Google Ditching Paid RHS Ads – What You Need To Know
Google are set to remove all right hand side ads this week. Why? What will the impact be? Find out what’s been confirmed and what’s still speculation in this article from Arianne Donoghue.
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Six of the most interesting SEM news stories of the week
Welcome to our weekly round-up of all the latest news and research from around the world of search marketing and beyond.
29 super useful PPC tools you need to try this year
The right PPC tools will save you time, provide crucial insights, inspire you, and ultimately make more money for your company or your clients. If you’re ready to take an evolutionary leap of your own, check out this list of 29 amazing PPC tools you need to try this year.
AdWords Smart Goals: not a smart move for advertisers
Let’s look a little closer at what I believe the issues to be with AdWords’ new offering, and I’ll end on a positive note by highlighting something interesting that Smart Goals is doing.
Friday Infographic: 3 Smart KPIs to Check Your Adwords Account Optimization
How is your Adwords account doing? Are you only spending or are you also making money? Maybe this infographic from Gianpaolo Lorusso might help.
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The Adoption of Gmail Sponsored Promotions (GSPs)
A look into how the take up of Gmail Sponsored Promotions has been slower than other products. This post includes a short survey and some GSP strategies too.
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Everything Search Marketers Need To Know About Gmail Sponsored Promotions, Part 1
GSPs are now available to all advertisers. Columnist Susan Waldes has been there since the beta launch two years ago and shares her hard-won best practices.
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Supercharge your Adwords Ads with Ad Customizers
Get the most from your Adwords ad text this holiday season with Ad Customizers.
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Adwords Update: Dynamic Sitelinks & Getting Ready to Upgrade to Display Select
If you don’t have time to keep up with Adwords changes – here are our pick of the most recent updates.
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Adwords Update: Dynamic Sitelinks & Getting Ready to Upgrade to Display Select
Reach & Frequency: The Forgotten Dimension Of GDN On AdWords
The Reach and Frequency report lives under the Dimensions tab in AdWords; yet this information often gets overlooked in favour of analysis on areas such as geographic location or time of day. What Can You See From This Report? Very simply, this report shows the following: Reach: The number of…
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Think Twice Before Using Top of Page Bidding in AdWords
What we did While bidding to the top of the page isn’t always the best strategy for paid search, it can be a good strategy depending on your goals, i.e. focusing on clicks or awareness, being the most competitive for certain terms, etc. We recently had a client who was hitting the end of their […]
Should You Be Bidding On Your Brand Terms For Your Search Ads?
While many advertisers have bought into the idea of bidding on search terms that include their brand name, there are still plenty of smart people that question the incrementality of such a practice. We’ve questioned it ourselves, most recently in a 2012 study. That study looked at incremental…
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New AdWords Quality Score Info: What You Need To Know
By now, you’ve probably seen (or at least heard about) Google’s recent video and new white paper about Quality Score in AdWords. In fact, when I first heard about the updated Hal Varian video, I was a bit surprised, given that Google hasn’t bothered to update it for about five years!…
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Three Tales of PPC Geotargeting Successes
With the roll out of bid modifiers by geo, tailoring your PPC strategy to specific geographies has never been easier. We here at SEER have been playing around with a few different ways to think about and test geo strategy. (Please read the following in your best Ira Glass.) Today on our program, three mini […]
How To Improve Shopping Ad Performance & Quality Score In AdWords
By late August, Product Listing campaigns for AdWords will be retired in favor of Shopping campaigns, so if you haven’t started migrating, don’t delay much longer. You can run both campaign types simultaneously, so start tweaking Shopping campaigns now so that they’ll be performing great by the…
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Mobile Calls Are The New Conversions: 7 Tips For SEMs
Are you seeing depressing plateaus, or even declines, in your year-over-year conversion numbers? The fact is that a huge portion of search activity is moving to mobile. Soon, mobile activity will account for over 50% of searches. The problem is that the mobile conversions don’t follow the…
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Why AdWords Dynamic Search Ads Work Better Than You Think
I have a confession: I used to hate Dynamic Search Ads. I’m sure some of you still do. For my part, I had used them unsuccessfully in a couple of accounts and decided they were no good. It wasn’t until a few months ago, when I saw this awesome presentation from Matt Umbro at SMX…
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The Impact Of Google Display Network Magazine Ads
In May, Google officially launched a new format for text ads on the Google Display Network (GDN) called magazine ads. Have you taken the chance yet to analyse what has happened to your text ads traffic since? Here’s what they look like: I’ve looked into a few accounts to spot what key…
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Up Close @ SMX Advanced: Amazing Paid Search Tactics
Paid search continues to get exceedingly complicated, but the expert panel, the last session of this year’s SMX Advanced, blew the audience away with understandable and valuable tips. Amazing Paid Search Tactics & Tools featured four expert speakers, and it was the first time I’ve ever heard…
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How To Manage Bids For AdWords Shopping Ads
Last month, I covered the basics of how Shopping campaigns in AdWords differ from Search campaigns. The key finding I had was that, with Search, you have to add keywords to target more queries. In Shopping, all queries that match your products are targ…