Category Archives: Search Engine Marketing

5 Bad Words: What not to say in destination marketing

Delicious Next time you read a food review and come up on the word delicious, stop reading. Mouth-watering, too, mostly because it’s a gross visual, but it’s also as nondescript as delicious. Good food writing is specific: The Thai chilies … Continue reading

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Analyzing & Optimizing Search Engine Marketing

So now you’ve started to cut your teeth with search engine marketing. You have pay-per-click ads running on Google and maybe some ads running on Yahoo! and Bing. You’re successfully driving traffic to your website. The next step in this … Continue reading

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The Basics of Search Engine Marketing

Imagine your favorite band is putting on a free concert. You know their music better than anyone, but the crowd at this free show is overwhelming. It seems impossible that you could ever fight your way through the mess and … Continue reading

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Online Display: Think Beyond Clicks

Destination marketing has never been an easy endeavor, but there was a time when it was less complicated. Now it requires distinct but interlocking strategies for print, online, mobile, social, and public/media relations. More than that, it takes a superhuman … Continue reading

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SEO vs SEM

Numerous studies have shown, and a glance at the behavior of your site’s visitors broken down by source will probably corroborate, that traffic from search engines is among the best you can have, if we measure quality by engagement and … Continue reading

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