Posts Tagged ‘London’

OMG Twitter is down!

Thursday, August 6th, 2009 by Matthew Phelan

Social networking website Twitter went down today for users in London @ approximately 14:52 according to SEO Executive Hannah Miller. At the 4Ps Marketing HQ this gave us some time to contemplate the comments made on BBC2 (Newsnight) last night by Evan Williams, the co-founder of Twitter.

Evan Williams stated that London beats all other cities when it comes to Twitter usage. As an SEO agency based in London we often find that this gives us an advantage as we can tap into the vast resources of online marketing professionals. This seems to be reflected in Twitter usage within the UK capital. So is London the tech hub of Europe or do we just love to Twitter!?

Top 5 PPC Tips From PPC Agency

Thursday, June 11th, 2009 by Matthew Phelan

1. Be Negative…

Negative keywords can help divert unwanted traffic, so you don’t appear for search terms that are not relevant to your product or service. This will help reduce costs and filter traffic which is unlikely to convert.

2. Be Relevant

Use the same keywords (in the same format) in your ad creative. Then make sure that keyword appears again on your landing page (again in the same format). This will mean your visitors will not lose the ’scent trail’ to finding what they want.

3. Organise your Keywords

When keywords are separated into the appropriate adgroups they can have a much more effective AdCopy. For Example: "Womens Denim" and "Womens Jeans" should be two different AdGroups. When keywords are grouped into appropriate adgroups the AdCopy will be more relevant to the keyword list and help you better track the results. This can also increase your quality score and ranking whilst keeping costs low.

4. Switch Off Content Match

When creating new campaigns on Adrowds or Adwords editor remember to switch off the content network. The content network can be deactivated from the campaigns level, click on the "settings" tab and under the Networks and devices column click through and un-tick the "content network".

5. Campaigns for Content

People that click on Content Ads are typically not searching for a specific product or service and are generally not in the mindset to convert. If you must be on the Content network, it is definitely best practice to create a separate campaign and dedicated adgroups. make sure to separate the AdGroups: One AdGroup for Search This way it is easier to track the performance from search and content of each campaign.When creating campaigns it is important to note that brand or competitor names, as keywords are ineffective and should not be used.

If you require any more information in regards to the Pay Per Click services we provide at 4Ps Marketing, contact us at marketing@4psmarketing.com

Web traffic & RMT strike

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 by Matthew Phelan

Being a London based SEM agency gives our agency many advantages

• Many of our clients are on the door stop
• We can attract the top SEO & PPC professionals
• When we take the team out we have unlimited night spots to choose from

Tomorrow RMT have decided to strike which will obviously have an impact on the number of workers in central London due to London tube system being shut down.

The planned RMT strike for tomorrow does raise an interesting traffic issue that we often discuss internally. Web traffic in London will undoubtedly be down for our b-t-b SEO & PPC clients if the strike goes ahead. This is the same on bank holidays, Christmas & other public holidays. From a search perspective it is important for us to record these events so that we when we have our monthly client meetings we can report this back.

The more macro events that we record in turn helps us explain more micro events within SEM.