RKG Q3: Paid Search Ad Spend Surged 26 Percent Y/Y

Q3 brought more paid search growth among RKG’s clients according to the firm’s third quarter digital marketing report. Paid search ad spend on Google increased 27 percent and Bing increase ad spend rose 24 percent, for an overall growth rate of 26 percent year-over-year.  No surprise,…

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Bing Ads Makes Combined Tablet-Desktop Targeting Official

Desktop and tablets are now united across paid search — with one caveat. Bing Ads has officially combined tablet and PC targeting in search campaigns on the platform, following on Google’s move to do so last year with the introduction of Enhanced Campaigns. Bing Ads announced the…

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Bing Ads Debuts Enhanced Sitelinks In US

Enhanced Sitelinks are now available on Bing Ads in the U.S., and  will be rolling out to more global markets through the end of the year. Enhanced Sitelinks offer two additional lines of copy below the link itself. Bing Ads reports that on average, advertisers testing Enhanced Sitelinks saw…

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Bing Ads Makes Close Variants On Exact Match Permanent In U.S.

That test didn’t last long. A month ago, Bing Ads announced that it would test close variants on exact match in the U.S. As of yesterday, the switch has been flipped and close variants on exact match keywords are here to stay. Close variants include search queries that are close but not exact…

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Bing Ads Rolling Out Dynamic Sitelinks In U.S.

Bing Ads has debuted dynamic sitelinks, a new annotation that are automatically created and displayed in the same fashion as standard Sitelinks that advertisers control. If this sounds familiar, it’s because Google introduced the same feature in July. The engines know that sitelinks increase…

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Bing Ads Preview And Ad Diagnostics Tool: Now For Product And Mobile Ads

The Ad Preview and Diagnostics Tool in Bing Ads now allows advertisers to preview how their ads will look on mobile devices and find out why their product ads aren’t running. A new Product Ads tab in the tool includes a “reason for not showing” column with specific causes such as…

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Use Holiday Search Data To Prep Your SEM Campaigns For The Upcoming Season

When are people searching for and when are people searching on Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday?

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Bing Ads Introduces Bulk Editing In Web UI, Now Review Up To 1 Million Keywords

Bing Ads has been building out its capabilities in the Web UI this year so that account managers aren’t as beholden to the Bing Ads Editor as they have been to manage campaigns. Today, Bing Ads announced bulk editing features and the ability to review accounts with as many as 1 million…

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Quickly Find The Facts Behind Account Fluctuations With New Bing Ads “Top Movers” Report

Seen some abnormal activity in your Bing Ads account lately? Instead of having to get out your detective’s cap, corn-cob pipe, magnifying glass and sleuthing through handfuls of reports, Bing’s new Top Movers Report may offer a faster solution. Launched today, the Top Movers report was…

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Bing Ads Is Getting A Slick New Look That Will Feel Familiar

Bing is unveiling a new look that will start showing up in the web interface next week. The new design makes trend graphs immediately visible, has simplified navigation and generally looks a lot like Google AdWords. That’s by design, of course. The Bing Ads team has been making a point of…

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Bing Ads Refines Local Targeting Features

Today, Bing Ads released new interface updates and features for location targeting. Radius targeting is now more granular and available in kilometers as well as miles. You can set radius targeting in 1 mile or 1 kilometer increments, up to 500 miles or…

Bing Ads Lays Out Plans For Coming Year: More Scale, New Ad Formats, Eventually Automation

“As great as this past year was, I’m more excited about FY15 than I’ve ever been,” said Microsoft’s David Pann, General Manager for the Search Network, by phone this week about Bing Ads as the company starts its next fiscal year. “All the fundamentals are…

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