
Understanding intent through voice search
Bing and Google are looking at the future of search, and both are seeing a future that involves search engines as the intelligence...

Brand bidding & PPC optimization: enforcement options (Part 6 of 8)
Welcome to Part 6 of an eight-part series on PPC brand bidding, where I answer the biggest question facing PPC advertisers in 2016: How...

The 4 Cs: A recipe for precise remarketing campaigns
Last fall, I had a great time participating in “The Great PPC Account Structure Debate” at SMX East. And I loved reading how the debate...

First-page minimum bids continue to rise in wake of Google desktop SERP changes
We’re just about a month out from Google’s sweeping changes to desktop SERPs, in which text ads were removed entirely from the right-hand...

From waste to win: watch how a simple change affects AdWords performance
Over the past two years, we’ve audited more than 2,000 AdWords accounts at Disruptive Advertising. I’ve written at length elsewhere about...

A century of celebrating Mom: smart ad strategies for the mother of all holidays
In 1914, Woodrow Wilson signed a bill recognizing Mother’s Day as a national holiday. A century later, the holiday has become much more...

Image-driven mobile ads for automakers now available on Google in the US
You may recall that Google announced new mobile ad formats for specific verticals about a year ago, one version of which was a test for...

Google kicks off a redesign of AdWords
Google showed off a first look at the redesign of AdWords currently underway. The company is overhauling the look of AdWords, which has...

3 upcoming trends in paid search
Recently, we’ve seen some fairly significant changes on the search engine results pages (SERPs). Right-rail ads have disappeared, and on...

The state of cross-channel paid search, part 3: SEM & display
In the first part of this series on cross-channel paid search, I posited that cross-channel marketing will one day be the standard for...

Brand bidding & PPC optimization: Reducing your competition (Part 5 of 8)
Welcome to Part 5 of an eight-part series on PPC brand bidding, where I answer the biggest question facing PPC advertisers in 2016: How...

New benchmarks: Google AdWords cost per acquisition across 20 industries [study]
Are you getting the biggest bang for your AdWords buck? It’s hard to gauge if you’re only looking at your own performance and competing...

Google’s right-side Adpocalypse: What really happened (DATA)
About a month ago, Google confirmed the death of right sidebar ads for desktop search results. Search Engine Land paid media reporter...

5 dos and don’ts of managing a new international PPC account
You’re a US-based PPC manager, and you’ve just been tasked with overseeing an international account for the first time. What do you do?...

Get up close with PPC KPIs to improve your performance
There are many paid search metrics that can define success in an account. In one account, the goal may be to reduce the cost per...

How advertisers should respond to fewer ads showing on Google
nito / Shutterstock.com After a quiet start to the year with few notable changes in AdWords, the last month has seen a lot of interesting...

App streaming comes to Google search ads: Android users can try out apps for 10 minutes
Google app streaming allows users to experience apps for a limited time right from the search results. Now that experience is coming to...

Consumers shape new world of search advertising
Since Bing entered the search space just over six years ago, the landscape has transformed, technology has advanced, and the changes are...

Brand Bidding & PPC Optimization: Partner Relationships (Part 4 of 8)
Welcome to Part 4 of my series on PPC brand bidding. This article covers working with partners and affiliates to corner the search engine...