
Google sunsets its AdSense plugin for WordPress
Google AdSense has sunsetted its WordPress plugin this month. Publishers can no longer install it on their sites. As of April 5, 2017,...

Do you know what a mobile crawl of your site looks like?
If you follow the world of Google and search at all, you’ve heard about Google’s intent to switch to a mobile-first index. In this post,...

Sharing is caring: Click share and post-holiday shopping success
Click share is a key way to gauge the success of your Shopping campaigns. The metric shows you the percentage of total possible clicks...

5 ways you can improve your new business’s visibility on Google Maps
New businesses need all the help they can get to attract customers, generate revenue and establish themselves to compete with existing...

Need to contact Google My Business support? Use Twitter!
It’s the end of the month, and that means it’s time for another edition of Greg’s Soapbox! Except this time, it’s not so much me standing...

Brand safety: Avoiding fake & hyperpartisan news on the Google Display Network
What does online brand safety mean in the age of hyperpartisan, sensationalized and fake news content? With programmatic targeting and...

Google isn’t actually tackling ‘fake news’ content on its ad network
Why are my Google display campaigns running on “XYZ-Hyperpartisan-Site” with less-than-accurate or altogether false articles? That’s the...

Links to AMP content are showing up outside of search results
The Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) standard was designed to bring the fast-loading, clean experience of native apps to the open web. With...

Are you leveraging these underutilized Google Analytics features?
IB Photography / Shutterstock.com If you’re a digital marketer these days, odds are extremely good that web analytics is a major part of...

A review of free PPC reporting solutions from Google
Doing PPC reporting right often involves some trade-offs between time and money. The perfect report takes a lot of time to build — time...

Has machine learning created a new model for SEO ranking?
The way Google ranks pages in its search results today is much different from the way it ranked them two years ago. Why? In early 2015,...

7 ways small retailers can compete with retail giants using Google Shopping
To a small niche retailer, it can seem daunting (almost pointless) to invest too heavily in Google Shopping. After all, how could you...

Hyperlocal marketing will soar in 2017: 5 tips to stay on top
The conversation about local search is not a new one; marketers have been discussing the importance of targeting customers by location...

Google’s YouTube to undergo MRC audits for video viewability measurement
Google announced Tuesday that the Media Rating Council (MRC), the media industry’s measurement monitor, will be auditing YouTube’s...

YouTube’s unskippable 30-second video ads will sunset next year
Twin Design / Shutterstock.com YouTube has announced that it will no longer support 30-second video ads that users can’t skip, starting...

How to spice up your TrueView audience strategy on YouTube
A 2016 study by comScore showed that adults are 30 percent more likely to choose online video over TV when given a choice of where to...

7 tips for small manufacturers thinking about using AdWords
In my 17 years as a B2B SEO and marketing consultant, I hadn’t really considered giving PPC a go until Google changed the layout for its...

How ads on Google for its own products can impact the prices other advertisers pay
The mechanics of those efforts can be hard to follow if you aren’t familiar with the AdRank system Google uses to decide which ads to...

The impact (and lack thereof) of Google’s mobile popup algorithm
It’s not often that Google announces an algorithm update in advance. But when they do, not only can webmasters prepare for that update,...
























