
Seriously, Google, can you just make exact match exact?
In case you haven’t heard, Google has decided to ignore function words and word order for exact match keywords. If you just want to know...

Facebook adopts header bidding to make its ad network more competitive with Google’s
Long story short: Facebook’s ad network is challenging ad networks run by Google and others to see who can get publishers the best deals...

Google thaws (a little) on defamation cases
Google’s recent freeze on granting defamation removal requests has thawed a little. Even so, the company’s actions around harmful and...

What happens when Google pushes into branding and messaging?
If you’re in the business of marketing, you know how important branding is to your clients. And this is true whether it’s a print...

Google announces new brand safety controls for display & video advertisers
A day after Matt Britton, Google’s EMEA head of operations, apologized for advertisers’ ads appearing adjacent to extremist content —...

Three foolproof steps to excellent AdWords ads
Communicating in the digital age has never been easier. Yet for every single message we send — no matter how simple — we’re required to...

Advice for AMP-curious publishers
The Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project has some big numbers on the scoreboard: More than 860,000 domains are publishing over 35...

Google is making a big change to exact match keyword targeting in AdWords
On Friday afternoon, Google announced another change to the way exact match keyword targeting works for search ads. Matching for close...

ANA calls for independent audits of ads in the ‘walled gardens’
All “walled gardens” need some windows. That’s the essential message from the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), which today...

Havas, the Guardian, British govt. blacklist Google, YouTube for ‘unacceptable’ ad place
Google’s programmatic advertising network is coming under fire for supporting extremist sites and content at the expense of the brand...

New location extension ad format now live on Google Display Network
Google is bringing information about local advertisers to a new display ad format on the Google Display Network. The new location...

Report: Facebook’s display ad domination to grow as US digital ad spend hits $83B in 2017
The US digital ad market will grow 15.9 percent in 2017 to top $83 billion, with growth dominated by Google and Facebook, eMarketer...

3 free AdWords testing tools to adopt today
As advertisers, we can’t afford to ignore data in our decision-making. Since you probably just sighed a little bit or rolled your eyes at...

Google AdWords’ view-through conversion window will soon default to 1 day
The change will apply to all conversion actions added after March 29. All existing conversion actions that are set to the default...

Google rolls out free Data Studio globally, improves filters & other features
Google has now rolled out the free version of its reporting tool, Data Studio, globally and made several improvements to the tool,...

How to use Google Tag Manager to show your clients results
Are you tired of asking your web developer to add code, snippets, pixels or scripts to your site so you can track remarketing,...

How to monitor Google Knowledge Graph changes and performance
Google’s Knowledge Graph is a very prominent part of organic search results. By now, searchers are accustomed to seeing the panel that...

Google tells retailers the Trusted Stores program is shutting down
Google began notifying Google Trusted Stores merchants last week that the program will soon wind down. In its place will be Google...

Google’s location tracking is better now than ever before
In April 2015, I wrote about Google’s progress in steadily tracking more and more user locations to ZIP codes. As ZIP codes are the most...
























