Countless marketers and business owners swear by Google’s marketing tools. This is evident in the perennial corporate increases in AdWords pay-per-click (PPC) budgets, and it makes sense. After all, online marketing yields new leads at a rate of 54 percent. But marketers who neglect call tracking are missing a major …
Read More »New AdWords interface alpha is rolling out to more advertisers
Google has been slowly building out the new AdWords interface, which was introduced last March. More accounts have been granted alpha access, and on Tuesday, Google’s head of search ads, Jerry Dischler, said it is rolling out to even more AdWords accounts in the next few months. When you first …
Read More »SearchCap: Google new AdWords interface, ads by AdWords & IF functions
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: New AdWords interface alpha is rolling out to more advertisersJan 31, 2017 by Ginny Marvin As Google continues to build out the new UI, more advertisers …
Read More »AdWords IF functions roll out for ad customization as Standard Text Ads sunset
First, a moment of silence for the Standard Text Ad format that held on for 15+ years. Today marks the end. And with that, Google is rolling out AdWords IF functions globally to give advertisers the ability to customize their ads in much the same way ad customizers allow, but without the …
Read More »Google launches Ads Added by AdWords pilot: What we know so far
Automation is nothing new in AdWords, but this month, Google launched a pilot that adds new text ads to advertisers’ accounts. Dubbed Ads Added by AdWords, the program started on January 26. Not surprisingly, this news has set off alarm bells among paid search managers that worry about Google usurping …
Read More »Bing Ads launches Automated Imports to sync campaigns from AdWords
One of the most successful features of Bing Ads has been Google Import, which lets advertisers port over existing AdWords campaigns into Bing Ads. It has significantly spurred adoption by making it mostly effortless to give the platform a chance. Now, Bing Ads is adding Automated Imports for campaigns ported …
Read More »Mind the store: Using AdWords to drive offline sales
Google has measured over three billion visits to physical stores in the past two years, and you’ll soon be able to track store visits from the Google Display Network. That’s a whole lot of visits, but it’s only scratching the surface of what’s possible. Location-based searches are on the rise, …
Read More »AdWords Managed Accounts can finally share negative keyword lists across accounts
Google has quietly added another perk for Managed Accounts: the ability to create and share negative keyword lists across accounts. Maybe you’ve been laboriously adding the same lists of negative keyword accounts manually or using a script to automate cross-account negative lists. Now, for accounts in a managed account (formerly My …
Read More »SearchCap: AdWords updates, Bing Ads Valentine’s Day trends & voice search
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: AdWords Managed Accounts can finally share negative keyword lists across accountsJan 9, 2017 by Ginny Marvin Create a single list of negative keywords that can be …
Read More »Amazon begins testing Product Listing Ads on AdWords
In 2012, Google’s Product Search was transformed from an organic product search tool into a pay-to-play shopping destination. Since the removal of Product Search Amazon has not participated with Google’s Product Listing Ads. Until now. Merkle discovered Amazon testing PLAs in the wild – something completely new for world’s largest …
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