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There was a time when ranking No. 1 for a keyword was a victory wholly worth pursuing — a time when you could build a list of keywords, craft 300-word blog posts, and your site would drive new business. That is no longer the case. In 2017, we have a …

When you think about remarketing, I’m sure the top three platforms that immediately come to mind are Google, AdRoll and Criteo. But how often is the Bing Network associated with a successful remarketing program? I recently attended a Bing webcast on “The Art and Science of Remarketing Optimization” (PDF) and …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Now you can schedule offline conversion imports in AdWordsMay 18, 2017 by Ginny Marvin Imports from files can be scheduled daily or weekly. 7 unannounced updates …

Digital delivery and content is the new currency of advertising. Brands must find a way to connect while measuring returns on more than recall or click through rate (CTR). Only programmatic platforms can deliver that value. Get the basics of using programmatic advertising in this guide from Oracle: learn what …

Ad copy is a very important element in online advertising, but it’s often “set and forget” — once written, advertisers move on to newer and/or sexier strategies and tactics. Ad copy is often one of the first areas I focus on to boost advertising efficiency. And, if I focus on iterating ads, I …

Brands still invest a significant amount of advertising in TV. According to eMarketer, TV spending will be over $72 billion in 2017. While TV is great at reaching a large audience, it is most effective when combined with an effective search and social strategy to be able to fully pull …

We all know that Google is constantly launching updates to their products (over 1,600 last year), and some of these changes are well covered and some slip by unnoticed. I have quietly been keeping track of some of the major changes I’ve noticed so far this year that would impact …

AdWords advertisers can now schedule imports of offline conversions into AdWords on a regular basis. Google introduced offline conversion importing in AdWords in 2013. Advertisers set up offline conversion events — qualified leads, closed sales and so on — from ad clicks or calls to optimize campaigns based on impact …

Recently, enterprise-focused Google representatives have been encouraging a metric called “Relevance,” which is believed to be one of the three main factors that make up Quality Score. Relevance is a metric which evaluates how pertinent your ad creative is to your account structure and keywords. At AdBasis, we have spent Q1 …

In today’s Google I/O 2017 keynote, the company is touting its advancements in machine learning and artificial intelligence — one of which is a new visual search tool called Google Lens. Google CEO Sundar Pichai described Lens as “a set of vision-based computing capabilities that can understand what you’re looking …