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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3rd-Party Campaign Management Platforms: A Secret To Search Ads Success
Contributor John Cosley shares data from Bing Ads that quantify the benefits of using a third-party tool to manage search ad campaigns.
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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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Expert Insights On The Future Of SEO, Part 2
In today’s installment, search industry veterans predict where SEO will be in 2020.
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Tackling AdWords’ New Default Close Variants Matching Behavior
Contributor Benjamin Vigneron explores the new default behavior and finds an efficient negative keyword strategy is more important than ever.
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Close Variants Come To Broad Match Modifier In Bing Ads
A couple of weeks ago, Bing Ads announced it is testing close variants keyword matching on exact and phrase match terms. Today, they added close variants for broad match modifier keywords in the U.S. Using close variants means that the search engine wi…
Survey Reveals Google RLSA Performance Benchmarks & The Promise Of Cross-Channel Retargeting
Contributor Matt Ackley shares insights gleaned from a survey of 224 marketers about their retargeting practices and performance.
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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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Expert Insights On The Future Of SEO, Part 1
Do you have the skills it will take to thrive in the SEO environment of the future? In the first of this 3-part series, search industry veterans weigh in on how things will be different in 2015.
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Bid Management Science Explained
Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes with your bid management software? Learn more about how your bids are calculated.
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How To Prove The Value Of SEO Without Drowning In Data
Having a tough time communicating the value of SEO to your C-Suite? Erin Everhart provides some tips on how to tackle this common issue.
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AdWords Adds Single Currency Reporting For Conversion Values
AdWords advertisers that accept multiple currencies on their sites or apps can now track ad-driven conversion values in a single currency. The change means sales will be converted into the same currency as the billing settings in an AdWords account. Ad…
Managing The Very Short Tail: 9 Tips To Manage A 10 Keyword Account
Everybody loves the long-tail and diversified PPC accounts. However, sometimes these ideals just aren’t possible. Some accounts inherently have only a short tail. This applies heavily to lead gen advertisers that measure post-lead activity to determine actual profitability. Are the insurance…
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Hearing The Rhythms Of Human Search Behavior: What We’ve Learned
Watching people search is great entertainment. It’s not a one-note performance. It’s an all-day, around-the-clock jazz show, with the performers constantly changing their themes, rhythms, even their instruments. Along the way, one gains some great insight into human behavior and how…
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Bing Ads Puts Insertion Order Management Online
Agencies or advertisers that have invoice billing enabled and use Bing Ads Insertion Orders can now create and approve IOs online rather than having to rely on email or fax. This has been a top request among agencies, in particular. Insertion orders ca…
Bing Ads Puts Estimated Keyword Bid Suggestions In Columns, Adds Keyword Delivery Status Alerts
Bing Ads launched a couple of relatively small but helpful features today. Both bring keyword status and bid insights into closer parity with Google AdWords. To get a better understanding of where keyword bids stand in relation to the competition, Bing…
The New Data Currency In A Digital World
The list of options on the performance marketing menu has been growing steadily. Whereas search had historically been the primary channel for direct marketers to drive leads and revenue, the array of opportunities has been increasing within the social …
The 10 Most Important Paid Search Developments So Far In 2014
It’s been a big year so far for product listing ads on both Google and Bing. Google started putting more ads in the Knowledge Graph. Bing followed Google’s lead on combining tablet and desktop traffic. And Google said it would begin stripping paid search queries from referrer strings….
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Mobile Calls Are The New Conversions: 7 Tips For SEMs
Are you seeing depressing plateaus, or even declines, in your year-over-year conversion numbers? The fact is that a huge portion of search activity is moving to mobile. Soon, mobile activity will account for over 50% of searches. The problem is that the mobile conversions don’t follow the…
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How Hard Should You Press The Gas Pedal In Paid Search?
The following post contains a number of metaphors strained to the breaking point; viewer discretion is advised. An enduring truth in the paid search business is that paid search managers and marketing teams spend far more time thinking about tactical m…