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The Search Monitor Blog

Brand Bidding Best Practices

Affiliate Managers, Agencies, Marketing Teams

Brand Bidding is your secret revenue weapon! We monitor data for millions of branded searches. Competition for these terms is on the rise and an effective, revenue-focused brand bidding strategy is the answer.

Let’s discuss the best practices of “how” to implement brand bidding campaigns.

What Is Content Monitoring & Why Does It Matter?

Affiliate Managers, Agencies, Marketing Teams, Retail

Content Monitoring is an increasingly common practice where advertisers learn how partners, competitors, and other websites use their marketing content online. Content monitoring enables marketing and legal teams to better control the online activities of affiliates, influencers, partners, and resellers.

So why does content monitoring matter?

Typically, content monitoring relies on automated web crawling technology to look for specific instances of other advertisers behaving badly. You may ask…do advertisers really behave badly? Short Answer: Yes. Long Answer: Yesssssssssssss. 🙂

NEW: Artificial Intelligence Feature For Keyword Development

Agencies, Marketing Teams


The Search Monitor adds enhancements that will allow users to get the benefit of artificial intelligence and computer learnings to better evaluate the competitive landscape.

Orlando, FL – June 14, 2019 – The Search Monitor, the leader in competitive intelligence and brand protection, just released their newest feature that utilizes neural learning to auto-create keywords customized to a user’s needs. This will allow users of The Search Monitor to discover new keywords to monitor, automate surveillance of brand and brand plus keywords, and compete better based on competitive data.

Free Guide: Download The SEM Manager’s Guide To PPC Growth

Agencies, Marketing Teams

Are you a SEM manager looking to catapult PPC performance with EASY ROI growth techniques? If so, you will want to download our FREE SEM Manager’s Guide to PPC Growth.

The burning question facing all search marketers has always been, “How can I see meaningful PPC growth in a crowded and competitive PPC market?” Unless you are completely new to PPC, it is tough to get the big gains that we once saw. As a marketing tactic, PPC has been mature for years, and few “easy wins” still remain.

The Search Monitor’s LiveSERP Tool Is Now Online

Affiliate Managers, Agencies, Marketing Teams, Retail

Users can now preview live SERP results side by side with The Search Monitor’s newly available web-based LiveSERP tool.

The Search Monitor’s LiveSERP tool is now web based. LiveSERP makes it possible to for users to run live web searches, from multiple cities, countries, engines, and platforms (mobile or desktop) on the fly. It’s the ultimate SERP preview tool for SEM and SEO. LiveSERP is free for The Search Monitor’s clients to use.

The Search Monitor Is Integrated with Tableau

Affiliate Managers, Agencies, Marketing Teams, Retail

The Search Monitor has integrated its ad monitoring and brand protection data into Tableau via the Tableau API

Orlando, FL – October 22, 2018 – The Search Monitor has integrated its ad monitoring and brand protection data into Tableau via the Tableau API. Customers of both The Search Monitor and Tableau can now use Tableau’s business intelligence platform to get advanced insights from data gathered using The Search Monitor’s technology.

The Search Monitor Adds Amazon Visibility Benchmarking

Affiliate Managers, Agencies, Marketing Teams, Retail

Advertisers can now benchmark share of voice on Amazon.com’s search results using The Search Monitor’s competitive intelligence ad monitoring platform

Orlando, FL – October 22, 2018 – The Search Monitor has added a new feature to its monitoring of Amazon.com’s search results: the ability to create share of voice trend charts. This exciting addition lets advertisers benchmark visibility against competitors in Amazon search results.

We LOVE Data: Amazon vs Walmart vs Target

Agencies, Marketing Teams, Retail

Back to School Season is upon us – which means it’s time to shop for clothes!

We picked the apparel space for this analysis because it presented the opportunity to study a vast variety of keywords and brands. This space faces a lot of competition from resellers and brand manufacturers – which makes it tough to dominate. We track all of this with sophisticated crawlers and deep ad copy reporting tools!

The Search Monitor Adds Amazon.com Search Listings

Affiliate Managers, Agencies, Marketing Teams, Retail

The Search Monitor adds Amazon.com search listings to its competitive intelligence ad monitoring platform.

Orlando, FL – August 23, 2018 – Competitive intelligence for paid and organic listings on Amazon.com is now available from The Search Monitor. This exciting new technology gives advertisers unprecedented access to the data they need to compete effectively on Amazon.

The Search Monitor Announces the Release of Competitive Intelligence for Paid and Organic Listings on Amazon.com

Affiliate Managers, Agencies, Marketing Teams, Retail

Unprecedented Access to Competitive Intelligence for Organic and Paid Listings Gives Advertisers the Opportunity to Crush the Competition on Amazon.com.

Orlando, FL – June 15, 2018 – The Search Monitor announces the release of competitive intelligence for paid and organic listings on Amazon.com. Coming soon in Q2 2018, this exciting new technology gives advertisers unprecedented access to the data they need to compete effectively on Amazon.