
Supercharge your email marketing with Google AdWords
I have a confession to make. The odds of my instantly deleting one of the many marketing emails I receive each day are about as good as...

The vicious cycle of ROAS targets is killing your business
Your marketing team is hard at work tweaking ads and landing pages to drive efficiency and hit the targets set for them by the C-suite....

Google’s new custom intent audiences and you
In mid-November, pre-empting the hellish holiday shopping season, Google unveiled a slew of new features designed to help advertisers...

Which PPC metrics matter? Lessons from half a million keywords
Are your AdWords campaigns working… like, really working? That might be a surprisingly hard question to answer. Anybody with an AdWords...

Is holiday paid search more competitive in 2017 than 2016?
The busy 2017 holiday shopping season is now in full swing, and we’ve already witnessed impressive Y/Y sales growth on key shopping days....

The importance of targeting branded searches
Search experts understand the importance of targeting non-branded search terms: Optimizing for high-volume, non-branded terms can drive a...

Omnichannel shoppers collide with Black Friday and Cyber Monday, setting new records
Black Friday and Cyber Monday continue to gain cultural significance across the US and the globe as shoppers and retailers deepen their...

PPC agencies will play these 4 roles when automation takes over
Earlier this year, I wrote about how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are driving automation in PPC and then again about...

How your website redesign can sabotage your paid search efforts
Recently, my PPC agency almost declined to take on a new client because the client’s website was so severely outdated. The site looked...

2-step methodology for dealing with PPC performance downturns
The most important thing I’ve learned from my 15 years of PPC experience is that sooner or later, account performance will take a...

Google’s all-new, quite counterintuitive guide to ad testing
Over 2 1/2 years ago, I wrote about how ad rotation works in AdWords. Since then, a whole lot has changed. Most recently, we’ve...

How to steal the competition’s best keywords: A 3-step guide
Whether you’re new to paid search or an old pro, one of your biggest challenges is figuring out the right keywords. Pick the right...

7 Google tips to supercharge your Shopping ads
Shopping ads are great, and they continue to improve. If you’re looking to get more out of your Shopping campaigns, there are some...

3 last-minute Google Shopping tricks to level up your account for the holidays
We’ve all heard the classic holiday jingle about Kris Kringle’s holiday prep: First, he makes a list, then he checks it twice. (He’s...

5 surprising paid-search insights to help you win the holidays
Whether you are ready or not, here come the holidays! Black Friday is only three Fridays away, and it — along with the holiday season...

15 ways to ride the audience wave
If you aren’t riding the wave of targeting options that revolve around audiences, you’re both wasting budget and missing out on what...

Using Google Customer Match to optimize PPC campaign performance
With a “people-based” approach to your search marketing, you can improve the cross-channel customer experience, optimize PPC campaign...

7 tips to ramp up your holiday advertising
It’s never too early to start thinking about holiday advertising, as Q4 is the biggest quarter for many retailers. Naturally, many of our...

Creating a B2B and B2C overlap strategy
B2B and B2C search marketing efforts are two different animals. From keyword development to prequalifying searchers through ad text,...
























