More Detailed Reporting Rolling Out For AdWords Flexible Bid Strategies

This week, Google is rolling out new reporting updates for AdWords flexible bid strategies such as Target CPA and Enhanced CPC. Bid strategy reporting can be found in the Shared Library. Reporting at the strategy level provides a dashboard view of key performance metrics such as  conversions,…

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In A Big Shift, Google’s Latest Ad Test Drives Users To Google Shopping, Not Advertisers’ Sites

Google is experimenting with a new format for Google Shopping ads, this time on brand searches. The example shown above showcases products from jeweler David Yurman by category — rings, bracelets, necklaces and earrings — on a search for the brand. This screen shot was sent to Search…

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AdWords Now Shows Up To 3 Business Locations In Google Mobile Search Ads

Google has made an update to AdWords location extensions that allows multiple locations to display in mobile search ads. When several business locations are nearby, users may see up to three locations in an ad. The extensions can display the street address and distance from the user’s current…

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Traffic Insights From Google Shopping Search Partners

Google recently started distributing Google Shopping campaigns to selected partners. Columnist Rebekah Schelfhout explores what impact, if any, this has had on advertisers.

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Search Arbitrage Accounts For Largest Percentage Of Ads Competing On Brand Trademarks

Brands are often struggling with other advertisers encroaching on their trademark terms in search ads. Sometimes brand trademarks are used by “friendly” advertisers such as resellers, but a study released today from BrandVerity shows that search arbitrage accounts for the majority of…

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October’s Google Analytics Blog Insights to Grow Your Business

Here’s your summary of what happened over on the Google Analytics blog and analytics in general in October, and how you, and your team, can take advantage of these developments.       AdWords dynamic remarketing now available to advertisers across all verticals. The Gist: In June of 2013,AdWords rolled out dynamic remarketing to all clients that had […]

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Matt Cutts: Being Google’s “Lightning Rod” For Unhappy SEOs Might Not Be Productive

Last week, the head of Google’s web spam team Matt Cutts announced that he was extending his leave. Now, Cutts has opened up a bit more about it, further suggesting he won’t return. Cutts also suggested that having himself or anyone be a public face for Google in terms of publisher…

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Slow Google+ Upgrades + Pigeon = Bad Big Local Brand Rankings

Last week I posted some theories on why Google’s Pigeon update may have hurt the local rankings for some big local brands. While we have seen a lot of positive rankings improvements for our local clients, we have also heard of some large multi-location brands that got hit with 5-10% traffic losses. My take was […]

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New AdWords Shopping Campaigns Report For Google Analytics Rolling Out

Today, Google announced that a new Shopping Campaigns report will start appearing in the AdWords section of Google Analytics. The report is rolling out globally over the next few weeks. The news comes along with the full release of Enhanced Ecommerce f…

Now Make Changes To AdWords Settings And Ad Extensions Across Multiple Campaigns

Following up on last month’s ad customizers news, which brought dynamic insertion to a whole new level, Google has launched bulk editing for campaign settings and ad extensions. Bulk editing eliminates the tedium of making adjustments to settings and extensions within the AdWords user…

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Paid Search Roundup Q3 2014: From Performance Trends To Key Product Updates, What You Need To Know

The quarterly reports and earning statements are in. Overall, all signs point to continued global growth for paid search advertising in Q3. Here’s a look at performance results and the biggest announcements and changes to come from Google AdWords and Bing Ads in the third quarter 2014. What…

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