Remarketing Lists For Search Ads Can Now Use Conversion-Based Automated Bid Strategies In AdWords

Now when you enable AdWords conversion-based automated bid strategies in your Remarketing Lists For Search Ads campaigns, the predicted conversion performance of those remarketing lists will influence the bidding. Google announced on its Google+ page t…

Google Issues Best Practices For Shopping Campaigns Ahead Of This Summer’s Big Transition

With Shopping Campaigns becoming the default campaign type for running Product Listing Ads on Google by the end of August, the search giant has issued a best practices whitepaper to help marketers make the transition. The main points the paper dives in…

Remarketing Tips Born Of Years Of Experience

Retargeting is an awesome way to reengage traffic that hasn’t converted. Over the years, it’s evolved, and the tools have become more robust. With this development, we’ve uncovered some effective remarketing strategies. In this article, I’ll cover some ideas related to…

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Does Google’s “Search Ads Lift Brand Awareness” Study Mean What It Says?

Google is touting a new study this week that concludes “Search Ads Lift Brand Awareness.” What the study should be titled, though, is “The Top Search Ad Lifts Brand Awareness”. This was a meta-study in which several studies were conducted by Google and Ipsos MediaCT across a…

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Will Google & Bing Penalize Microsoft Over Their Sponsored Post Campaign For Internet Explorer?

This morning, news broke that Microsoft Internet Explorer is getting help from SocialChorus to build more awareness for the aging browser by way of sponsored posts. Michael Arrington posted on his site an email from the company, soliciting him into thi…

Google Partners With ESPN To Deliver 2014 World Cup Video Highlights

Recode.com reported today that Google has partnered with ESPN to deliver video highlights for World Cup related searches. According to Recode.com, Google’s “in-line” search results for World Cup queries will include a screen shot of ESPN’s World Cup video footage and link…

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Live Blog: Matt Cutts Keynote Q&A At SMX Advanced 2014

Day one of our SMX Advanced conference is wrapping up, but before we call it a day … it’s time for an SMX Advanced tradition: Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s webspam fighting team, in a keynote conversation with our Founding Editor, Danny Sullivan. With all of the recent news…

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Optmyzr Launches Bid Management Solution For Google Shopping Campaigns

Google’s new Shopping Campaigns offer many benefits over traditional PLA campaigns, including granular performance benchmarks, but bid optimization can still be cumbersome. Optmyzr, the company that provides automation tools for Google AdWords management, has launched a new tool to help…

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Keylime Toolbox And Moz Analytics Debut “Not Provided” Data Recovery Solutions

Today, two companies announced new solutions to help solve the “not provided” problem that leaves SEOs in the dark about the search queries that lead users to their sites. Moz has added a new report to Moz Analytics, and Keylime Toolbox is a new company offering SEO Analytics Software…

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How To Manage Bids For AdWords Shopping Ads

Last month, I covered the basics of how Shopping campaigns in AdWords differ from Search campaigns. The key finding I had was that, with Search, you have to add keywords to target more queries. In Shopping, all queries that match your products are targ…