When it comes to your advertising dollar, you always want the most bang for your buck. Here discuss are some things to consider.

1. Where should you spend your
Search Engine Marketing budget?
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2. When it comes to your advertising dollar, you always want the most
bang for your buck.
Google has long been a favorite, dominating the market and practically
commanding every dollar of your search engine marketing budget.
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3. It has been true for so long that many companies don’t even bother
with the competitors, but is that a wise decision?
• Lets take a look at how the market breaks down.
• According to comScore.com (and everyone you talk to ever) Google is
still dominating the scene, commanding a whopping 66 percent of the
search market.
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4. • As of July 2012, the Microsoft owned engine was pulling 15 percent of
the market.
• Just behind Bing is the steadily falling Yahoo, dropping again to wind
up third with 13 percent.
• Ask and AOL are bottom feeding with 3 and 1 percent respectively.
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5. • Looking at the numbers, it’s clear that Google still commands the bulk
of your search engine marketing budget, but thats not to say it needs
ALL of it.
• Yahoo is on it’s way down, but still has some small (and shrinking)
merit.
• Bing is rising though, and deserves at least a piece of your attention.
Here are some things to consider:
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6. Bing is newer, and smaller, so it’s easier to get onto the first page.
• Google is saturated with advertisers and it can be difficult for a small
business in a big field to get any recognition.
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7. Bing users are a different demographic.
• While Google is all over the map, Bing tends to be much more
heavily used by the 25-54 market.
• Think of it this way, fans of MSN are Bing users.
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8. Bing is standardizing their advertising based on Google.
• What this means for you is that the same copy and bids you use on
your Google ads will transfer seamlessly to Bing, with no need to
change text length or bidding strategy.
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9. Finally, Bing and Yahoo are forming an advertising alliance.
• With one account, you’ll be able to advertise across both engines,
effectively reaching about 30 percent of the market.
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10. Ultimately, there are obviously no shortages of places to spend your
advertising money.
• You may be temped to go with only Google for simplicities sake, but
take the chance and diversify, you just may be surprised by the
results.
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11. Need help crafting an SEM strategy?
Contact Wikimotive for a free evaluation and advice on how you can
best spend your marketing budget.
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About Wikimotive
Wikimotive is dedicated to providing the latest automotive SEO, Social Media
Marketing, Facebook Marketing, Search Engine optimization techniques and online
marketing best practices and services. Wikimotive was conceptualized in 2009 and
founded the following year by its President, Timothy Martell. Beginning as a Search
Engine Optimization service focused on the automotive industry, Wikimotive has
grown quickly; now servicing numerous verticals and providing a broad range of digital
marketing services to its clients. Wikimotive’s mission is to provide comprehensive
digital marketing solutions to auto dealerships and businesses of all sizes.
Wikimotive’s slogan is, “No Contracts, No Commitments, Just Results.” At Wikimotive
we do not want to provide clients with only the expected results.