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Responsive Search Ads take center stage – are you prepared?

Embrace the power of automation to produce highly-customized ad copy to reach customers with the most potential to convert. Responsive Search Ads – RSA for short – are not the new kids on the block. RSAs have been a part of the PPC ecosystem for a few years. That being said, RSAs...
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Shielding your business in a pandemic

SEO is one of the best channels to invest in right now to attract new customers and reinforce the loyalty of your existing client base. None of us were prepared for the realities of the COVID-19 virus. Who could have predicted the omnipresence of vocabularies like social...
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Your customers aren’t interested in your COVID messaging anymore, what now?

COVID burnout is real, but the pandemic is not over. Even though the coronavirus is far from fully under control, there’s evidence of COVID fatigue everywhere you look. It casually appeared in late April and then in the crowded Wisconsin bar scenes and packed Alabama and Florida...
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Merkle: Google Q4 search growth aided by changes other than ETAs

Overall paid search growth remained steady in Q4. Separate device bidding was among the drivers of growth for Google. Paid search spend growth held steady in Q4 with 14 percent growth year over year, according to Merkle’s latest Digital Marketing Report. That’s up from 13 percent...
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Is Google filtering your business in the local search results?

Seeing a shift in Google’s local results? It’s not just you. Columnist Joy Hawkins documents what appears to be a recent refresh to Google’s local ranking filter. It seems very apparent that Google has a filter for local that weeds through all the listings that...
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Three well-meaning paid search optimizations that might kill performance

That recent adjustment to your paid search campaign seemed like a good idea at the time, but now you’re seeing a drop in performance. How could this happen? Columnist Andy Taylor notes some common issues that arise from well-intended optimization choices. I only recently...
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SEO testing for continuous improvement; Friday’s daily brief

Plus why you should pause your ads (for science) Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here to get it delivered...
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The benefits of using call analytics

With call analytics, inbound calls can be tracked to their marketing source at the keyword and campaign levels, and followed through the conversion funnel to identify the most profitable campaigns. Call analytics play a vital role in establishing the relationship between online...
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How technology is changing what it means to be an effective (search) marketer

Tools and tech to help improve analysis, decision making, and strategic planning. The demands and expectations of marketers continue to evolve, and increasingly, they “will be a hybrid of marketers, technologists and data analysts,” says Stephen McDonagh, director of digital...
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3 behavioral stats for retailers to supercharge your holiday strategy

Columnist Andrew Waber takes a look at consumers’ retail search activity to give you insight into the keywords and product content that will give your brand a leg up during the holiday season. What’s different about the holidays this year? If you’re a marketer, you need to...