
Bring Your Work Home: How To Use Google AdWords To Improve Your Love Life
If you’re like most online marketers, you know that it can be hard to strike a good work-life balance. Sometimes, that can put a strain...

Google Search Partner Network: Friend Or Foe?
The Google Search Network gives advertisers the ability to gain additional AdWords traffic and conversions from users across the web, as...

4 Search Advertising Trends To Watch
At this time of year, it’s worthwhile to consider what’s likely to occur in search advertising in 2016, so you can adjust your strategy...

Get Your Priorities Straight: Structuring Google Shopping Campaigns
I’m a big fan of Google Shopping. As a user, it provides an easy-to-use platform for comparing products and prices at a glance. Instead...

PPC Geo-Bidding, Simplified
Recently, I came across a social media post that — honest to goodness — went on at length about the price the poster would be willing to...

Brand Bidding & PPC Optimization: How We Got Here (Part 1 of 8)
Welcome to part 1 of a series for search marketers on brand bidding and PPC optimization. This series will answer the biggest question...

The State Of Cross-Channel Paid Search, Part 1: SEM & Social
In just about every survey ever conducted on the value of a cross-channel marketing approach, most marketers acknowledge that using...

New Google Research: Can The Long Tail Be Covered Without Broad Match?
Google talks all the time about the necessity of broad match. As a representative of Google, I’ve argued the importance of this match...

PPC Blunders: Downright Dirty, Inexperienced Or Overwhelmed?
We’ve all been through it: inheriting a PPC account that someone else has managed. And we’ve all had that “WTF” moment after looking...

Click-to-Call: 5 Surprising Insights About the Automotive Industry
The automotive industry is no stranger to click-to-call advertising, where there is an estimated $4 billion spend on Google call...

Create A Killer PPC Strategy With This 3-Step Process
Throughout my digital marketing career, I’ve had the good fortune to audit numerous paid search accounts. Many of these accounts are...

11 Things To Do Now To Keep Your AdWords Healthy In 2016
At the turn of every year, predictions are made about what the top trends for the next year will be. I contributed my own predictions to...

Q4 Search Spend Up 8 Percent, While Social Ad Spend Rose 50 Percent [Report]
Global search ad spend rose eight percent year over year in Q4 2015, while social advertising jumped 50 percent year over year among...

Automate Your Way To Search Marketing Success
As it’s the time for New Year’s resolutions — high ideals we aim for in order to improve our lives in any number of ways — my advice to...

How Much Did Countdown Ads Play Into Search Advertisers’ Strategies This Holiday Season?
At the end of 2014, I wrote that dynamic copy needed to be an integral part of paid search advertisers’ 2015 arsenal. I spoke to the...

Is Your Paid Search Account Leaking Money? The Importance Of Query Mapping
There’s never a bad time to look for efficiencies within your account. Of course, there are the obvious things to look for: keyword bids,...

How Apple Could Play Spoiler For The Search Ad Business
With the start of a new year, it’s a fitting time to reflect on all that happened in the previous year and look ahead to what this next...

Cut The Fat: How To Reduce Wasted Ad Spend In Your AdWords Account
AdWords is a great place to waste money. Google makes it so easy — a few minutes of effort, and you are well on your way to giving them...

Marriage Equality, Healthcare & Low Unemployment: How Search Marketers Can Make A Difference Thi
As the marketing world recovers from the Hunger Games-eque madness that was the holiday retail season, we know this rest period is but...