Independent search and content marketing firm Covario says that second quarter spending on pay-per-click advertising (PPC) by its enterprise technology, B2B, consumer electronics, and retail clients rose 21 per cent above the second quarter of 2013 and 2 percent ahead ...
Read More »Charles Soon of Covario: why Baidu is just the start for online search marketers in China
Most search analysts know of Baidu as “the Google of China” and associate the same importance with Baidu that Google has in the US. This equivocation is understandable since it is easier to relate the unfamiliar to the familiar, but ...
Read More »PJ Fusco: why search engine marketers need to change
Search engine marketing has changed since we first started tinkering with content found in search engines and directories more than 16 years ago. To be certain, online marketers still have to focus on implementing fundamental tenets of search engine marketing. ...
Read More »Aaron Wester of Covario: how to understand the brave new world of multi-device optimisation
Vinton Cerf, the chief Internet evangelist for Google, said in a conference once, “So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.” ...
Read More »Russ Mann: why being found, friended, followed and forwarded is the key to smarter web content
Russ Mann is CEO of leading independent search agencies Covario and Rio SEO. Covario is the only agency to win the OMMA’s Search Agency of the Year award twice. Media buyers and digital marketers are familiar with first- and third-party ...
Read More »Russ Mann of Covario: your old-style website is dead – long live smarter content!
Russ Mann is CEO of leading independent search agencies Covario and Rio SEO. Covario is the only agency to win the OMMA’s Search Agency of the Year award twice. In theory, most brand marketers have it all wrong. Most brand ...
Read More »Why smarter content is the key to moving search marketing from its medieval era to the space age
Russ Mann (left), CEO of search marketing consultancy Covario, explains how brand marketers can produce smarter content and track it accurately around the internet. Is your content as “dumb as a box of rocks,” or is it deliberately designed to ...
Read More »Former McCann global boss Nick Brien surfaces at search agency leader Covario
What will Nick Brien do next has been a live topic since he quit as McCann boss last year (or was quitted by IPG CEO Michael Roth) and now old Nick has re-emerged – as a director of and investor ...
Read More »Another quirky Guinness film from AMV/BBDO, Facebook and why does Google News hate us?
After a long and challenging week (with not that much going on) it’s nice to get a new ad from Guinness and agency AMV/BBDO. Guinness advertising has left me bemused for years; I now see that the famous Jonathan Glazer ...
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