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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Performance Marketing Benchmark Report Holiday 2014: Mobile Has Arrived

Contributor Matt Ackley summarizes key findings from Marin’s recently released report.

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Bing-Yahoo Paid Search Share Rises For Two Consecutive Quarters [IgnitionOne]

With robust consumer holiday shopping, US paid search closed out 2014 with 11 percent growth year-over-year in Q4 ad spend, bouncing back from sluggish growth of just 2.1 percent in Q3 2014. The data, which comes from IgnitionOne’s quarterly report, shows that the growth surge was driven by…

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Smartphones Account For 40 Percent Of US Search Ad Spend In Q4 [Marin]

Desktop’s influence, while still dominant, continued to wane in the fourth quarter.

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Smartphones Account For 40 Percent Of US Search Ad Spend In Q4 [Marin]

Desktop’s influence, while still dominant, continued to wane in the fourth quarter.

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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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Think Small: Solve Your Mobile SEM Problem With “Micro Leads”

The time has come for brands to have a mobile paid search strategy in place. Columnist Susan Waldes suggests that businesses begin with tiny steps.

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What Yahoo’s Firefox Deal Tells Us About Paid Search In 2015

Has Firefox’s switch to Yahoo as the default search engine impacted PPC campaigns? Contributor Mark Ballard from RKG examines the data.

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