Small-budget guide to testing ad copy, landing pages, and more

It’s key to focus on one or two tests to ensure you reach statistical significance. Guide to testing ad copy, landing pages, new engines and ad formats.

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Search outpaced social for referral traffic last year, driving 35% of site visits vs social’s 26% share of visits

According to a new referral traffic report from Shareaholic, 2017 was the first time since 2014 search owned a larger share of visits over social.

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Five most important search marketing news stories of the week

This week, both LinkedIn and Facebook are beefing up their paid social offerings in different ways, while Google seeks to cut off Adwords revenues for fake news sites. And might Google be favouring desktop over its own AMP in its upcoming mobile-first index?