Bing Ads Rolls Out Enhanced Sitelinks Globally, Adds Sitelink Device Preference
Additional copy below each Sitelink extension is available in most markets and languages supported by Bing Ads.
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Ability To Share Ads Via AdWords Shared Library Is Going Away
Feature will be eliminated on February 11th.
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Smartphones Account For 40 Percent Of US Search Ad Spend In Q4 [Marin]
Desktop’s influence, while still dominant, continued to wane in the fourth quarter.
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Smartphones Account For 40 Percent Of US Search Ad Spend In Q4 [Marin]
Desktop’s influence, while still dominant, continued to wane in the fourth quarter.
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Seeing Double: Yahoo, Bing Search Ads Show Duplicate Copy In Headlines And Ad Text
Change effecting top line ads said to boost click-through rates.
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What Yahoo’s Firefox Deal Tells Us About Paid Search In 2015
Has Firefox’s switch to Yahoo as the default search engine impacted PPC campaigns? Contributor Mark Ballard from RKG examines the data.
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Reaching The Modern Family: Cross-Device Advertising Is A Must
Are you deploying a cross-device search strategy to capture users as they move between devices? Columnist John Cosley of Bing notes that you’re missing out if not.
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Bing Ads, Too, Says Goodbye To Phone Numbers In PPC Ad Copy
Advertisers will need to use call or location extensions to display phone numbers.
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How Should SMBs Buy Local Search Advertising: Automated Services Vs. Sales Reps?
Who should small- and medium-sized businesses turn to for help with search marketing? Columnist Wesley Young of the Local Search Association starts the discussion.
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Doubling Down On Audience-Centric Marketing
After a banner year for audience marketing, it’s a great time to revisit the concepts I touched on earlier this year and explore some thoughts on what’s further driving audience marketing trends as we move into 2015. There are some major, exciting changes happening in the digital marketing space:…
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Why You Need To Make Dynamic Copy An Integral Part Of Your 2015 PPC Strategy
As we head into 2015, advertisers and searchers are both suffering ad fatigue. Part of this fatigue has to do with the current state of paid search, including which features are considered necessary. The other part has to do with advertisers not adapti…
New Widget In AdWords Makes Countdown Copy Easy
Quickly set up dynamic countdowns in ads without having to type variable strings.Quickly set up dynamic countdowns in ads without having to type variable strings.
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Paid Search Revenue Gains Outpaced Retailer Ad Spend On Black Friday, Cyber Monday
Over the Thanksgiving week, retailers increased ad spend on paid search by 49 percent compared to 2013, according to new data from Kenshoo. On the biggest shopping days — Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday — revenue increases outweighed the jump in ad spend from the previous…
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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 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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For The Trifecta, Bing Ads Rolling Out Close Variants On Phrase Match
Bing Ads has already announced the switch to include close variants on Exact Match and Broad Match Modifier keywords. Now Phrase Match keywords will also get the close variants treatment. With close variants, ads trigger on search queries that closely resemble the keyword — plurals,…
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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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AdWords Now Shows Up To 3 Business Locations In Google Mobile Search Ads
Google has made an update to AdWords location extensions that allows multiple locations to display in mobile search ads. When several business locations are nearby, users may see up to three locations in an ad. The extensions can display the street address and distance from the user’s current…
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Search Arbitrage Accounts For Largest Percentage Of Ads Competing On Brand Trademarks
Brands are often struggling with other advertisers encroaching on their trademark terms in search ads. Sometimes brand trademarks are used by “friendly” advertisers such as resellers, but a study released today from BrandVerity shows that search arbitrage accounts for the majority of…
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Bing Ads To Retire Explicit Mobile OS Targeting In March 2015
To complete its path to compatibility with Google AdWords, Bing Ad has announced that explicit OS targeting will be retired in March of next year. No longer will you have the option to target ads to a specific mobile operating systems as you are now. I…