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58 Free June Marketing Ideas for Sizzling Campaigns
Kick off the summer with these creative and inclusive ideas for social, email, blog, promos, events, and more!
Follow Links Vs. No Follow Links: Should You Care?
Those new to SEO might be wondering what all the hullabaloo is about follow links vs. no follow links. Confused? Not to worry, we’re going to clear it all up. We'll provide a bit of background about how most links work in the realm of SEO, and then dive headlong into follow vs. nofollow links.
Confessions of a Reformed Black Hat PPC Marketer: My CPC Arbitrage Story
Doing that for about 2 years will make anyone crazy, including me. Maybe I was too young, and maybe too crazy. But I had high standards for myself and I just could NOT see myself doing this any longer.
The Complete Guide to Yelp Reviews: Getting, Removing & More
For local businesses like restaurants and salons, Yelp is an absolute must! Here's your complete business guide to using Yelp.
The PPC Guide for B2B Professionals
Learn how B2B market characteristics can influence and inform your PPC campaigns in this PPC guide for business-to-business companies.
How to Reduce Your Cost Per Conversion by 16-80% (Sorry, Haters, Quality Score Still Matters)
Learn how Quality Score affects cost per conversion, and why optimizing for Quality Score and optimizing for CPA are essentially the same thing.
12 Tests to Increase Your Landing Page Conversion Rate, Starting Today
Learn the 12 easiest ways to improve your landing page conversion rate, including testing your headline, using directional cues, shortening your lead form and more.
Banner Ads Are Back from the Dead: How Google Has Given Banner Ads New Life
Banner ads are largely seen these days as fossils from the internet’s dinosaur period, back when blinking text was cool and Angelfire sites were all the rage.
Google Products Graveyard: Mourning Google Reader and Other Discontinued Google Products and Services
A list of discontinued Google Products and Services including Google Reader, iGoogle, Google Wave, Google Buzz and other Google products of the past.
Predictive Search: Is This the Future or the End of Search?
Ever since Google introduced auto-complete in 2004, predictive search has become a welcome part of our internet interactions, helping us search faster, find results quicker, and discover answers to questions we didn’t even know we had.
Google Ads Campaigns Limited by Budget? Find Out What It Means & What to Do
What should you do when your Google campaigns are limited by budget? Here are some tips for improving results without just raising your AdWords budgets.
How To Get Even More Google Sitelinks!
Google has today made it easier than ever to get new bigger and better Google Sitelinks for your ads, which help people find information deeper in your site so they can get to where they want to go faster.
Should I Delete My Low Quality Score Keywords?
Should you delete your keywords with low Quality Scores in AdWords? Not necessarily! Learn when to delete and how to go to the source of the problem.
12 Alternatives to Buying Pinterest Followers: Put Away Your Wallet, We’ve Got a Better Way
Still, in a world where the number of your followers and fans matters more than it should (says the person with less than 100 Pinterest followers), most savvy social media moguls long for as many follower notches on the Pinterest-bedpost as they can manage.
Google Ads Extensions Cheat Sheet
Google Ads ad extensions are a highly effective way to make your ads bigger and more clickable, at no additional cost to you. But there are so many extension types -- which ad extensions are right for you? Learn which ad extensions to enable with this cheat sheet.
News Flash: PPC Is Inbound Marketing
News Flash: PPC Is Inbound Marketing! Why the distinction between inbound vs outbound marketing is NOT about "Free" vs. "Paid", but rather Interruption vs. Flow.
Social Media Management Tools: What’s the Right Tool for Your Business?
Which social media management tool is best for your business? Find out with our complete review of the top social media management tools!
Buying Twitter Followers: The (Cheap) Price of Friendship
Does your competitor buy Twitter followers? Are you considering buying more Twitter followers? Learn the pros and cons, plus how to earn more Twitter followers the safe and natural way!
Web Content Writers Wanted!
Whether or not it’s fair to classify WordStream as a startup, we certainly still think of ourselves that way. And one of the challenges of startup life is the rapid growth – meaning our needs often outpace our hiring.
Persuasive Copywriting: 4 Tips for Higher Converting Websites
Learn for tips for writing subtly persuasive copy that convinces visitors to convert on your website.
AdWords Keyword Planner Explained: How to Use Keyword Planner
If you're not already using Keyword Planner regularly in your AdWords management workflow, you should be! Check out this comprehensive overview to the AdWords Keyword Planner, a powerful keyword research tool built right into the AdWords interface.
5 Big Brand PPC Ads with Critiques: What We Like, What We’d Change
Let’s look at five big-brand Google Ads (formerly known as AdWords) ads and see what they do well and what they could do better.
How to Create Landing Pages for Your Google Ads Account
Learn nine guidelines for creating high-quality PPC landing pages that will drive more conversions through your AdWords account.
7 Ways to Use Facebook for Marketing
Whether you’re a big corporation or a small local biz, Facebook is a powerful marketing tool. In this post, we look at seven ways you can use Facebook for marketing.
What PPC Account Managers Say They Do vs. What They Really Do
PPC account managers claim to be spending lots of time optimizing their accounts, but our data suggests that actual AdWords account activity levels are low. Here's why it matters.
What’s the Best Ad Position in PPC? (Hint: Not Always #1)
Getting the best ad position is key in paid search. Learn how to get the best ad position possible in this comprehensive post.
Bid Adjustments: How Do They Work? The Math Behind Combined Bid Adjustments
Learn how bid adjustments in Google AdWords Enhanced Campaigns work when using multiple adjustments for time, location and device.
