September 15, 2017 The industry continues to buzz about Google’s recent announcement to simplify ad rotation settings from four options to just two: “Optimize” and “Rotate Indefinitely”. These changes are to take place later this month. You may think to yourself, “Sure, that’s neat but I’ll continue to rotate indefinitely. I have my A/B testing routine […]
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September 14, 2017 I plan to dig into what seems like one of the more simple metrics – average position. It seems pretty straight forward, right? Avg. position is the where your ad lands on the page most of the time, right? Not so much. The avg. position is the mean average of where your
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There’s no doubt that Google Adwords can be very beneficial to a business. It’s one of the best ways to drive traffic to your site, generate leads and close sales. But like most good things, it also takes time, careful planning and execution, and a bit of an investment. Google Adwords campaigns have to be
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August 24, 2017 A major focus over at the Google headquarters in 2017 has been to increase automated bid offering within the AdWords platform. They have refined existing methods and added new capabilities. Approached with a unique situation earlier in the year, our client team decided to place our personal experiences and hesitancy with machine
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August 17, 2017 There are many surprising similarities between AdWords auctions and real estate markets. What can one ancient industry teach us about one that is so new to us? By comparing the two we’ll try and understand more about CPC inflation, effective investment strategies and where the industry could be heading. AdWords auctions
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August 3, 2017 Your new pay-per-click account is structured, the keywords are loaded, and ad text is optimized. You activate your Adwords campaign with great expectations, and then… nothing. No spend. No impressions. No clicks. Don’t worry, it can happen to anyone. Chances are, there is one issue in your account that is preventing your
Top 10 Reasons Why Your Ads Aren’t Showing in Google Read More »
Successful content marketing is far from slapping words onto (digital) paper. It requires research, careful planning, ongoing data analysis, constant innovation and reflection. Sounds like you’d need an entire team of experts to get it all done, right? Certainly more hands on deck wouldn’t hurt. But even a small team (or hey, a team of
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Over the past month or so, Google has been testing how sitelinks show up on brand queries on desktop search results. The test is on enhanced sitelinks, which include a line of description copy with each link and appear only on brand queries on desktop. Typically, these appear in two columns below the ad as
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July 21, 2017 Display ad inventory includes great sites and plenty of terrible ones. As a result, advertisers continue to push for greater control over where their ads show. Avoiding ads on low quality and offensive sites it more important than ever. The good news is that negative placements will assist us in this
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In 2000, when the tech crunch was in full effect, an ambitious search engine company named Google launched the beta version of AdWords with just 350 advertisers. Fifteen years later, Google had earned nearly $52 billion in net annual ad revenue, representing 77.8 percent of all search ad revenue in the United States and 30 percent of
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