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TM AOP - Harnessing Specialised Search January 22, 2008

Harnessing Vertical Search

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Presentation by Iain Fletcher of Convera at the AOP Vertical Search seminar on Jan 21st 2008

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AOP - Harnessing Specialised Search

January 22, 2008

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About Digital Marketing

• Increasing complexity

• Much more a science than an art

1. Try something

2. Measure what happens

3. Adjust something

4. Try something else…….

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Key Strategy

Put the leavers of power in the hands of the editors and marketers

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• Win back search traffic from the big guys

• Widgets and search toolbar syndication

Search as a traffic generator

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Intelligence from search

• “Hold the front page”

• Content gaps?

• “Cross sell” traffic within your portfolio

• Support email and offline marketing

• Build additional value into your subscriber databases

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Revenue opportunities

• Run-of-site• Search results pages provide additional page

views for general advertising

• Category sponsorships• Typically tenancy

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Keyword targeting

• Advertisers understand AdWords, and most already use it (CPC model)

• Sell a unique combination of demographic and keyword targeting

• Integrated ad server within our service provides• A range of payment models

• Tenancy, CPM, CPC

• A range of formats • banners, buttons, directory listings, sponsored links

etc.

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Self service advertising?

• Typically not applicable in B2B• Is there a long tail of advertisers to address?

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Functional examples

• Looking for “guys?”

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Functional examples

• Looking for “guys?”

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