Gordon Donnelly

Knowledge is power. Here at WordStream, we pride ourselves on being one of the most in-depth sources of digital marketing knowledge in town. Want to learn how to create impactful Facebook audiences? We have a blog for that. Want to learn how to write better PPC ad copy? We have a blog for that, too.

The written word is powerful. And we wouldn’t trade it. But folks learn in all sorts of...

Keeping track of Google’s algorithm updates is a full-time job—especially considering the fact that Google doesn’t always explain why frequent fluctuations in the SERP (Search Engine Results Page) occur. Mostly, these updates occur in the name of increasing relevance in the SERP. They benefit sites that produce quality, fresh, relevant content. The song remains the same. 

If you’re a Google advertiser, you probably received an email from the search giant in your inbox yesterday afternoon. The message? Responsive display ads are replacing legacy display ads in your Google Display Network (GDN) campaigns. 

What does this change mean for display...

Happy week after vacation! Rouse yourself from that mudslide coma, pour on the aloe, and shake off the post-break malaise.

You have a contest to win.

We here at WordStream are passionate about helping advertisers do more with less. That means more output, less time. More conversions, less wasted spend. More cowbell. Just more cowbell.

To help you do more with less, we’re...

Google Marketing Live was a smash this year—and it wasn’t just because Katy Perry was in the house. In addition to doubling down on last year’s themes of trust, transparency, privacy, and machine learning, Google also used its Ads Innovation Keynote to introduce a ton of exciting new product features and...

SEO, or search engine optimization, might seem complicated, but at a fundamental level, you can think about it this way:

Everything on the internet is either a piece of content or a link (between pieces of content).

Traditionally, the pieces of content that have the most inbound links from the highest-quality site have the best ability to rank in the...

This post was co-written by Gordon Donnelly and Patrick Henry Carrera.

If you’re a reader of the WordStream blog, you may have heard of our Google Ads Benchmarks. Each year, we reach into our giant pool of client data looking for an answer to one persistent, ubiquitous question for...

There are tons of pros associated with entrepreneurship. The freedom. The ability to work for yourself. The ability to scale something with your unique stamp on it and to reap a hefty percentage of the profit.

Less talked about are the growing pains inherent in striking out on your own to create something uniquely yours. Among those pains, de-coding the complex world of Facebook ads is...

Advertising is not always the easiest endeavor. We hear it from our customers every day. And one of the biggest pain points we hear among our small business clientele is a sheer lack of healthy modeling. How are my peers and competitors structuring their accounts? In which channels are they allocating spend? Do they...

This post was co-written by Gordon Donnelly and Conor Bond.

Here at WordStream, we’re committed to helping businesses like yours launch effective and profitable campaigns across search and social. Towards that end, we took it upon ourselves to identify five online advertising campaigns (two...