YP Launches New Local Search Marketplace For National Advertisers

Once dismissed as the exclusive concern of small businesses, brands and national advertisers are recognizing the importance of location data and local search. Often, however, they have trouble operationalizing local SEO and other tactics. YP has built …

Bing Ads Updates Campaign Planner Tool For Search Trends, Keyword And Competitive Research

In September, Bing Ads released its Campaign Planner tool, which includes vertical and product trend data, keyword research and competitive insights. This week, the first update to the tool was released. If you’re not already familiar with this tool, I recommend taking some time and digging…

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Shopzilla’s Rebrand As Connexity Opens Search Marketing Technology To Retailers

Shopzilla, best known for its comparison shopping engine, changed its namein September to Connexity Inc. to reflect a change in focus. The company still operates it’s consumer-facing sites, but now makes its B2C assets and shopping data available to marketers as managed services. As part of…

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Google Keyword Planner Now Shows Conversion Estimates

Google announced today that conversion estimates have been added to the Keyword Planner tool in AdWords. Google will use an account’s historical conversion data, or users can enter their own conversion rates and conversion values to see how bid changes might impact metrics such as estimated…

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Now Make Changes To AdWords Settings And Ad Extensions Across Multiple Campaigns

Following up on last month’s ad customizers news, which brought dynamic insertion to a whole new level, Google has launched bulk editing for campaign settings and ad extensions. Bulk editing eliminates the tedium of making adjustments to settings and extensions within the AdWords user…

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Bing Ads Delivers An MCC: “Accounts Summary” Now Available For Managing Multiple Accounts

Bing Ads is delivering on a long-requested feature to make managing multiple accounts on the platform easier. Accounts Summary is Bing’s answer to the AdWords My Client Center (MCC). From Accounts Summary agencies and advertisers responsible for multiple Bing Ads accounts can toggle between…

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