
New benchmarks: Google AdWords cost per acquisition across 20 industries [study]
Are you getting the biggest bang for your AdWords buck? It’s hard to gauge if you’re only looking at your own performance and competing...

Google’s right-side Adpocalypse: What really happened (DATA)
About a month ago, Google confirmed the death of right sidebar ads for desktop search results. Search Engine Land paid media reporter...

How advertisers should respond to fewer ads showing on Google
nito / Shutterstock.com After a quiet start to the year with few notable changes in AdWords, the last month has seen a lot of interesting...

The votes are in — for what Google’s new Analytics 360 Suite really means
“It’s like an earthquake that was predicted.” That’s how Gartner vice president Andrew Frank characterized Tuesday’s announcement from...

App streaming comes to Google search ads: Android users can try out apps for 10 minutes
Google app streaming allows users to experience apps for a limited time right from the search results. Now that experience is coming to...

Brand Bidding & PPC Optimization: Partner Relationships (Part 4 of 8)
Welcome to Part 4 of my series on PPC brand bidding. This article covers working with partners and affiliates to corner the search engine...

Why copying campaigns between search engines misses opportunities
Each month, users conduct more than 100 billion searches on search engines globally. And every day, a portion of the searches they...

How marketers should adjust to Google’s new search ad display
changes to Google’s search engine results pages (SERPs). This particular client was using a bid-to-position strategy and maybe enjoying a...

Smart Goals Roll Out To More AdWords Advertisers As Google Cuts The Eligibility Requirements In Half
Last year, Google announced Smart Goals, a nifty product that can help advertisers create programmatic conversions when a true conversion...

Google’s Take On The Recent Changes To The Results Page
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Google (my employer) recently removed text ads from the right-hand side of search results. At the same...

Google AdWords Customer Match: Common Questions & How To Answer Them
When Google released Customer Match last year, PPCers got very excited. For years we’ve been seeing a noticeable shift in focus from...

Connecting Demographics To Search Queries
Advertising in search is often difficult to conceptualize for many brands because of how different the live auction and targeting...

Google’s New SERP Layout: The Biggest Winners & Losers
Worried about the recent changes to Google’s ad layout on desktop search? Don’t be! I come to you today with a simple message: Keep calm....

What Google’s New Layout Means For Search Marketers
If you’ve noticed things shifting in Google’s SERPs, you’re not seeing things. This week, Google has been increasing the frequency of its...

The State Of Cross-Channel Paid Search, Part 2: SEM & TV
SEM and Social, I made the case that search marketers should be leading the charge in pushing their (or their client’s) organization...

Show Me The Money: Following The PPC Keywords That Make Dollars & Sense
Keywords and search queries can mean different things to different people. That’s where intent comes in. You might, for example, have one...

Google Compare Will Sunset In March
Google has informed its Compare partners that it will be shutting down the lead generation product for financial services as of March 23,...

Are Dynamic Search Ad Varieties A Waste Of Your Time?
Now, in 2016, we can use dynamic keyword insertion (DKI) in our ad headlines and description lines of an ad, and the text ad creation can...

Google Removing Ads From Right Side Of Desktop Search Results
Google’s desktop search results page is undergoing a change that will mean fewer ads displaying for many queries. The company is rolling...
























