Search Engine Marketing Helps Drive Back-to-School Sales

Summer may just be starting, but advertisers that want to do well this back-to-school shopping season need to plan now to make the most of this really impressive annual consumer shopping event. In fact, at an estimated $72.5 billion in combined back-to…

Unicorn Accounts Don’t Use DKI & 9 Other PPC Lessons From SMX West

Freshly back from the excitement of SMX West in beautiful San Jose and full to the brim with insightful PPC notes (if Evernote can technically get full to the brim), I’ve set about compiling a list of my top PPC-related takeaways from the event. The following are the ten that most caught my…

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For SMBs, The Time Is Now To Embrace Search Advertising

As a recently as a few years ago, the owner of a small or local business could legitimately ask, “Why should I buy search ads?” After all, he or she first faced the hassle of setting up an ad campaign in a relatively foreign platform — then, assuming they got ads served, maybe…

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New Bing Ads Location Extension Features Roll Out To All US Advertisers

The added features Bing Ads introduced to Location Extensions in June are now available to all advertisers in the US. If you’re running mobile or local paid search campaigns, you’ll want to be sure your location extension data is comprehensive to take advantage of these features….

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New To Bing Ads Location Extensions: Directions Links To Maps, Multiple Location Listings, Reporting By Location

A couple of new features are coming to Bing Ads location extensions, which launched launched in March of last year.  The features will start rolling out over the coming weeks. Starting today, new detailed reporting is available along with added functionality for setting up location extensions. A…

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Google Testing Ads In New Google Maps, Pushes AdWords Location Extensions

If you needed another reason to get your location extensions set up in AdWords, Google has announced its testing new ads in the new Google Maps. AdWords search ads set with location extensions can appear directly below the search box and on the map itself. Ads without location extensions can appear…

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