
Digital advertising 2017: A year of reckoning in review
Digital advertising 2017 by the numbers: Poised for a big year: The first quarter of 2017 represented the strongest beginning to any year...

3 ways Gmail has changed email marketing
Like it or not, email deliverability can make or break your brand’s email marketing strategy. And now that Google is in the driver’s...

5 local search tactics your competitors probably aren’t using
Local SEO is competitive and fierce. With more and more local businesses vying for the Google local three-pack — and ads and online...

AdWords advertisers can use phone numbers & addresses for Google Customer Match targeting
Google has added more ways for businesses to target their known customers with AdWords campaigns. As of this month, advertisers can...

Google Manufacturer Center for product data expands scope, launches API
Launched in 2015, Google Manufacturer Center was designed to be a central repository for the product data that powers Google Shopping...

Report: YouTube set to raise ad prices on premium ad inventory
Even as it has hit several brand safety bumps over the past year, YouTube is poised to raise prices on premium ad inventory in the coming...

Google releases Android Go edition for India’s 400 million internet users
Kashin / Shutterstock.com Google has released Android Oreo (Go edition), which is part of the larger Android 8.1 release. The new version...

Forecast: US display advertising to grow 70% by 2021, with social and mobile drivers
Forrester Research is out with its new US display advertising forecast through 2021. The firm says that mobile, video and social media...

Coming to terms with fake reviews
Consumers overwhelmingly expect the reviews they peruse on Amazon, Yelp, Google and other review sites to be trustworthy, neutral and...

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...

Google’s new #SmallThanks Hub automatically creates digital & printed marketing assets fo
In a move to help SMBs — as well as drive up its verified business listings — Google has launched #SmallThanks Hub, an online resource...

Is the featured snippet bubble bursting?
This article was co-authored with my colleague at Go Fish Digital, Chris Long. We’ve been bullish on answer boxes (also known as featured...

Private blog networks: A great way to get your site penalized
You may have heard about private blog networks (PBNs) before, but you may not be sure what they are or why they are used. A PBN is a...

YouTube launches ticket sales partnership with Ticketmaster in the US
YouTube has partnered with Ticketmaster, making it possible for artists to include upcoming concert tour dates within their music videos....

8 game-changing SEO trends that will dominate 2018
With over 200 factors in Google’s algorithm, SEO is a complex science. But it’s not how much you need to know that makes it really...

Salesforce announces data integrations with Google Analytics 360
To help customers gain more insights into their marketing campaigns’ impact on the customer journey, Salesforce and Google have announced...

Do Google Posts impact ranking? A case study
A few months ago, I teamed up with Ben Fisher from Steady Demand to test whether Google Posts have any influence on ranking in the local...

Fake ads, Russians and regulation: Facebook, Google and Twitter face a moment of crisis
Even as a handful of internet companies are consolidating their control over online advertising and commerce, they confront a moment of...

The Google Analytics Social channel is broken: Here’s how to fix it
In some cases, that’s also its biggest nightmare. Why? Because in some cases, the presets in Google Analytics don’t show you what you...