AdWords’ New Demographics Charts Offer Visual Insights On Age, Gender & Parental Status
The Demographics tab under the Display Network section in AdWords now displays charts on gender, age and parental status for campaigns running on the display network, including retargeting campaigns. The Demographics tab began rolling out last month. T…
Buried Gems: 6 Important AdWords Reports You’ve Never Heard Of
Every paid search marketer has their “pet” reports. Some are obsessed with quality score, others with queries, and some chase sheer numbers of active keywords. Over the years, I’ve developed a set of “go to” reports where I always find meaningful insights and account…
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AdWords Glitches? Google Says Shopping Campaigns Access Issues Have Been Fixed
Paid search management is demanding enough without platform connectivity issues. Over the past weeks, several AdWords users have taken to Twitter to complain about ongoing issues with what’s come to be known as the “red bar of death”. The red banner looks like this: Last week,…
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For The Trifecta, Bing Ads Rolling Out Close Variants On Phrase Match
Bing Ads has already announced the switch to include close variants on Exact Match and Broad Match Modifier keywords. Now Phrase Match keywords will also get the close variants treatment. With close variants, ads trigger on search queries that closely resemble the keyword — plurals,…
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More Bulk Editing Capabilities In Bing Ads Web UI Are Now Live
Bing Ads has been rolling out bulk editing capabilities within the web interface over the past few months. Today, more options became available. Bulk bid and destination editing are both relatively new additions, and now advertisers can edit keyword ma…
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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Anticipating What Products Will Drive Your Holiday Paid Search Sales
With products changing from year to year, how can you predict which items will be hot sellers this holiday season? Contributor Mark Ballard offers some advice.
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EBay Dumps Google Syndicated Ads For Bing Ads On Mobile Devices
Quietly, eBay has dumped Google AdWords sponsored text ads from mobile devices in favor of Bing Ads. The move was noticed by RKG, the agency’s Director of Research, Mark Ballard, wrote about the change today. EBay serves syndicated text ads at the bottom of category search pages as a way to…
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Bing Ads Adds Competitive “Auction Insights” To Web UI
Bing Ads advertisers will now find competitive auction data in the web interface. First launched earlier this year in Bing Ads Intelligence, Auction Insights is available from the Campaigns page on the web. Auction insights are available at the campaig…
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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App Extensions Coming To Bing Ads
App extensions will be available to advertisers on Bing Ads starting next spring. Timed to coincide with the removal of explicit mobile OS targeting, app extensions will be targeted automatically to a user’s OS and device. The extensions will feature an app’s icon and a call-to-action…
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Bing Ads To Retire Explicit Mobile OS Targeting In March 2015
To complete its path to compatibility with Google AdWords, Bing Ad has announced that explicit OS targeting will be retired in March of next year. No longer will you have the option to target ads to a specific mobile operating systems as you are now. I…
What’s Ahead For Paid Search?
As SERPs become more intuitive and in-app ads increase, the nature of paid search is changing. Columnist Mona Elesseily discusses how such shifts can shape the future of paid search.
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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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2 Creative Ways To Promote Vital But Infrequently-Searched-For Events With PPC
No search volume? No problem! Columnist Pauline Jakober provides helpful tips for campaigns focused on low search volume, high conversion terms.
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New Google AdWords “Automated Extensions” Report Rolling Out
First, what are “automated extensions”? This is the new term for what were once known as “annotations” — Consumer Ratings and Seller Ratings which automatically populate in AdWords ads. Google said it is retiring the use of “annotations” and replacing it…
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Google Enables Multiple AdWords Account Logins
Hear that? That is the communal sigh of relief echoing throughout the paid search world. The days of having several browsers open in order to manage multiple AdWords accounts simultaneously are finally over. Google announced a new workflow that allows …
Recharge Your Remarketing With 5 Tips For Q4
Columnist Eric Couch discusses his love of remarketing, complete with tips to improve your own performance this holiday season.
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