
In the age of intelligent agents, how does marketing work?
Amazon Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Google Assistant, Microsoft’s Cortana. These intelligent agents, and their more limited bot cousins, have...

Responsive ads for the Google Display Network: 6 months in
At the Google Performance Summit in May 2016, Google announced responsive ads for display, which subsequently rolled out to advertiser...

Alexa, can you acquire new customers for marketers?
The family of Amazon Alexa devices “Alexa, order ketchup.” “Okay. Would you like me to re-order Heinz –“ “Sure.” “– or would you like to...

Why Google shutting down Map Maker should terrify SMBs
bad press due to the amount of spam that originates from users of the product. In May of 2015, Map Maker was actually shut down to help...

Is Google’s AMP carousel working? (Or, SEO insights from Kanye West)
They also provide a brand showcase publishers should love. AMP “Top Stories” scrolling rich card carousel in Google mobile search But...

How your startup should be using Google AdWords
The Farm SoHo or CoCo Minneapolis, or working from a home office, the harsh environment of Google AdWords can feel like a trap. Where do...

Should you create device-specific PPC campaigns?
On February 6, 2013, Google announced Enhanced Campaigns, coupling devices together to encourage (nod nod wink wink) the development of...

Finally going mobile-friendly, but on a collision course with Google’s mobile-first index [Cas
This fall was packed with announcements about Google’s mobile-first index. First, Gary Illyes gave a keynote at Pubcon and dropped a bomb...

Reserve with Google: Deeper booking integration through search and Maps
Local search is becoming much more transactional. Google previously worked with a range of third-party providers to bring online...

Google agrees to change when it scans emails for ad targeting
Google agreed to change its email scanning practice on Tuesday as part of a court settlement, The Verge first reported. The changes...

No targeting in Google Display & Video ad groups? Ads can soon show across Google Display Netwo
Google has announced that, beginning in January, ad groups in Google video and display campaigns that do not have any targeting set at...

Digital assistants, conversational search and the future of local
Traditional search has us conditioned to speak like cavemen: choppy sentences, verbs optional. But that’s all starting to change with the...

“Power of search” keeps Google #1 with WPP; Facebook poised for #2; Snapchat gaining
Copyright by World Economic Forum/Photo by Michael Wuertenberg What keeps Google at the top of WPP’s media supplier list? “The power of...

Google restricts TrueView video ad rotation settings to “Optimize for views” only
Bloomicon / Shutterstock.com If you’re running video campaigns on Google properties and have set ad rotations to Optimize for conversions...

New wave of referrer spam wrecking Google Analytics data
The problem can even be so significant for small business sites that it seriously distorts the number of sessions and page views. In the...

Ad extensions for the entire decision journey
Not only do ad extensions work to encourage immediate sales, but they can also be used to move consumers along the decision journey/buy...

How Google is tackling fake news, and why it should not do it alone
Fact-checking and preventing fake news from appearing in search results will remain a big priority for search engines in 2017. Following...

Google’s shift to mobile-first: mobile moments that matter
Kashin / Shutterstock.com Eric Schmidt predicted that sales of smartphones would surpass PCs more than six years ago, as the then-Google...

SEO without search results is here with Google Assistant, Home and Amazon Echo. Here’s how to surviv
On the first full day that we had a Google Home in our house, we interacted with it 473 times over the course of the day. Four hundred of...
























