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Search Engine Advertising: A Brief History

By Andrew Goodman
In Measurement & Analytics, Methodology
October 17, 2019

Keyword advertising is now in its 20’s. Some brief history. A lab is born The first company of significance to ever offer keyword-targeted ads appearing near Web search results was a search engine called Open Text, in 1996. In 1999, a leading search engine – AltaVista – did the same amid predictions that their greed would drive them out of business. (It wasn’t...

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Why “The Science of PPC”? Why 50 Parts?

By Andrew Goodman
In Advanced Features, Measurement & Analytics, Methodology
October 10, 2019

In the many friendly sales conversations I’ve had with prospects over the years, I’ve occasionally been asked to cite three things that make our agency stand out from others. In my mind, I’m thinking: “Three? How about fifty? How long do you have?” And now, I’ve just said that out loud. It’s put-up-or-shut-up time. So, how do real pros...

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About the Author

Andrew Goodman is Founder & President of Page Zero Media. His accomplishments include writing the first-ever full-length book about Google AdWords, heading up this Google Ads Premier Partner agency, maintaining a string of 48 consecutive speaking engagements at Search Engine Strategies in North America, co-founding a startup called HomeStars, and wearing the dickens out of a lab coat at the SMX Advanced session called Mad Scientists. His active lifestyle requires increasingly elaborate bowls of yogurt. He works from the Toronto office as well as a home office in Fredericton, NB.

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