Google Webmaster Tools: Search Traffic

Following Thijs’ article on Search Appearance in Google Webmaster Tools, I wanted to talk to you today about the second section: Search Traffic. Although the common thread is search traffic, the subsection deal with a lot of different topics like search queries and links. In this article, we will explain all that can be found in these…

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Google Webmaster Tools: Search Appearance

There are a lot of ways to check how your website’s doing these days. The most common one people use is probably Google Analytics. Google Analytics is definitely a great tool for monitoring your site. However, since the ‘not provided’ development, it’s become pretty hard to monitor your SEO efforts. And unfortunately, most tools that…

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Site Speed & PPC Performance: Why You Can’t Ignore A Slow Site Anymore

SEO professionals have talked a lot about site speed since Google made it a ranking factor, but columnist Pauline Jakober says paid search marketers need to pay attention, too.

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PLAs Drove 56 Percent Of Non-Brand Google AdWords Clicks In Q4 [RKG]

Click share also rose on Bing’s product ads, doubling from Q3.

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December’s Google Analytics Blog Insights to Grow Your Business

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

1. With Google Analytics Premium and DoubleClick: Matalan increases conversion rate by 28%

Who Should Care: eCommerce businesses, web marketing practitioners

The Gist:

  • A leading UK retailer, Matalan, linked Google Analytics Premium and DoubleClick Campaign manager to understand digital marketing channels better.

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This Small Business Redesigned Its Website & You Won’t Believe What Horrible SEO Thing Happened Next

Columnist Andrew Shotland took on a client who’d lost rankings as a result of a site redesign. Here’s what he did to help them recover.

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Here’s An AdWords Script That Lets You Optimize Bids Every Hour Of The Day

Columnist Daniel Gilbert shares Brainlabs’ AdWords script that lets you set 24 different hourly bid multipliers, 7 days a week.

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Google France Homepage Goes “Je Suis Charlie” In Memory Of Charlie Hebdo Victims

Google France homepage now displaying “Je Suis Charlie” badge to honor victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

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Connecting Paid Search Spend to In Store Visits

As PPC experts we understand the value that our work brings to our clients. Even if it doesn’t directly or initially correlate with a lead or conversion, we know that its valuable. When Google first introduced Estimated Total Conversions back in October of ‘13, I know a ton of PPC marketers were super excited like: […]

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5 Incredibly Practical Reasons To Do PPC In 2015

The competition for visibility in the search results is fierce, which is all the more reason that big brands should stake their claim as a presence to be reckoned with online. Alongside search engine optimization, pay-per-click (PPC) can garner more real estate for your brand on the results…

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Why You Need To Make Dynamic Copy An Integral Part Of Your 2015 PPC Strategy

As we head into 2015, advertisers and searchers are both suffering ad fatigue. Part of this fatigue has to do with the current state of paid search, including which features are considered necessary. The other part has to do with advertisers not adapti…