Understanding How Your Brand Drives Google Shopping Campaign Traffic
Separating brand from non-brand traffic is not as straightforward in Google Shopping as it is for standard AdWords text ads, but columnist Mark Ballard has a solution.
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Heal’s Furniture: A Tale Of 2 Ad Types, Text Vs. Shopping
E-commerce sites can greatly benefit by switching from regular search text ads to Google Shopping ads, as demonstrated by columnist Rebekah Schelfhout’s case study.
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Appearing Multiple Times In Google Shopping: The Pros & Cons
Are you bleeding money or gaining exposure from showing up multiple times in Google Shopping results? Rebekah Schelfhout shares her thoughts.
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Google Partners Adds Certification For Shopping Campaigns
New exam allows AdWords practitioners to become certified in managing Google Shopping campaigns.
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To Prove Online-To-Offline Impact, Google Rolls Out “Store Visits” Metric In AdWords
Measures impact of search ads on in-store traffic as part of AdWords Estimated Total Conversions.
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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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Ahead Of Black Friday, Google Adds Shopping Details For Mobile Users
Google says that shopping searches from smartphones have increased 3.5 times compared to last year and that Google Shopping is already sending more mobile traffic to retailer sites than it did during the first week of December last year. To capitalize …
Google Adds New Shopping Campaigns Tools: Auction Insights, Diagnostics Tab And More
Strange things happen during the holiday shopping frenzy — search queries sky rocket and inventory fluctuates as demand surges on certain days. Managing spikes in search volume on brand and product queries and ensuring product feeds accurately reflect inventory pose particular challenges….
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Google Shopping Merchant Promotions Roll Out To More Countries
Just ahead of the holiday frenzy, Google is expanding Merchant Promotions to the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Australia and India. Launched in the U.S. in 2012, Merchant Promotions allow advertisers to show promotion code offers alongside their product listing ads in search as well as their…
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Anticipating What Products Will Drive Your Holiday Paid Search Sales
With products changing from year to year, how can you predict which items will be hot sellers this holiday season? Contributor Mark Ballard offers some advice.
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In A Big Shift, Google’s Latest Ad Test Drives Users To Google Shopping, Not Advertisers’ Sites
Google is experimenting with a new format for Google Shopping ads, this time on brand searches. The example shown above showcases products from jeweler David Yurman by category — rings, bracelets, necklaces and earrings — on a search for the brand. This screen shot was sent to Search…
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Traffic Insights From Google Shopping Search Partners
Google recently started distributing Google Shopping campaigns to selected partners. Columnist Rebekah Schelfhout explores what impact, if any, this has had on advertisers.
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Google Searches For Halloween Costumes Show Frozen’s Elsa, Olaf & Anna Top The List
What are the hottest and most desirable costumes for Halloween this year? Well, according to Google searches, the movie Frozen made three of the top ten list. Elsa, Olaf and Anna from Frozen the Movie are the top trending costume searches on Google Sho…
Google Introduces Automatic Item Updates For PLAs
Up to now, Google has systematically disapproved product listing ads when retailers had price or inventory variances between their product feed and the microdata on their sites. Now, to help retailers maintain consistent visibility in PLAs, Google has launched “automatic item updates”…
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How To Keep Your Product Advertising Game Sharp
Contributor Matt Ackley from Marin provides data and insights on the latest product advertising trends and best practices.
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Google Brings PLAs To Third-Party Sites Like Walmart.com
Today, Google announced it is extending its popular product listing ads (PLAs) to retail and e-commerce sites across the Google Search Network. The ads are served via a new Google product called AdSense for Shopping, which offers retail and ecommerce s…
Optmyzr Launches Google Shopping Campaigns Setup Tool
There are many benefits of the new Shopping Campaigns structure that Google ushered in on September 1st, however, the setup process can be cumbersome and iterative, particularly if you have the same type of campaign structure across multiple campaigns….
Latest Google Product Listing Ads Test: Segment By Brand
Google has been running several experiments on the way it displays product listing ads (PLAs) in the search results. We’ve seen ads grouped in pricing buckets, PLAs showing in knowledge panels, and now, PLAs segmented by brand. While researching Chromebooks, Samuel Edwards at Tenthwave…
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Google Allows Store-Exclusive “Nearby” Product Listing Ads On Desktop
The ability to advertise locally-available products on Google via local product listing ads on mobile and desktop devices has been available since last fall. However, only on mobile devices could retailers promote items that were just available in-stor…
The Google Shopping Campaigns Countdown Is On: Transition Surprises And Tips From The Experts
Tick tock, we’re in the final countdown before the big transition from traditional product listing ad (PLA) campaigns to Shopping Campaigns in Google AdWords at the end of the month. Considering PLAs now can account for 40 percent or more of a merchant’s paid search traffic, getting the…
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