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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3 Things You Can Do To Push Through Your PPC Plateau

Online advertisers are in it for the long haul, and like any long-term relationship, it takes work to succeed. If you’ve been working on a PPC account for a long time, you’ve been through the ups and downs together. You know what works and what doesn’t. You “get” the business, and you…

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The Post-Google Local Survival Guide

Ask any local SEO worth their salt, and they will tell you that the Pigeon algorithm update has been a kind of big shift in local search results. Traditionally, when an algorithm update causes a major shift in the SERPs, SEOs adjust their strategy and tactics accordingly. Consider this: we had a…

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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 Keyword Planner Now Shows Conversion Estimates

Google announced today that conversion estimates have been added to the Keyword Planner tool in AdWords. Google will use an account’s historical conversion data, or users can enter their own conversion rates and conversion values to see how bid changes might impact metrics such as estimated…

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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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Local Directories May Survive Google’s New Local Knowledge Pack

Total Google Traffic New K-PackLast week, Google started to switch out its local Carousel results for a new set of mobilish-type pack results that appear to rely heavily on its local Knowledge Panels, so let’s call it a Knowledge Pack, or “K-Pack”, for the purposes of this post. In his seminal post Some Thoughts On The New Pak Results […]

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Replace (Not Provided) With Behavioural Analysis & Fuzzy Matching To Boost SEO

Worried about your site’s bounce rate? Columnist Chris Liversidge details how to identify and fix problem pages using Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools.

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