Is Search a Channel for Brand Building?

Many conversion-driven businesses have long integrated search marketing and search engine optimization into their marketing mix. With great success as search engine marketing offers some big advantages for advertisers:

Low divergence-losses, the searcher already knows what he wants. Desire doesn’t need to be created, the user already has it. The result is that the budget can […]

Presentation at AmCham Taipei

I gave a speech about Internet marketing in Asian countries at a luncheon organized by the American Chamber of Commerce Marketing & Distribution Committee in Taipei, Taiwan. I talked about online marketing channels like search engine optimization (SEO), keyword advertising (SEM, PPC) and social media (blogs and online communities). In the following you can find […]

PPC / SEM China: Search engine marketing and China keyword advertising, PPC China

A keyword advertising (also called SEM, search engine marketing, PPC, pay-per-click or paid search) campaign is the quick way to get on page one in the Chinese search engines. All major search engines in China offer the advertising channel PPC / SEM – although there are some differences between Baidu, Google and Yahoo. The idea […]

Chinese search engines: Comparing Baidu and Google

As in many other countries as well there are a lot of search engines in China but only a few have a relevant market share. These are especially Google and Baidu, and Yahoo to a minor part. Unlike to most other countries in the world, Google is not the market leader in China, in fact […]