Sessions at SES San Francisco 2011 about PPC on Tuesday 16th August

The competition is fierce in paid search! From small in-house accounts to ones with millions of keywords, it's the NEW advances in SEM technology that might just make the difference between success and failure. Are there tools you could be using right now to help double your conversions, lower your costs, or save your team hours of time every week? At this panel, top paid search tool vendors will showcase their latest features in bid management, campaign workflow efficiencies, and reveal what the future holds for the industry.

Paid placement is a form of search advertising that provides a top ranking in return for payment. Every major search engine offers a paid placement program. Learn what's available in this session that is especially geared toward beginners, with details on programs from major providers and advice on how to succeed.

Advertisers have been paying billions of dollars for clicks in search engine advertising platforms for years. With an array of new targeting options (display ads, new ad formats, remarketing, Facebook, etc.), it's an important time to prioritize how you analyze PPC campaign data and act on it. In PPC, the job of an analyst is not to come up with obscure statistical nuggets, or to nitpick on small points. Rather, the analyst should be nimble, tightly aligned with business results, and capable of moving smoothly between fine details and core business drivers. Which metrics are worth your time? What new tools and reports are useful? Which will waste your time? Is it time to step up your use of campaign automation? How can you build a better dashboard to help synthesize multiple campaign efforts? And if there is an Occam in the audience, will he please identify himself and come forth with his Razor, so we can answer all of these questions in one hour or less?