
It’s 2018. Are your Google Shopping campaigns ready?
What a year 2017 was for Google Shopping, right? The real question is, though: How did your campaigns fare? Stellar? Decent? Mediocre?...

How independent retailers can thrive in a volatile market
such as Amazon and Walmart. But these market conditions — including reduced brick-and-mortar overhead, low-cost technology integrations...

The AdWords 2x budget change: How’s it going?
When Google announced that campaign daily budgets could spend up to double their setting, some shrugged and others thought it could cause...

How much will privacy regulation disrupt the local search market in 2018?
Most marketing professionals don’t give much thought to the regulatory climate. In the US, unlike Europe, privacy laws are largely...

IAB: First half 2017 ad revenues reach $40.1 billion, on track for $87 billion for the full year
The Interactive Advertising Bureau just released its first half 2017 digital advertising revenue report. Revenues reached a record $40.1...

Take our Holiday Retail Survey & let us know how your search marketing strategy changed this ye
Did you switch up your holiday digital marketing strategies in 2017? Maybe extend your search ad campaigns? Or sell on more marketplaces?...

How to integrate display with search and video
Audience data is key to a good PPC (pay-per-click) strategy, and it can be collected from multiple channels. Someone watching or liking...

AdWords advertisers can use phone numbers & addresses for Google Customer Match targeting
Google has added more ways for businesses to target their known customers with AdWords campaigns. As of this month, advertisers can...

Knowing your audience better is your competitive advantage: A case study
Paid advertising on social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram allows you leverage your existing customer data (emails, names,...

Pinterest ad boss Tim Kendall is leaving the company
rvlsoft / Shutterstock.com Pinterest’s president and advertising boss Tim Kendall will leave the company at the end of this year, a...

15 ways to ride the audience wave
If you aren’t riding the wave of targeting options that revolve around audiences, you’re both wasting budget and missing out on what...

Do Google Posts impact ranking? A case study
A few months ago, I teamed up with Ben Fisher from Steady Demand to test whether Google Posts have any influence on ranking in the local...

The SEO ‘do more with less’ cookbook
“Do more with less.” How often in our careers have we heard that phrase? Ultimately, that statement always means there is a need to...

Amazon gets top net-promoter score among SMB vendors according to survey
There are literally hundreds of companies, publishers and agencies trying to sell digital marketing and other services to US small...

Salesforce’s Einstein boosts search in its Commerce Cloud
Bit by bit, Salesforce is bringing its Einstein AI layer to all parts of its clouds. This week, the company is launching Einstein Search...

Pinterest opens search ads to self-serve advertisers, adds ‘autotargeting’ option
Pinterest is opening up its search ads to all advertisers and broadening the aim of brands’ keyword-based campaigns to relevant queries...

Microsoft is newest member of Coalition for Better Ads
Microsoft has joined the ranks of the Coalition for Better Ads, the group of media companies, industry groups and brands that formed last...

8 major Google algorithm updates, explained
Almost every day, Google introduces changes to its ranking algorithm. Some are tiny tweaks; others seriously shake up the SERPs. This...

Maximizing the potential and value of your SEO team
The complexity of working an SEO program has grown exponentially over the years, creating both challenges and opportunities for search...
























