
Google Says Vendor Was Responsible For AdWords Account Manager’s Shocking Voice Mail
We received a response from Google in which they claim it was an outside vendor, not a Google employee, who left the unintended message....

Paid Search Can’t Scale Without Help
Whether you’re a brand or an agency, arguably the best place to be is to not know where to spend your next marketing dollar. It’s the...

Google AdWords Enhanced Campaigns Roll-Out, Slowly: Broader CPC Impact Yet To Be Seen
The verdict is still out on how enhanced campaigns will affect advertiser costs. Many have predicted enhanced campaigns will increase...

Is The Art Of Paid Search Marketing Dead?
If you are a regular reader of this column, then you know I have a tendency to reminisce about the old days of digital marketing and the...

Studies Show Google Enhanced Campaigns Fuel AdWords CPC Rise
Early reports from Adobe and iProspect seem to show the higher CPC theory bearing out. Adobe found CPCs rose 6 percent across devices in...

Unboxing Google Engage
While the agency world’s demise has been the subject of quite a bit of opinion over the years, it seems Google is embracing the fact that...

The Changing Definition of Inbound Marketing: Why SEOs & SEMs Should Care
There’s been a lot of talk over the past few days about inbound marketing – see this discussion at Inbound.org in response to Rand...

EU-Google “Rival Links” Antitrust Settlement Provision Creates New Controversy
settlement with the company earlier this year. It’s a highly problematic issue from a legal standpoint but it’s the one Google’s critics...

Enhanced: Today’s Pain, Tomorrow’s Love
Feature roll-outs with APIs and a little bit of insanity in trying to get your numbers to match up are all necessary bumps on the road to...

Key Learnings On The PLA Marketplace
Google’s switch to an all-paid shopping search experience, featuring Product Listing Ads (PLAs), was the single largest change to the...

Yahoo Confidential: The Real Story
Everyone in the digital marketing business knows it sucks, and efforts to turn the place into Google have yet to achieve fruition. Sure,...

How Google’s Enhanced Campaigns Affect Your Ad Scheduling Strategy
Before getting into ad scheduling strategies for Google’s Enhanced Campaigns, let’s review Paid Search Trends for March. CPCs remained...

Product Listing Ads Remain Strong – Paid Search Trends For February 2013
Cost-Per-Clicks (CPC) fell across the board month-over-month, as is typical for February, resulting in a 5% lower CPC for Google and 3%...

Google Launches AdWords Enhanced Campaigns To Reach More Mobile Users
The goal is to make it easier for advertisers to target searchers on all sorts of devices. In short, too many advertisers only focus on...

To Pay Or Not To Pay, That Is The Power Shopping Question
Much hype, and many public relations wars, has been waged over the last couple of months centering on the physical dynamics of paying...

Google’s CPC Drop Bottoms Out? — Paid Search Trends For January 2013
This is the first installment of a regular column following cost-per-click (CPC) trends in search marketing. We will focus primarily on...

The Great Exaggeration: Optimization
Search practitioners coined the term and drove the movement from the earliest days — wielding a love for data, crude original campaign...

5 Ways To Know How To Say No (To Potential Clients Or Agencies)
How many times have you been asked any of the above questions? How far would you go to prove yourself worthy of providing the answers?...

Are Search Agencies Becoming Dinosaurs?
I remember nearly our entire company going to the meeting (there were only four of us, and three attended the meeting). I remember the...