Naturally Generated Links? Hey, Google Might Still Hate Them!

Let’s say you have a manual penalty… not a nice way to open a post, I know, but it’s the reality for many site owners. What if Google shows you an example of one of your problematic links, and it’s one that sends you some really great converting traffic? What if, upon conducting a…

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Heal’s Furniture: A Tale Of 2 Ad Types, Text Vs. Shopping

E-commerce sites can greatly benefit by switching from regular search text ads to Google Shopping ads, as demonstrated by columnist Rebekah Schelfhout’s case study.

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What Can Businesses Do About The Knowledge Graph Dominating Search Results?

The expansion of Google’s Knowledge Graph may threaten the volume of organic search traffic to websites. Columnist Nate Dame explains what’s changing and what marketers should do about it.

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What Can Businesses Do About The Knowledge Graph Dominating Search Results?

The expansion of Google’s Knowledge Graph may threaten the volume of organic search traffic to websites. Columnist Nate Dame explains what’s changing and what marketers should do about it.

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AdWords Spring Cleaning Coming: Detritus Be Gone, But You’ll Have to Think Before You Remove

Unused ads, ad groups and campaigns will be deleted and “remove” will be a permanent move across the board.

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It’s A Trap! Avoid These 4 Pitfalls In Paid Search

Search engine marketing has improved vastly since its early days, but columnist Jared Del Prete notes that advertisers still make some of the same mistakes.

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January’s Google Analytics Blog Insights to Grow Your Business

Here’s your summary of what happened over on the Google Analytics blog, and in the analytics industry in general, in January and how you and your team can take advantage of these developments.

1. Boost Conversions by Infusing Google Remarketing with Marketo Real-Time Personalization

Who Should Care: Advertisers, large e-commerce businesses

Level of complexity: Advanced

The Gist:

  • On January 15th Marketo hosted a Google sponsored webinar
  • The webinar details the importance of real-time personalization for marketing results
  • The webinar was performed by Google’s Dan Stone, Marketo’s Mike Telem and Mike Tomita
  • Real examples of successful cases: via http://www.marketo.com/webinars/real-time-personalization/

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Your Action Items: You can watch the webinar here and download the slides here.

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New ‘Call-Only’ Ad Types Arrives In Google AdWords To Make Mobile Easier

A new ad type will give mobile-centric marketers the ability to set up phone call conversion only campaigns.

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Boost Shopping CTR with Simple Feed Optimization

Over the past two months, we have been working with clients to update their product feeds with one quick change: front-loading product titles with their brand name. For example, assuming CompanyA is our client, products like “Women’s Reversible 3-in-1 Jacket” would become “CompanyA Women’s Reversible 3-in-1 Jacket.”

In the example below, the ads have been manipulated to demonstrate the change as you can see the insertion of the brand name “Seer Interactive” into the product title in the second ad.…

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