Marin Software Adds Support For Google Shopping Campaigns
Marin Software has added support for Google Shopping Campaigns, which will become the only way to manage Product Listing Ads (PLAs) in AdWords beginning in late August. The dynamic campaigns tool in the Marin platform automates Shopping Campaign creati…
New Google AdWords PLA Test Groups Products By Price
This could get interesting. Last month, we saw Google running a test that ranked product listing ads (PLAs) by ratings and reviews in search results. Now, a new test groups and ranks products by price. In the screenshot below, provided by CPC Strategy, PLAs are grouped in two pricing stacks —…
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Google’s New AdWords Editor Version Offers Shopping Campaigns Support, More Display Targeting Options
Roughly a month ahead of the rollover to Shopping Campaigns, Google has released a new version of AdWords Editor that supports the new campaign type. Google announced the old style of PLA campaigns will be shut down at some point in late August. Note t…
Google Issues Best Practices For Shopping Campaigns Ahead Of This Summer’s Big Transition
With Shopping Campaigns becoming the default campaign type for running Product Listing Ads on Google by the end of August, the search giant has issued a best practices whitepaper to help marketers make the transition. The main points the paper dives in…
New PLA Test Spotted: Google Ranking Products By Reviews And Ratings
The team at CPC Strategy spotted a new test in the Google Product Listing Ads (PLAs) last night. In a search for coffee grinders that was qualified with “best”, the PLAs were shown in order of a numerical rankings system that appears to be factoring in the quality and quantity of each…
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Google Adds Shopping Campaigns Features, Says Regular PLA Campaigns To Sunset In August 2014
Google introduced Shopping campaigns to all advertisers running Product Listing Ads (PLAs) in February as a way to simplify PLA set up and management. Today, Google announced some new features that have been rolling out in response to advertiser feedba…
Google Testing New Sponsored Shopping Boxes, With 3D View
Google continues to experiment with Google Shopping displays beyond the traditional thumbnail box panel of Product Listing Ads. This latest version is larger than the sponsored result spotted earlier this month for the book “Don’t Make Me Think”. Found by Twitter user Brittney…
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Go Deep: Product Listing Ad Campaigns That Just Focus On Top Sellers Get Short Changed [Study]
Is there a long tail in PLAs? Does it pay off for retailers to advertise all of their products in their Google product listing ad (PLA) campaigns? Or should they stay focused on top sellers and high margin items? Sitting on a trove of data from large s…
Marin: 40 Percent Of Google PLA Clicks To Come From Smartphones By Dec 2014
By now it’s clear that retailers made record investments in Google product listing ads (PLAs) in Q4 2013, as reports from Covario, RKG and IgnitionOne have each shown. Today, Marin Software released its own findings which reinforce the general consensus that PLA performance this past holiday…
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Report: Google PLAs Deliver 4X Revenue Lift For Retailers In Early Holiday Season
It’s probably not too surprising to hear that retailers have doubled their year-over-year spend on Google product listing ads this holiday season thus far. After all, the paid format of Google Shopping had just rolled out in the fall of 2012. What is stunning, however, is the four-fold…
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Debate: Do Single Product PLA Ad Groups Strangle ROI?
Building out Product Listing Ad campaigns in Google AdWords with single product or single SKU ad groups has become a fairly common practice. The idea being that isolating each product into its own ad group gives advertisers more control over which item…
Local Google Shopping PLAs And Local Storefronts Roll Out To Limited Set Of Retailers
Today, Google is making public what several speakers at SMX East alluded to last week: local availability for Product Listing Ads. The latest iteration of Google’s wildly successful Product Listing Ads, which will be referred to simply “Local PLAs” in this article, are currently…
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Retailers Promote Over 1 Billion Products With Google PLAs, Holiday Surge Expected [Marin]
Today, Marin Software release a new study that finds Google Product Listing Ads (PLAs) continue to see increased adoption among retailers. According to the study, over one billion products were being promoted through PLAs as of May 2013. PLA impression…