Author Archives: Darrell Merrick

About Darrell Merrick

Darrell is an Adwords guru and has always worked with software and web development. Though he's not an anti-social computer geek! You can find him doing both, the business as well as the technical side of projects. Some of his marketing "stats" with Amazon, over 4 years: Total items sold: 99,852 Total sales for Amazon: $5,910,090 Commissions paid to me: $547,966 Adwords costs: $167,832 Total Profit from Amazon: $380,133 If we could all do so good! If you're looking to venture into Google Adwords or Amazon sales, Darrell may have the answers for you!

Beware of Overly Broad Keywords – Addendum

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Darrell Merrick

I did a post a few days ago on my AdWordsMadScientist blog, titled Beware of Overly Broad Keywords Well I wanted to emphasize, for people looking to do pay-per-click (AdWords or otherwise) how this is probably the most deadly trap. … Continue reading →

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Twitter is Selling Advertising

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Darrell Merrick

We knew it was coming … Twitter is now selling advertising. Remember way back when Google was just getting started, and you could do these searches without seeing ads? (or is it just me that remembers that?) Well, Twitter has … Continue reading →

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Shopping Cart Abandonment is Killing Your Sales

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Darrell Merrick

If you have an online store, do you know what your “abandonment rate” is? Note: An abandoned shopping cart is where a visitor adds one or more items to their “cart”, but doesn’t complete the sale. In my main store … Continue reading →

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AdWords Keyword Research – Real Clicks

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Darrell Merrick

There are a number of great keyword tools out there, to do keyword research. Including free ones from Google. But after I’ve determined that a niche or some keywords have potential, I like to do something “shocking” that most people … Continue reading →

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SEOMoz Infusioncon SEO Tips

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Darrell Merrick

Scott Willoughby from SEOmoz gave a great presentation at Infusioncon 2010 (Infusionsoft Conference in Scottsdale AZ). Here are some interesting “bits”. (some you may already know) SEOmoz has a new version of their Firefox toolbar, coming soon. For seeing page metrics … Continue reading →

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