The WordStream Blog

How do your customers find you?

For modern-day businesses, the answer is simple: they go online. In particular, they go on search engines like Google.

While paid search ads are a great way to gain immediate exposure on this go-to search engine, you should also be working to build up your organic rankings as well. With a strong presence in both paid and organic search...

If you’re a local business owner or operator, you most likely have a million things to worry about and learning how to run effective Facebook ads may not be too high on that list. Why? Because folks who attempt to run ads in Facebook’s Business Manager are often overwhelmed by the number of options and the surprising complexity of the platform. However, there is a Facebook ad campaign type...

On September 1, Google announced that the search terms report within Google Ads will now be showing only search terms that reach a volume threshold. This reduced visibility into ad campaigns has caused immediate concern among advertisers and agencies, who rely on the report’s insights to optimize their Google Ads performance.

There are a lot of questions about what this...

Any time you can get more insights about your target audience on an ad platform, it’s a good thing. There’s never such a thing as too much info. And from what I can tell, one of the best insights tools out there is widely underutilized. LinkedIn Website Demographics. This feature within the LinkedIn Campaign Manager allows you to view your ad traffic segmented by profile targeting...

I have a confession. I *very* strongly dislike the phrase, “she wears a lot of hats.” It’s overused, like “these are unprecedented times” or “move fast and break things.” But if you’ve been the sole marketing person (or the sole everything person) at a company, the phrase probably fits.

And if the phrases (and hats) fit, then your to-do list is a foot long: come up...

Digital shoppers in the United States are clicking and tapping their way to more than $374 billion in online sales in 2020, with no signs of turning back. By 2024, ecommerce sales of physical goods are expected to top $476 billion.

While this growth is great news for ecommerce...

Gone are the days when marketers were obsessed over a single keyword in an effort to get good rankings. Today, the key to crafting amazing content is context. And for good reason: over 15% of Google’s daily searches are new terms that users have never searched before...

One of the best purchases I ever made was signing up for Spotify Premium in college. I even remember when it happened, in March 2014. I had just signed a job offer for after graduation and Spotify released premium pricing for students. It was beautifully serendipitous and we’ve been in a committed, monthly-fee relationship everx since. In fact, now I pay for a family plan and have gotten all...

With the onset of the pandemic, small businesses have been severely impacted across the globe. Shelter-in-place policies have put many at risk of permanently closing their doors, if they haven’t already done so. In Facebook’s most recent Global State of Small Business Report, about 25% of the...

Let’s get straight to the facts. As both marketing and COVID-19 trends collide, PPC is becoming more important than ever in most companies' marketing strategies, while at the same time most marketing budgets are being reduced to lower than ever—at least for now. What this means is, it’s time to rethink how you manage your Google Ads during this “new normal” period.