4 Search Advertising Trends To Watch

Columnist John Cosley of Bing unearths clues about the future of paid search as we head into 2016. What are you doing to prepare for or take advantage of these opportunities?

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Get Your Priorities Straight: Structuring Google Shopping Campaigns

A good campaign structure can have a significant impact on performance, but what structure is right for your business? Columnist Laura Collins discusses some options that have worked well for her clients.

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Taming The Beast Of The Messy Enterprise SEM Campaign

Enterprise SEM can be a sprawling operation, but columnist Ted Ives suggests an organizational framework to keep it in hand.

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Understanding How Your Brand Drives Google Shopping Campaign Traffic

Separating brand from non-brand traffic is not as straightforward in Google Shopping as it is for standard AdWords text ads, but columnist Mark Ballard has a solution.

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Heal’s Furniture: A Tale Of 2 Ad Types, Text Vs. Shopping

E-commerce sites can greatly benefit by switching from regular search text ads to Google Shopping ads, as demonstrated by columnist Rebekah Schelfhout’s case study.

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Holiday 2014 Learnings: How Delivery Options Impact PPC & Conversions

Ever wonder how final delivery dates and special options effect online conversions before Christmas? Contributor Rebekah Schelfout shares her insights.

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Google Partners Adds Certification For Shopping Campaigns

New exam allows AdWords practitioners to become certified in managing Google Shopping campaigns.

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Insights Into PPC Traffic From “Sofa Sunday” In The UK

You’ve heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but what about Sofa Sunday? Columnist Rebekah Schelfhout discusses this new mobile shopping trend.

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Shopzilla’s Rebrand As Connexity Opens Search Marketing Technology To Retailers

Shopzilla, best known for its comparison shopping engine, changed its namein September to Connexity Inc. to reflect a change in focus. The company still operates it’s consumer-facing sites, but now makes its B2C assets and shopping data available to marketers as managed services. As part of…

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Ahead Of Black Friday, Google Adds Shopping Details For Mobile Users

Google says that shopping searches from smartphones have increased 3.5 times compared to last year and that Google Shopping is already sending more mobile traffic to retailer sites than it did during the first week of December last year. To capitalize …

Optmyzr Launches Google Shopping Campaigns Setup Tool

There are many benefits of the new Shopping Campaigns structure that Google ushered in on September 1st, however, the setup process can be cumbersome and iterative, particularly if you have the same type of campaign structure across multiple campaigns….

Latest Google Product Listing Ads Test: Segment By Brand

Google has been running several experiments on the way it displays product listing ads (PLAs) in the search results. We’ve seen ads grouped in pricing buckets, PLAs showing in knowledge panels, and now, PLAs segmented by brand. While researching Chromebooks, Samuel Edwards at Tenthwave…

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Search Engine Marketing Helps Drive Back-to-School Sales

Summer may just be starting, but advertisers that want to do well this back-to-school shopping season need to plan now to make the most of this really impressive annual consumer shopping event. In fact, at an estimated $72.5 billion in combined back-to…

Deliver Transformational SEO Performance With Simple Techniques

I find huge value in big site analysis, as the subtleties of prioritisation can have multi-million dollar impact for a business. This analysis can be informative about approaching a new SEO strategy for any site, and reveal a few truths about the true …

Google Shopping Campaigns Are Now Live — How To Get Started

Yesterday morning, Google announced the Google Shopping campaign program is now available to all online merchants. Google Shopping campaigns, which have been in beta since October, are a new version of PLAs which change how ads are created. They make creating PLAs more transparent within AdWords…

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Staying Competitive In PPC: Learning From Black Friday’s Most Popular Offers

The five-day Black Friday weekend from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday provided an insightful glimpse into how retailers are running their PPC strategies for the holidays. Particularly interesting are the variety of offer types run by retailers, ranging f…

Google Launches Shopping Campaigns To Ease PLA Management

While Google’s switch to paid Product Listing Ads for Google Shopping has proven wildly successful, growth has likely been hindered by the fact that setting up and managing Product Listing Ad campaigns for Google Shopping has been plagued with complexity. Today, Google announced a new…

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Google Launches Expanded AdWords PLAs On Mobile Devices

Google rolled out product listing ads (PLAs) on mobile devices in March. Now the company has launched an updated display for PLAs on smartphones that allows more products to be displayed from the search results page. Users can swipe to see more PLAs fr…

Debate: Do Single Product PLA Ad Groups Strangle ROI?

Building out Product Listing Ad campaigns in Google AdWords with single product or single SKU ad groups has become a fairly common practice. The idea being that isolating each product into its own ad group gives advertisers more control over which item…

Local Google Shopping PLAs And Local Storefronts Roll Out To Limited Set Of Retailers

Today, Google is making public what several speakers at SMX East alluded to last week: local availability for Product Listing Ads. The latest iteration of Google’s wildly successful Product Listing Ads, which will be referred to simply “Local PLAs” in this article, are currently…

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