As one of my many new year’s resolutions I was doing some house cleaning on my sites and stumbled upon this post I wrote back in 2007 about Google’s IP Exclusion tool. I think it’s a topic that needs to be revisited. I’ve seen consistent increase in competition and CPC’s across my client base for…
Maybe its just me, but is anyone else getting an error with the Adwords Editor when trying to post to an account?
I’ll be honest, I don’t use the content network that much or at all for a variety of reasons but I know there are the select few who it does work for. If you are one of those few and would like to keep your ads from showing up in people’s email, Barry at SERoundTable…
It’s no secret that Google updated it’s Adwords Placement algo yesterday and while many of its effects are being talked about in places like the WebMasterWorld Forums there are a couple of other changes that are not being picked up by the masses. Yet. Since last year sometime Google has been on a mission to…
I just finished taking my Adwords Professional exam in order to re-up my “Adwords Professional Certification” and I have determined that Google wants you to fail! I have some beef with this thing and here is why. First off, I had to pay $50 AGAIN to re-certify myself. I’ve already had to do this once,…
It seems like every other day Google is introducing a new feature into their Adwords accounts with the most recent feature being preferred cost bidding. This means that advertisers can choose to let Adwords control their Max CPC in order to keep their CPC constant. It sounds pretty confusing but think of it as a…
Barry posted a question regarding how the click activity will change on the paid search ads based on the changes Google made on the SERPs. I guess Barry didn’t see that I already posted the answer. Just kidding, I don’t expect the rustybrick to be one of my 4 readers but I’ll sum up my…
The title says it all and I’m sure I’m not the first to notice it but with all the quality score updates, algorithm and scoring changes within Adwords, it is quite possible that Google has lost control of accuracy. A little background on where this post began: I’ve been searching for new keywords to put…
You may see something different in your Google search results today. There is no more blue background on the top results, Google has officially made the change to yellow according to the Adwords Blog. Over the past few years, the sponsored links above the search results have been displayed in a box with a blue…
Just keep a heads up on you budgets and CTRs over the next week or so. Google Adwords is rolling out the reported changes from changing the paid ads on the search results to a yellow background. They have been testing this for a while and more and more people are coming to me with…