
Review improvement strategies for franchise and multi-location companies
Reviews are an undeniable internet phenomenon. A short 20 years ago, our opinions of businesses were based on advertising, our own...

My SEO optimized & UI-friendly e-commerce Frankenstein
I spend a lot of time browsing e-commerce sites. While there are some websites that are doing e-commerce incredibly well (looking at...

Can you manage your inventory with Google Shopping?
A warehouse working carrying a stack of cardboard boxes inside a warehouse. We are often asked by our clients if we can use Google...

Are we making SEO too complicated?
As I was looking over reports the other day, I realized I was nearly drowning in statistics, benchmarks, KPIs, rankings, conversions,...

AdWords’ new extra headline: 7 ways to make the most of it
Last Tuesday was a big day for AdWords. During our annual Google Performance Summit Keynote, we introduced a wide range of exciting new...

Decision trees for SEM segmentation
One of the most common and difficult choices you’ll make when managing an SEM account is deciding when to segment keywords. Any search...

How Google’s latest design choice impacts consumers’ ability to search and discover
Google is constantly maintaining a healthy tension in its search engine results page (SERP) real estate between more ad space and less ad...

True performance baselines & ROI for SEO without attribution modeling
It’s an old trope of the Search Engine Optimization industry that SEO is the channel with the greatest return of any online marketing...

3 Google AdWords hacks to drive high-quality leads
You already know that Google AdWords can be an important tool for scaling your business, even if you’re new to PPC marketing. If that’s...

Using data science to improve your enterprise paid search marketing results
If you’ve been in the enterprise search game for as long as I have, you’ve seen many of the same vendors dominate the ecosystem for the...

7 essential Google Analytics reports every marketer must know
After all, this is the tool that tells you whether your efforts are actually translating into results. Unfortunately, mastering Google...

Share conversions and remarketing lists across paid search accounts
At some point or another, anyone handling paid search at an agency has likely managed a client that had multiple accounts. Before...

Brand queries: the AdWords performance illusion
But many AdWords practitioners still look at each search session as the entire relationship with a user when looking at performance...

The future of voice-related SEO for local business
Alexander Supertramp / Shutterstock.com On May 18, Google brought hundreds of developers together for Google I/O, its annual developer...

The 5 strangest search terms in 2,000+ AdWords accounts
Over the past two years, my team and I have audited more than 2,000 AdWords accounts. While auditing all of those accounts, we...

Well played, Google: Advertisers (finally) get more device bidding controls
And just like that, before it was time for my original submission to publish, it happened. Google announced Tuesday that advertisers will...

Refine your content marketing tactics to benefit from enhanced search engine display
Content marketing has become commonplace for marketers today. For those who need guidance, there are numerous handbooks and step-by-step...

Journey to better paid search ROI with this travel ad copy data
As spring has truly sprung and summer is just around the corner here in the US, many travel brands will be upping their game to capture...

5 essential skills that great link builders know
how link builders need to do more than just build links. It’s not a novel concept at all, at least not among people who understand that...