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Paid Search Marketing
The Year in Google Ads: The 27 Biggest Stories of 2017
AdWords had tons of major changes in 2017! From platform redesign to new features to fundamental strategic adjustments, the world's most popular search marketing platform experienced MAJOR upheaval. Learn more about the 27 most profound changed AdWords experienced this year!
Major Changes to Google Ad Grants: What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know
Last week, Google made some major changes to how their ad grant program works. These alterations will 'add clarity and raise standards of quality for [Google’s] free advertising grants.' Here’s everything you need to know to ensure that your nonprofit can maintain its Google Ad Grant.
Google Releases Life Events Targeting to Everyone!
Life events targeting in AdWords is now available to everyone! Learn how and why to target audiences going through important life events like marriage, graduation, or moving.
Google Customer Match Expands to Include Targeting by Phone Number & Address
As great as customer match is though, not all advertisers have a large list of emails for their customers or prospects to target their ads. Even when they did, Google wasn’t able to match every email to a user on their network.
4 Super-Useful New Google Ads Features You Need to Try
Google just unleashed 4 super-useful new AdWords features to help you improve performance in every cranny of your paid search account. Here's everything you need to know about them.
The 8 Best Tools for Finding Competitor Keywords
Need to see what keywords your competitors are using? Check out these eight powerful tools you should incorporate into your competitive keyword research workflow.
Case Study: Google Search Ads vs. Facebook Ads for a Small Local Business
By testing and trialling both Facebook ads and Google search ads as part of the marketing mix, you can find what works best for you. Here's what happened for a small local business.
How to Pass the Google AdWords Certification Exam: 7 Tips from Newly Certified Professionals
Need a little help preparing for the AdWords certification exam? Learn helpful info on how to pass the AdWords exam from recently certified professionals, including study tips and more.
8 Advertising Tips for Electricians & Other Tradesmen
Digital advertising can be challenging for tradesmen and blue-collar professionals, but these eight tips will help you find more clients and get return on your online advertising spend.
What’s a Good Quality Score for Each Type of Keyword?
What's a good Quality Score in AdWords? As usual, it depends, but we can set different Quality Score benchmarks for different keyword types: brand, low-intent, high-intent and competitor keywords.
How to Compete with Big Spenders in Google Ads (Without Spending More $)
According to our data, businesses with big AdWords budgets are doing better by almost every PPC metric - ouch! But even on a smaller budget, you can win just by copying what big spenders do. Here's how.
Google Announces Major Changes to Ad Rotation Settings
Ad testing is important, and Google is simplifying the options you have when testing multiple ads within an ad group. Here's what you need to know about optimizing your AdWords settings moving forward.
These 4 Forgotten Google Ads Best Practices Still Matter – Here’s Proof
In the rush to implement Expanded Text Ads, many advertisers forgot to implement some of the industry’s oldest best practices. These forgotten PPC best practices still matter!
Positive vs. Negative Ads: Which Works Better?
Sentiment, whether positive, negative, or neutral, can have a major impact on the performance of your AdWords campaigns. Check out these tips and examples to help you test emotion in your text and display ads.
How to Get Your Piece of the Search Impression Share Pie
Learn all about search impression share in AdWords: why it's important, what it means for your account, and what to do when you're losing impression share to budget or rank.
All of Google’s Recent Changes to the Mobile SERP
Google has been mixing up the mobile SERP, introducing new features like sitelink carousels and lots of new mobile ad types to keep both users and advertisers happy. Learn more
The Feed Is Coming. Here’s How Google Could Monetize It
The feed is Google’s answer to Facebook’s News Feed. As of now, there are no public plans to use the feed as an advertising platform; here's how Google might go about monetizing it.
Best New Online Advertising Features of 2017 (So Far)
Highlighting 2017's best new online advertising features across search and social ad channels, including some potentially paradigm-shifting features to try in your digital marketing campaigns!
13 Power Tips for #Winning Mobile Ad Copy
Your customers are on mobile, and if you want MORE customers, you need to write ads that speak to the context and experience of the mobile user. Here's how!
The Highest CPC Keywords in Canada
The most expensive AdWords keywords in Canada include keywords related to immigration (super visa insurance) and small business operations (POS systems, calling software, merchant accounts). Learn more!
The Top 25 Costliest Keywords in South Africa
What keywords demand the highest bids and costs per click (CPC's) in the ZAR currency? Check out the top 25 most expensive AdWords keywords, South Africa Edition!
The 25 Most Expensive Keywords in Australia
What are the most expensive keywords in Australia? These 25 keywords will cost you more Australian dollars per click than any other keywords in AdWords advertising...
The Most Expensive Keywords in the UK
What are the most expensive keywords in the United Kingdom? These 25 keywords will cost you more British pounds per click than any other keywords in AdWords advertising...
The 25 Most Expensive Keywords in Google Ads
We’ve completed a new, comprehensive analysis of keyword data for five different currencies in English-speaking countries. We determined the top 25 most expensive keywords (meaning these niche markets are super-competitive) along with their average CPC. Check out the results!
5 Insurance Marketing Tactics that Drive Quality Leads
Insurance marketing isn't easy. Bring your sky-high CPCs back down to earth with these five easy-to-implement AdWords tactics that will work in your own or your client's account.
The 10 Most Popular Words in Google Ads (+8 Other Findings)
What makes great Google ad copy? We analyzed 512 of the best Google Ads to find out.
Case Study: How Google Ads Life Events Targeting Lifts Brand Interest 175%
Learn about AdWords' Consumer Patterns & Life Events targeting, a new weapon to target more relevant audience segments, and see what kind of results you can get.