Google is rolling out a new notification in select Google Ads accounts, offering personalized support for implementing enhanced conversions. Why we care. Despite Google’s decision to stall removing cookies from Chrome, advertisers still need new ways to measure and optimize their campaigns. Enhanced conversions provide a privacy-focused solution to maintain accurate conversion tracking. Details. The…
Happy Father’s Day – it looks like we are seeing some pretty significant ranking fluctuations and volatility within the Google Search results over the past day or so. Yep, yet another big Google weekend update of sorts – of course – not confirmed by Google. I am seeing a huge spike in chatter from SEOs…
X (Twitter) has paywalled XPro (TweetDeck) for both brand and personal accounts. Users now need to be Blue subscribers to access the tool, which has been rebranded as XPro under Elon Musk’s reign. Why we care. Some people will feel disgruntled about paying for a tool that has historically been free, so may leave the…
At the Microsoft AI event on last Thursday, I had a sit down with Kya Sainsbury-Carter, the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Advertising, who told me that clicks on ads within Bing Chat are higher than clicks on ads in traditional search. 1.8X higher to be exact and with shopping ads, specifically in Bing Chat,…
30-second summary: According to various studies, videos help engage your page visitors as well as get them to remember your value proposition better and help them make purchase decisions When creating marketing videos to add to your landing page, keep them shorter than 2 minutes and position them prominently on the page Make sure to…
If you manage ecommerce PPC accounts in Google Ads, you likely have used Performance Max campaigns since mid-2022. You also know that the insights and reporting are limited. We can’t control how much of our budget goes to top-of-funnel strategies like video, display and discovery campaigns. We can’t see how that spend is broken out…
Meta is updating the capabilities of Reels to help improve the performance of ad creatives. The tech giant has announced a string of new features designed to boost engagement and optimize campaign performance, including: Collection ads Multi-destination Reels carousel ads Swipe left functionality Why we care. Meta’s new functionalities for Facebook and Instagram Reels ads…
Want to rank highly in 2024 and beyond? Then, you must create what Google calls “helpful, reliable, people-first content.” In this article, I will outline a process that shows you exactly how to do that and provide a simple template you can fill out to take your content to the next level. Spambusters At the…
From your account reps to the interface itself, Google gives you plenty of recommendations on managing your ad campaigns. But are all of those good? Should you ignore these recommendations and “hack” Google’s machine learning – or should you follow Google’s advice? Two Google Ads experts – Ben Kruger and Anthony Higman – had an…
Google is trying out another design for surveying or polling some of its searchers if they find the search results helpful or not. This one shows directly under a snippet and says “was this result helpful?” It then has a green thumbs-up icon and a red thumbs-down icon to click on. Google has been asking…
