsored Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>We have found that some advertising programs will do better on Yahoo than on Google. 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