Bing Ads Makes Combined Tablet-Desktop Targeting Official

Desktop and tablets are now united across paid search — with one caveat. Bing Ads has officially combined tablet and PC targeting in search campaigns on the platform, following on Google’s move to do so last year with the introduction of Enhanced Campaigns. Bing Ads announced the…

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Bing Ads Debuts Enhanced Sitelinks In US

Enhanced Sitelinks are now available on Bing Ads in the U.S., and  will be rolling out to more global markets through the end of the year. Enhanced Sitelinks offer two additional lines of copy below the link itself. Bing Ads reports that on average, advertisers testing Enhanced Sitelinks saw…

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Google Introduces Automatic Item Updates For PLAs

Up to now, Google has systematically disapproved product listing ads when retailers had price or inventory variances between their product feed and the microdata on their sites. Now, to help retailers maintain consistent visibility in PLAs, Google has launched “automatic item updates”…

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An AdWords Script To Make Exact Match, Well…Exact

Many of you will have heard about Google’s decision to terminate exact match (at the same time as telling us that it’s for our own good). It’s a clear move to grab some more advertising dollars, and the news has been met with fury by SEM experts. Most two-year-old kids know that there is a…

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Marin Software, Kenshoo Named As Facebook’s Atlas Paid Search Partners

This morning, Facebook announced the expected relaunch of Atlas, the ad serving and measurement challenger to Google’s DoubleClick. Both Marin Software and Kenshoo have been named as Atlas’ paid search partners. Facebook describes the partnerships working this way: Using a Search Engine…

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Dangerous Weapon Ads On Google: A Look At New Policy Center Enforcement A Week In

Throwing axes, military knives, paintball guns, gun scopes. These items have are among the banned products listed in Google AdWord’s Policy Center, a list that in the past has had spotty enforcement at best. Last month, I looked at examples of supposedly banned dangerous products showing up…

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Bing Ads Makes Close Variants On Exact Match Permanent In U.S.

That test didn’t last long. A month ago, Bing Ads announced that it would test close variants on exact match in the U.S. As of yesterday, the switch has been flipped and close variants on exact match keywords are here to stay. Close variants include search queries that are close but not exact…

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Samsung Vs. Apple In PLAs: Advertisers Spent 3X More On IPhone Ads Than Galaxy In Q2

Mobile device advertisers spent $26.4 million on Google product listing ads in Q2, according to new data from AdGooroo, which looked at 339 mobile device-related keywords. Apple iPhone-related keywords accounted for 45 percent of total spend on PLAs an…

Using AdWords Auction Insights To Find Out Who’s Winning On Mobile

The Auction Insights report gives you visibility into the auctions you compete in. Contributor Matt Lawson explains out how to use it to your best advantage.

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Bing Ads Rolling Out Dynamic Sitelinks In U.S.

Bing Ads has debuted dynamic sitelinks, a new annotation that are automatically created and displayed in the same fashion as standard Sitelinks that advertisers control. If this sounds familiar, it’s because Google introduced the same feature in July. The engines know that sitelinks increase…

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Google+ Loses More Real Estate In Search, Brand Boxes Dropped For Logged Out Users

Continuing the trend of downplaying Google+ in search results, Google has dropped the display of Google+ elements in brands’ knowledge box results for searchers who aren’t logged into their Google accounts. Previously, the Google+ presences of brands prominent enough to rate knowledge…

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Multi Channel Digital Marketing: Trends to Watch – October 2nd Webcast

Digital Marketing Depot presents “Multi Channel Digital Marketing – Trends to Watch” on Thursday October 2 at 1 PM EDT. This webcast covers how the latest digital marketing technology yields data that helps businesses gain deeper insight into the performance of their marketing…

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Google To Start Bumping Ad Copy For Extensions In Mobile Search Ads

When Google added ad extensions and formats to the Ad Rank formula last fall, the company essentially put a neon sign flashing “Ad Extensions Increase Click Through Rates” in that store window you walk by every day. Now, in another sign of the rise of ad extensions, Google has announced…

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