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My Favorite PPC Tool, And How I Save Countless Hours Using It
Disclosure: I have no affiliation with Adalysis and have not been paid for this review. One of the longest lasting ideas I had stored in...
Tax Season #PPC: 4 Tips to Improve Your Tax-Related Campaigns
Tax season – the most nail-biting time of the year – is upon us. With nationwide unemployment below 7% and trending lower, filing volumes are...
8 Ways to Sell More Online With Behavioral Psychology
Here are eight ways to leverage psychology to sell more online, with concrete examples you can implement instantly.
Your Google Shopping Campaign Strategy: Targeting Brand vs. Non-Brand Terms
More and more advertisers are shifting budgets towards Google Shopping campaigns due to PLAs’ lower CPC and higher conversion rates. However, compared to text ads,...
Your Guide to Gmail Sponsored Promotions: Best Practices and Results
If you’re looking for a new paid advertising channel to explore in 2015, consider testing Gmail Sponsored Promotion (GSP). With our clients, we’ve found GSP...
5 Mistakes to Avoid in a Google Shopping Campaign
Google AdWords shopping campaigns are a great way to generate more sales but even the tiniest mistake can make the difference between the campaign being...
The Best New Features Of Google AdWords Editor Version 11
Google’s AdWords Editor 11 is said to be the biggest update since the tool first launched in 2006. With such an extensive update new features...
How Google’s Frequent Algorithm Updates Affect Paid Search
Google constantly rolls out changes to its search algorithm in an effort to provide users with the most useful results possible. As many as 500...
#ICYMI in 2014: 4 Paid Search Tactics Your Campaigns Can Still Benefit From In 2015
In 2014, there were a lot of new tactics and products to help influence a paid search campaign’s optimization strategies. In this post, I have...
3 Best Practices for Utilizing the Newest Bid Strategy for Outranking Competitors
Having a hard time out-bidding your biggest competitors with any of your keyword search campaigns? There’s a new, and more discreetly implemented bid strategy that...
3 Ways to Combat the New Laws of Close Variants
The world of PPC is ever-changing, and the newest rules make it that much harder to be an effective advertiser. In this post, we will go...
Online Advertising To Grow By 15% Over Next Two Years, Driven By Mobile And Display
A report released this week by ZenithOptimedia reveals projections for global ad spend in 2015, with online advertising said to be the fastest growing medium...
7 AdWords Features We Would Like to See in 2015
Google AdWords is adding new features at a fast pace, making it easier than ever for advertisers to manage a campaign. With 2015 approaching, I...
Who Placed that Ad? Yahoo Experiments with No Display URL in PPC Ads
While search marketing has certainly seen its share of change over the last decade and half, there have always been some things that remain constant....
How to Win The Battle on Google’s Product Listing Ads Field
There’s a battle going on right now and no online store is spared from it. The prize is high: Clicks and conversions and competition fierce....
How To Measure The Success Of Call Tracking: Interviews With Two Experts
At Pubcon 2014 in Las Vegas, I had the opportunity to catch up with two experts on call tracking: Chris Cox of Invoca, and John...
How to Enhance Mobile Pages to Increase Phone Leads
Have you ever Googled a business on your mobile device to order a pizza or just ask a question? The “Click to Call” feature on Google...
How To Spend Your Remarketing Budget Wisely: An Interview With Erin Sagin
At Pubcon 2014 in Las Vegas, the SEJ team had the opportunity to catch up Erin Sagin of Wordstream to talk about remarketing with PPC...
User Behavior, SEO Audits, Social Media: #StateofSearch 2014 Day One Recap
Day one at the Dallas-Ft. Worth Search Engine Marketing Association‘s State of Search conference was a full day: ten sessions plus a morning keynote by...
Hacking Your AdWords Quality Score: An Interview With Larry Kim
At Pubcon 2014 in Las Vegas I was able to sit down and talk to Larry Kim, CTO of Wordstream, about PPC hacks. Larry recently...
How to Have a Successful Bing Ads Campaign
Bing is an opportunity for any business to advertise at a typically lower cost than Google and reach a different audience. Even though a Bing campaign might...
How to Be Awesome At AdWords Scripting
AdWords scripts provide many ways to take PPC accounts to the next level with a (reasonably) straightforward method of streamlining repetitive tasks. This frees up time and...
Enterprise SEM & Big Data: An Interview with Ira Kates
At Pubcon Las Vegas I had the opportunity to catch up with Ira Kates, Sr. Digital Business Strategist at 360i to discuss his unique experiences...
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30% Of Google Ad Conversions Happen On Mobile [STUDY]
Marin Software recently published the results of a study they conducted, showing smartphones and tablets account for 30% of conversions on Google ads. As mobile...
Local Number Call Forwarding Coming To Google AdWords in November 2014
Google has updated its AdWords support section with a new entry on local number call forwarding, a new feature that’s said to be coming in...
New #MarketingNerds Podcast: AdWords and Paid Search Strategy
Visit our Marketing Nerds archive to listen to other Marketing Nerds podcasts! I was excited to record a podcast with Rocco and Christina Baldassarre, who are...
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Understanding Assist Clicks and Assisted Conversions [PART 1]
Google AdWords allows advertisers to add custom columns to their campaign statistics. Metrics include impression share, bid strategy type, shares, comments, follows, and more. One...
10 Ways to Improve Your Lead Quality from Search Engine Marketing Without a CRM
For lead generation marketers, cost per lead (CPL) used to be the most important KPI. During our introductory calls with new clients. I always ask...
Paid Search 101: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to #PPC Landing Pages
Before we get started, allow me first to make a necessary—albeit dangerous—assumption: If you’re reading this you have at least a cursory understanding of how...
How To Create AdWords Video Remarketing Campaigns: 3 Easy Steps
Video content is no longer on the rise – it has taken its place among the royalty of content sources. Videos cross our paths everywhere...