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Four ways to remain productive when the AdWords interface changes
The new AdWords interface is creating quite a stir in the PPC industry because, while it’s pretty, it’s disrupting the work of lots of PPC...
Delivering optimized media-rich content for mobile
We all know the adage, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” meaning that a complex idea can be conveyed in just one image. The phrase was...
5 conversion boosters to optimize your PPC campaigns
Earlier this year, Facebook broke some bad news. Organic reach is officially being choked, making it harder for brands to reach the audiences...
Quora adds more contextual & behavioral ad-targeting options
The platform is steadily enhancing its advertising...
4 ways to get more out of Bing Ads
Sometimes Bing Ads is the forgotten stepchild of PPC. The reasons probably trace back to when Bing Ads was very hard to manage and provided very...
3 ways humans can do PPC better than machines alone
Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic in PPC, but until the machines fully take over day-to-day account management, there are a few key areas...
How to use brand mentions for SEO, or the linkless future of link building
Google has used links to determine the authority of websites since its early days: the idea of webpages casting “votes” for other pages by...
Publishers turn to ads, search following Facebook’s News Feed change
Media companies are turning to paid distribution and other platforms to insure them against Facebook’s latest algorithm...
It’s 2018. Are your Google Shopping campaigns ready?
What a year 2017 was for Google Shopping, right? The real question is, though: How did your campaigns fare? Stellar? Decent? Mediocre?...
8 game-changing SEO trends that will dominate 2018
With over 200 factors in Google’s algorithm, SEO is a complex science. But it’s not how much you need to know that makes it really...
How emerging technologies will affect your business in 2018
Contributor Tom Kuhr takes a look at how voice search, artificial intelligence and augmented reality are changing the marketing...
A bigger Bing for your buck
Bing Ads doesn’t get the credit it deserves. While it’s true that Bing was slower to the paid ad game than Google and Yahoo, Bing Ads...
Apocalypse for online search? Here’s how marketers can thrive
When Google launched in 1998, the big knock against it was that it would be excruciatingly difficult to monetize the traffic because all...
How to use AI for link building and improve your search rankings
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to grow in popularity among consumers, marketers working in search engine optimization must consider...
8 major Google ranking signals in 2017
It’s no secret that Google’s ranking algorithm is made up of over 200 components, or “signals.” And while the list is...
Meet NinjaCat ‘Shinobi,’ the all-in-one agency reporting and monitoring platform of the future
Reports are so 2000 and lame! Everything in our world — from software to phones, cars and TVs — is getting smarter, faster and...
Branch offers first deep-linking from ads on AMP pages to app content
The deep-linking provider is out with ads for AMP that can link directly to specific content in...
An introduction to conversational commerce and bots
Bots are sweeping the digital landscape, giving consumers even more ways to interact with their favorite brands. Columnist Christie Olson...
How Pinterest is teaching its computers to see
Pinterest has been developing computer vision technology since 2014 and is now applying it to visual search queries and ad...
LiveRamp adds people-based search targeting to IdentityLink
Its new capability allows brands to add missing email addresses to their CRMs for search targeting with Google...