Economic demands require marketers to do more with less. Today, small teams meet this demand by adopting AI to produce a greater output. Without AI, teams risk not meeting their goals due to limited resources. Likewise, advancements in PPC have changed how teams think about technology’s impact. Methods of targeting, designing creative and structuring campaigns…
Google Ads will automatically pause low-activity keywords, starting in June, according to an email sent to advertisers by the Google Ads team. What is low activity? Campaigns that were created more than 13 months ago and that have had zero impressions in the past 13 months. Why we care. Navah Hopkins explained it well on…
Design thinking is an iterative, user-centric approach to product and software development focusing on the person behind the problem. In enterprise SEO, design thinking seamlessly integrates SEO features into the core site experience. By focusing on people as the central element in addressing both problems and solutions, design thinking leads to future-proof SEO. Integrating this…
Last year something odd happened. I was working on a project for a client and needed some expert insight from a sports science expert. I put out a request on Response Source, a popular platform where journalists and PRs seek out expert comments to add to their stories and campaigns (a bit like a premium…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. There is a Google Ads reporting outage that has been going on for a while now. I posted the monthly Google Webmaster report – worth checking out,…
This is a gentle reminder that on August 1, Google will remove similar audiences (or segments) from all ad groups and campaigns. Please have a look at the full announcement here. Campaigns using similar audiences will automatically get opted into optimised targeting and audience expansion moving forward. Marketers who would rather avoid this can go…
Marketers are not happy with the Google Analytics 4 user interface (UI). In fact, social media has been inundated with complaints about the Universal Analytics replacement – but it’s concerns over the UI that have been dominating the conversation. So, is the GA4 UI really as bad as some are claiming? We spoke to three…
Microsoft has announced new AI-powered shopping tools powered by Bing and Bing Chat. These include new price match monitors, AI-generated buying guides, and review summaries, all aimed to “help you shop and save with confidence,” Microsoft said. Price match monitors. These new price match monitors show you a product’s price after you purchase that product….
While Google’s responsive search ads (RSAs) have come a long way from the simple text ads of the past, there are still plenty of opportunities to optimize and take your PPC performance to new heights. Let’s dive into seven proven strategies that can help you elevate your Google responsive search ads game. 1. Less is…
Last year Stack Overflow became one of the first websites to announce it would charge AI giants for access to content used to train chatbots. Now the popular Q&A service for coders has signed up its first customer—Google—in what CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar says is the start of a “meaningful” new stream of revenue. The…
