
3 PPC Trends And Tactics You Can’t Ignore In 2016
Trends come and go in every industry, and it’s no different for paid search. This year, we saw brands adopting more methods and AdWords...

Can You Guess What Was The Most Shared AdWords Content In 2015?
With 2015 wrapping up, let’s take a look at what articles related to AdWords got the most social sharing activity. I used BuzzSumo to...

The Six Quality Score & Ad Rank Questions Everyone Has For Google
Ad quality and Quality Score (the 1–10 metric in AdWords) are possibly the most debated things in all of AdWords. I think once you...

Paid Search 2015: Many Changes That Will Have An Impact In 2016
Another year, another whirlwind in paid search. What marked 2015 wasn’t one big change, like 2013’s Enhanced Campaigns, or even 2014’s...

The Search For An Optimal AdWords CPC
As we are approaching the end of the year, and the time has come to get into a reflective mood, I wanted to return to a nice little...

Scan Your Landing Pages With AdWords Scripts
One of the classic tasks to automate with scripts is checking all your URLs for 404 errors. Google has their own Link Checker script, for...

Grabbing Those Last-Minute Holiday Sales With Search
According to a survey by the National Retail Foundation (NRF), 55.8 percent of holiday shoppers will splurge on themselves and/or others...

Marketer’s Guide: Paid Media Campaign Management Platforms
The paid media marketing landscape has become increasingly complex, as the speed of search engine algorithms and development changes...

10 Reasons Why You, The Search Marketer, Can Call Yourself A Data Scientist
A standard definition for the job described as “data scientist” hasn’t yet been agreed upon, but the common denominator among the various...

The Globalization Of Local Holidays: China’s Singles’ Day Catches On In US
Christmas. Hannukah. Kwanzaa. Festivus. As e-commerce retailers are in the throes of prime holiday shopping bidding wars, there may be a...

The Never-Before-Seen AdWords Data Points That Have Been Quietly Rolled Out To Your Account
When I started writing this article a couple of weeks ago, I was going to write a guide to the data points that are available in the new...

RLSA Vs. Customer Match In AdWords: Similar But Different
Google’s recently released Customer Match (CM) product allows advertisers to load email addresses into audience lists in AdWords to use...

No Conversions Set? No Problem. AdWords Debuts Automated Smart Goals
Without conversion data, optimizing AdWords campaigns simply isn’t possible. Many small advertisers don’t have the expertise to properly...

Six Steps To AdWords Conversion Tracking Bliss
To those of you who are still using Converted clicks as your primary success metric in AdWords: It’s time to change. The era of the...

New Insights: The Consumer Journey For Electronics
Understanding the twists and turns consumers take on their path to purchasing electronics is an important step in capturing their...

TrueView For Shopping: Making YouTube The Next Big Shopping Destination
Shopping campaigns, or Product Listing Ads (PLAs), have proved revolutionary for AdWords e-commerce. They combine a visually engaging...

5 Things New Advertisers Need To Know About Google AdWords Campaign Settings
The vast majority of experienced paid search advertisers fully understand Google AdWords campaign settings. However, these settings often...

Are Paid & Organic Search Distinct Channels? Not So Fast.
At our company’s informal book club, we recently had a nice discussion of David Hand’s The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences,...

AdWords Shopping Ads Enhancements: A Roundup
The AdWords team behind shopping ads has been very busy improving their offering, with at least 11 major new capabilities launched in the...