Should Companies Bid on their Own Brand in Sponsored Search ?

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Sponsored Search allows companies to place text advertisements for selected keywords on Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). The objective of the present research is to determine whether and under what circumstances it makes sense, in economic terms, for brand owners to pay for sponsored search ads for their brand keywords. This issue is the subject of a heated debate in business practice, especially when the company is already placed prominently in the organic search results. In this paper we describe and apply a non-reactive method that is based on an A/B-test. It was employed in a case study of a European Internet pharmacy. The results of this study indicate that the use of sponsored search advertising for the own brand name enables advertisers to generate more visitors (>10%), resulting in higher sales volumes at relatively low advertising costs even when the company is already listed in first position in the organic part of the respective SERP.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICE-B 2011 : Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Business
EditorsDavid A. Marca, Boris Shishkov, Marten van Sinderen
Number of pages8
PublisherScience and Technology Publications, Lda (SciTePress)
Publication date2011
Pages14-21
ISBN (print)978-989-8425-70-6
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Event10th International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government - EEE 2011 - Sevilla, Spain
Duration: 18.07.201121.07.2011
Conference number: 10
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    Research areas

  • Business informatics - Brand marketing, Branded keywords, E-commerce, Keyword selection, Paid search, Search engine marketing, Sponsored search
  • Brand marketing, Branded keywords, E-commerce, Keyword selection, Paid search, Search engine marketing, Sponsored search

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