Navah Hopkins

One of the hardest tasks in digital marketing is setting the budget for your campaign. Too high, and it leaves room for unspent budget and an elevated cost per acquisition (CPA). Too low, and your budget won’t allow for enough clicks in the day to generate enough leads for your campaign to be profitable.

Budget Cat wants all the budget, but should he get it...

Ad extensions are the perfect sidekick to ad copy: they can direct the user to a better landing page, they give context on pricing or offerings before the user clicks and costs you money, and they can facilitate conversation without ever making the user land on your landing page. Google knows the value that extensions bring to advertisers and will sometimes...

Just in case you (STILL) need convincing that having a mobile strategy isn’t optional, here are a few stats on mobile adoption to consider:

• Men and women aged 18-29 have a 92% adoption rate
• Men and women over 65 have a 42% adoption rate
• All income levels have at least 60% adoption – that rises to 93% when you look at consumers making over $75K a year

I’m a bargain addict. I shop at Goodwill instead of traditional department stores, live by Groupon and GoldStar rather than paying full price on a meal or a show, and hunt for treasures at flea markets, as opposed to paying a premium at malls.

Who wants to blow a month of rent on a bag?

You can imagine the unbridled joy I found in close variants...

If you’re one of the thousands of sites using Google Site Search (GSS), you may have heard that Google is retiring the product later this year, and you’re likely wondering what’s happening to your in-site search tool.

Short answer: it’s being replaced...

Big publicity events can do wonders for growing the lead funnel and enhancing your PPC efforts, but they can also cause major glitches in an otherwise immaculate account. While no brand should ever shy away from the limelight, not anticipating how this PR exposure will impact all facets of your business is not only dangerous, it’s an avoidable risk.

Here’s how to rock the limelight and...

Google shocked the world earlier this month when it announced that the company would be folded into an umbrella company called Alphabet.

Of course, Google will still be Google, and AdWords isn’t going anywhere, but the company’s new corporate structure lets them separate the various aspects of the business, such as its advertising products from its dystopian driverless car projects and...

Some paid search pundits have predicted the impending death of keywords in PPC, including our own Larry Kim – and the day may come when we don’t have to bid on specific keywords, but for now, keyword selection is still a huge part of a solid PPC marketing strategy. And that means you need to be familiar with keyword analysis – a...

Getting an “Ad Disapproved” notice from Google can be a traumatic ordeal, especially if it doesn’t provide a clear explanation of the policy violation. Over the past quarter, we’ve seen an increase in ad disapprovals, many of them having nothing to do with the advertiser. Here are the most common three reasons for ad disapprovals that aren’t your fault.

Medical/Pharmaceutical: My...

We live in an increasingly shrinking world, and it’s become easier than ever to be an international vendor. Depending on what threshold value you use to calculate “ecommerce” there’s between 110,000 and 24 million ecommerce sites in the world, but only a fraction of them truly serve an international audience.

What does it mean to serve, as opposed to take orders?...