Attention search marketers: ALL keywords are branded keywords!

Columnist Larry Kim explains how brand affinity impacts both paid and organic search performance — and how you can use this information to bolster your SEO and PPC campaigns.

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SEM continuity: The ROI-boosting digital marketing concept you’ve never heard of

What is continuity, and how does it apply to our work as search marketers? Contributors Jeff Eckman and Paul Benson share how thinking holistically can improve ROI for your search campaigns.

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Google testing new look for local inventory ads in place of local pack

The test is another effort to monetize local queries on mobile.

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Should you create device-specific PPC campaigns?

Columnist Aaron Levy, a big advocate of PPC segmentation, discusses the pros and cons of device-specific AdWords campaigns and shares tips on how to get started.

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Retailers testing Google Maps mobile Promoted Places ads include MAC Cosmetics, Starbucks, Walgreens

The promoted pins in Google Maps are being tested on Android devices.

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Google’s shaky pitch for why advertisers should let Dynamic Search Ads handle queries

The AdWords Help documentation recommends that advertisers not add top-performing queries from Dynamic Search Ads (DSAs) as keywords. Columnist Andy Taylor explores whether that recommendation makes sense.

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Ad extensions for the entire decision journey

How can you use ad extensions to move potential customers further down the sales funnel? Columnist Mona Elesseily shares some tactical advice.

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Black Friday Report: Retail search ad spend shifted from text to shopping ads on desktop

Desktop spend across 2,500 popular product queries increased just marginally over the holiday weekend compared to a year ago.

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Here’s an AdWords script to fill empty ad groups

Columnist Daniel Gilbert of Brainlabs makes sure you don’t lose traffic due to missing ads.

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How do our biases impact PPC performance?

With experience comes wisdom, but columnist Brett Middleton believes that search marketers can sometimes limit themselves by clinging to old habits.

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Ad customizers just got a whole lot more powerful

Columnist Frederick Vallaeys discusses the new capabilities of ad customizers in AdWords, explaining how you can use them to serve better, more relevant ads.

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