Oh, no! AdWords can now spend double your budget. Or not…

In case you hadn’t already heard, AdWords can now spend up to double your campaign’s daily budget… which is pretty darned irritating! Fortunately, your favorite PPC superhero is here to save the day. Yep, here I am! So let’s see if we can’t script our way out of this mess. For 99 percent of campaigns, I’d normally recommend not using budget caps at all — I like to “tap it not cap it,” which basically means it’s better to control spend by bids...

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Google service ads, local search & Halloween

Barry Schwartz Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on social media at @rustybrick, +BarrySchwartz and Facebook. For more background information on Barry, see his full bio and disclosures, click over here. Source link Reference source : Google service ads, local search & Hallowee...

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‘Ask Me Anything’ with Google’s Gary Illyes at SMX East

At last week’s SMX East conference, Google’s webmaster trends analyst Gary Illyes took questions from the dual moderators — Barry Schwartz and Michelle Robbins — as well as from the audience in a session called “Ask Me Anything.” In this post, I will cover that question-and-answer dialogue, though what you’ll see below are paraphrases rather than exact quotes. I have grouped the questions and used section headers to help improve the flow and readability. Off-site...

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Customer Experience in the Age of Social Media

Join our social media and CX experts as they explain how social customer service tools can help brands provide winning digital customer experiences. They’ll discuss how to manage that experience across multiple social touch points, leverage evolving social customer service tools and platforms to deliver long-term value and act on real-time customer insights to drive social ROI. Attend this webinar and learn: social strategies that drive loyalty...

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The ever-growing local search universe

For those who missed it, Whitespark’s overhaul of the US Local Search Ecosystem interactive tool was recently released, and it does a fantastic job of showing how vast and complex the search industry has become. The ecosystem visualizes the web of search engines, data providers, publishers, directories and other businesses that use local data about businesses to power one simple action that people do every day: search online. For example, the infographic...

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Google videos vs. YouTube: Which is the best video search engine?

Video is booming as a content marketing medium. People love watching videos online, and producing great video content is quickly becoming one of the most surefire ways to command attention and grow a following. In fact, by 2019, video is expected to drive an astonishing 80% of all internet traffic. Clearly, it’s important for businesses to start working on their video content sooner rather than later. And while producing great content is essential,...

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13 outdated SEO tactics that should terrify you

As we approach Halloween and our Netflix queues again fill up with all manner of spooky, startling and downright horrifying monsters, I’m reminded of another kind of monster we should all be afraid of: outdated SEO tactics. These tactics range from harmless but ineffective (like Casper the Friendly Ghost) all the way to completely devastating (like Freddy Krueger). And much like the bad guy in so many of the horror movies we all grew up watching,...

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SearchCap: Bing Ads grows, Amazon ad revenues & PPC audits

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Microsoft search revenue grew 15% last quarter, after hovering around 10% previous 4 quarters Oct 30, 2017 by Ginny Marvin LinkedIn sessions increased again by more than 20 percent. How to ensure your external PPC account audit isn’t a waste of time Oct 30, 2017 by Pauline Jakober Everyone loves a free PPC audit,...

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9 reasons why search marketers have been at the cutting edge of marketing technology

As marketing functions increasingly rely on technology, Scott Brinker, aka “Chief MarTech,” laid out nine reason he believes search marketers are poised for leadership as marketing becomes increasingly technology-dependent in a keynote presentation at SMX East in New York City last week. Search marketers, of course, employ any number of tools and technologies in their work, and the industry has spawned hundreds of products and solutions. Brinker...

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How to ensure your external PPC account audit isn’t a waste of time

If you run a PPC agency, you’ll know it’s not that unusual for clients to occasionally bring in an outside auditor to review their PPC accounts. Sometimes, your client will let you know in advance; sometimes, you’ll find out when you see a request to access the account. And sometimes, you won’t find out until after the fact, when the final report is forwarded to you for discussion! I completely understand why some clients like to have an outside...

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Microsoft search revenue grew 15% last quarter, after hovering around 10% previous 4 quarters

In its first quarter results of fiscal year 2018, ending September 30, 2017, Microsoft reported search advertising revenue grew by 15 percent year over year, excluding traffic acquisition costs (TAC). Gross revenue from search advertising rose by $210 million, compared to $124 million the previous quarter. The majority of Microsoft’s search advertising revenue comes from its Bing search engine. The first quarter of the company’s fiscal year 2018...

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What are the SEO benefits of social media?

How does using social media benefit your efforts with SEO? Back in 2008, Search Engine Watch published the article ‘Social Media and SEO – Friends with Benefits‘, and I’d highly recommend reading it back now for a stark reminder of how far the digital world has progressed in the last nine years. Some of the key statistics and points featured in the article (although contemporary at the time) may seem somewhat archaic in 2017: Facebook having...

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