Removals to Spain

Now here is a subject that many of us will know having moved to Spain.

How to find the right company for removals to Spain

There is a huge choice of removal companies claiming to offer the best removals to Spain or the cheapest removals to Spain but how do you know who to choose?

Well like anything else research is the key.

Take a look on the Internet and conduct a few searches for terms like 'removals to Spain', 'Spanish removals', 'furniture removals to Spain' etc. and make a note of the removal companies that appear each time.

Once you have conducted a few searches see what companies keep appearing the most for each search both on Pay Per Click (the sponsored results) as well as the organic search results.

Note:
People bid to appear on the sponsored listings which is known as PPC. See our PPC Management Services for information

The 'organic' results are the natural positions which are usually gained via a marketing method known as Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). Here are Artemis we specialise in SEO in Spain and throughout Europe.

Now of course this is not an indication of how professional the removal firm is but it gives an idea of how much they plough into their marketing. This in turn normally gives a good idea of their 'professionalism' and whether they would be a good bet to contact.

Remember with things like removals to Spain, the cheapest is NOT always the best.

Ask for testimonials.
Ask for references.
Get clear concise quotes.
Ask whether any extras will be added to the quote.
Find out what insurance cover they have for YOUR goods.
Get more than one quote.

After all of that you should get a good feel for which company you should use for your removals to Spain.

Here at Artemis we are working with a professional, family run removals company offering expert removals to Spain, France and Portugal to and from the UK

See www.elite-european.com for details.

Jobs in Spain | Recruitment Agencies Spain

It is always nice to work on an account that is in a market sector that is very competitive within the search engines. That is why here at Artemis Internet Marketing Spain we were happy to win an account in the highly competitive jobs in Spain sector.

There are a growing number of recruitment agencies in Spain so it was a nice challenge to take on one of these companies and help promote them in the Search Engines.

We are very pleased with early results as SERPS seem to be getting better for a growing number of keywords.

In our opinion it is far better to get positions for a number of targeted keywords so that the website appears for many more searches as well as the core keyword.

Recruitment Agencies Are on the UP

It is true that many more job hunters in Spain are turning to the experts to help them find suitable and reliable employment. With more and more professionals leaving the UK and setting up home / businesses in Spain there is a much larger role for a recruitment agency.

Traditionally job hunters in Spain turned to the local papers for a list of suitable jobs, and whilst this is still a popular and effective method, you will not really find the higher management and executive jobs as many businesses now employ the services of a recruitment agency to help find them the ideal candidate.

This means that more recruitment agencies in Spain are turning to the Internet to both promote their services as well as finding applicants for the jobs.

As more do this it becomes far more competitive to rank these websites in the top 10 positions in search engines like Google. For this reason recruitment agencies in Spain are turning to professional Internet marketing companies like Artemis for help in both achieving and maintaining good web positions.

Property Management & Key Holding Services Spain

Here at Artemis Internet Marketing we are all excited about one of our newest clients, Overseas Keys. They provide an invaluable service to property owners by offering professional property management in Spain and Key holding services in Spain. They are one of the first to be able to provide a key pick up and drop off service at the airport as they are there day and night.

Being part of the co-operative travel they already have a solid reputation in the overseas market and we are proud to be working with them on their Internet marketing.

For more information about Overseas Keys Spanish Property Management & Key Holding services please take a look at their website http://www.overseaskeys.com/

Google Adwords Lesson 1

Artemis Internet Marketing are one of the leading companies in Spain providing effective Internet Marketing in Spain and overseas for a growing number of clients.

Our philosophy is quite simple. We explain things in plain English and provide realistic targets and expectations. We firmly believe that as long as we do what we say we will do (often exceeding these expectations) we will develop a long term relationship with our clients.

The following post is lesson one in setting up an effective Pay Per Click advertising campaign. To be honest all of the information below is on the Internet if you have the time and dedication to researching the subject. We hope that the lessons that appear here will give you a head start with advertising your business online.

Remember for the most effective results you need to monitor and tweak the adverts on an ongoing basis. That is where we can help as we offer Pay Per Click Management services in Spain

That aside whether you want help or not the following lesson will guide you through step one of setting up an effective PPC campaign.

Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising Lesson One

Keywords
Whatever product or service you want to advertise you need to know what keywords people will use to find your services (or products) online. Many will be common sense but you want to make sure you capture as much TARGETED traffic as possible.

We use the word TARGETED as it is one of the most important factors in keeping your AdWords costs down whilst receiving the best quality visitors and leads.

If you have an Italian restaurant in the middle of Estepona you would not want to use the keywords "Italian restaurants Spain". Yes you will more than likely get far more traffic by using it but only a small percentage will actually be potential clients in your area or about to visit your area. The same goes for property. If you only sell property on the Costa del Sol it is a waste of money and your time to have the keyword "property for sale Spain". You will get people looking in Costa Blanca, Madrid, Valencia etc. and not be able to help them. YOU would have paid for the click but with no chance of getting the business.

Research suitable keywords

There are some tools to help you with this, although none of them are fantastic, they will give you an idea of the most search terms. The best one seems to be wordtracker but it is not free. Try it here. It is however one of the best and most used tools by Search Engine marketers to research suitable keywords.

Take a look at what your competitors are doing. See what words they appear for and do the same.

Adding your keywords - Do you broad match, phrase match or exact match?

This is an area where the majority of people not employing a PPC management company fall down. Google has various options available for your keywords.

