Bing Ads Makes Close Variants On Exact Match Permanent In U.S.

That test didn’t last long. A month ago, Bing Ads announced that it would test close variants on exact match in the U.S. As of yesterday, the switch has been flipped and close variants on exact match keywords are here to stay. Close variants include search queries that are close but not exact…

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Tackling AdWords’ New Default Close Variants Matching Behavior

Contributor Benjamin Vigneron explores the new default behavior and finds an efficient negative keyword strategy is more important than ever.

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Survey Reveals Google RLSA Performance Benchmarks & The Promise Of Cross-Channel Retargeting

Contributor Matt Ackley shares insights gleaned from a survey of 224 marketers about their retargeting practices and performance.

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What SEOs Need To Know About China’s Golden Shield Project

Interested in reaching China’s growing middle-class population? Unlike elsewhere, the search engines aren’t the main arbiters of what people see — you’ll also need to master the Great Firewall, aka the Golden Shield.

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How To Use LinkedIn As A B2B Link Prospect Development Tool

It’s no secret that LinkedIn is widely considered one of the top social media platforms for B2B marketers. As illustrated in the fourth annual B2B Content Marketing: 2014 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends report, put out by the Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs, 91% of B2B content…

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Bing Ads Is Getting A Slick New Look That Will Feel Familiar

Bing is unveiling a new look that will start showing up in the web interface next week. The new design makes trend graphs immediately visible, has simplified navigation and generally looks a lot like Google AdWords. That’s by design, of course. The Bing Ads team has been making a point of…

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