Broad Match - this means that if you enter the words Luxury Italian Restaurant Estepona your advert could potentially appear for any of the words or any combination of the words i.e. luxury restaurant, marbella restaurant etc. It could also appear for any other words tagged on to the search query such as luxury restaurant France, or Italian restaurant central London.

If your business relies on a certain geographic or sector do not use broad match as the quality of visitors will be lower and you will spend your budget much faster

Phrase Match - this gives you more control over what searches your advert will be found for. To use phrase match you simply insert your keywords inside speech marks. So now the term "Italian restaurant estepona" will only be returned if all words are within the search query i.e. restaurant estepona, Italian estepona etc. It also allows for words to be added in the search phrase i.e. good Italian restaurant in estepona, cheap Italian restaurant estepona etc.

Exact Match - this is used to ensure your advert ONLY appears for the keywords you want it to. To exact match you place your advert within square brackets. So the term [Italian restaurant Estepona] will ONLY appear for that exact search. The Search Italian restaurants near estepona will not appear when using exact matching.

You can of course be clever when creating your keyword list but you will need to understand a little more about Google AdWords. You can include negative keywords. This means that by adding a minus symbol - to the front of a keyword if a search has that word in it, your advert will not appear.

For example using the following negative words means that if any of the following terms are included within a search, your advert will not appear.
-marbella
-puerto banus
-property
-takeaway

In the next lesson we will take a look at creating effective adverts and landing pages.

In the meantime, if you have any questions about PPC advertising please feel free to ask

Noticed your Google AdSense revenue take a nose dive?

Upon talking to a number of colleagues and associates that run Google AdSense in their websites the common factor appears to be the same, revenue is down.

Why?

Well to be honest there are a number of possible contributing factors that may be having an influence on this revenue.

1) The overall world financial state
There is no hiding from the fact that there is a global crisis in terms of finance and consumer spending at the moment. Obviously this is going to have an effect on the bids companies make for their AdWords and in some cases the suspension of campaigns altogether.

Less people looking to spend money online as the crisis affects their pockets too. Higher petrol prices and a gloomy outlook means that they may simply be avoiding spending extra cash at the moment.

2) Easter
Yup it came early this year and according to many friends in the UK schools and colleges up and down the country have been staggering their holidays meaning that over the last 3 weeks various schools have been on holiday for a couple of weeks.

So let's see what happens next week.

3) Google's new policing policy of AdSense units in websites.

It would appear that there are far too many 'Blogger's' who have simply added an AdSense unit (on Google's advice mind you) and have just stopped blogging but left in the AdSense, earning minimal revenue, if at all. However, it still means that the account has to be administered by Google.

No revenue for the Blogger means no revenue for Google but they still need to run the account.

So Google is now paying more attention to the content of a website and websites with better quality content for a certain sector will receive higher AdSense revenue than a poor badly worded website running AdSense.

For AdWords publishers the same applies. Google have always placed adverts on a combination of bid value as well as website content relevancy giving a 'quality score'. If your adverts or landing pages return a low quality score you will be asked to increase your bid.

So in a nutshell, when you are optimising a website for Google, whether that be for generating your own revenue with AdSense or doing your own advertising with AdWords CONTENT STILL REMAINS KING

Email & SPAM

Wow. I just read an article about emails and SPAM and was reminded how young email and the Internet really are.

Way back in 1971 the very first email was sent. Can you believe that? Email has only been around for 37 years and that was on a very restricted basis. It was hardly email as we know it today. A guy called Ray Tomlinson managed to send a message from one machine to another in the same room.

Eureka! Email was born.

SPAM was something that would never have been thought of in those early days of email. Only around 1,000 people had email and you knew exactly who was sending the email to you.

But inevitably as the Internet grew, email became mainstream and criminal gangs realised that the Internet was a fantastic place to extort people, SPAM was born too.

But I suppose we have to take stock of the overall situation and ask the question;

Could I really do without my email account(s) now?

Could I survive with only texting, posting (and I mean the paper type that has to go by hand) or telephoning?

So yes in my humble opinion I destest SPAMMERS. I find SPAM an invasion of privacy and if I wanted Viagra or cheap software products (or indeed manhood enlargement pills), I certainly would not buy then from an anonymous company on the Internet who only wants my bank account details and credit card information. However, all of that aside I LOVE MY EMAIL!!

Google and Double Click

Well it's official Google have at last completed the purchase of Double Click who are responsible for the majority of those banners and videos that run along the top or side of many websites. In fact they are responsible for billions of ads every day and although it may take some time for the $3.1 billion paid to be recouped, it is seen as a major win for Google.

So what will it mean to you and I?

Well it means that Google will have even more insight into our online behaviour.

It will mean that eventually you and I can earn money from these banners as Google are sure to include then in their growing armoury of AdSense revenue generators. This alone will allow "webmasters" to include these units in more and more websites, giving more exposure to advertisers and earning Google EVEN more revenue.

Over the last few years "text based ads", those that you see along the side of Google search pages or on third party websites, have dominated the 'paid for' ad arena with video and image ads dropping to 21% market share from their original 58% back in 2001. This is mainly due to Google being able to target ads based upon the specific search of a user or a specific page of a website i.e. on theme adverts, therefore achieving much higher conversions.

With their purchase of Double Click and the ability to target the right users we should see video and image ads making a huge comeback.

This is a HUGE blow to Microsoft, especially as their unsolicited bid for Yahoo was rejected. In reality we could really do with the Microsoft / Yahoo partnership just to keep an "even" balance.