The question of whether or not an advertiser should bid on branded terms is a debate that has been going on for a while. The argument against it is the fact that Google is doing such a good job ranking branded terms that its not needed to bid on them. Well, Johnathan Mendezs has a…
With the ever growing competition it is more important than ever to make sure your accounts are lean mean ROI machines. I’ve seen a lot of accounts that make very common mistakes that you just can’t get away with anymore. Content Network management – I know I’ve beat the dead horse about my dislike for…
In a recent NY Time article, Google let the cat out of the bag that in the upcoming months they will now show the URLs where your ads appear if you are part of the content network. Jensense has good thoughts on the topic from multiple perspectives but from an advertisers point of view I…
According to the Adwords Blog Today, we began rolling out improvements to the Quality Score algorithm, which will update the Quality Score for keywords in your account over the next 3 to 4 days. As I mentioned last week, the goal of this change is to improve the quality of ads that we serve to…
As of today, all AdWords advertisers can pause and resume keywords (for keyword-targeted campaigns), sites (for site-targeted campaigns), and ad creatives. As you can see from the picture below, this feature is functionally similar to the pause/resume feature on the Campaign Summary page – we’ve simply extended it to the keyword, sites and ad variations…
I posted about this a month ago and to prove to you I wasn’t making stuff up again, here is the official announcement on the Adwords blog. This is nothing but a good thing as Google aims to give us a little more transparency in our accounts, making it easier for advertisers and account managers…
According to Google’s AdWords Team, there is a new BETA for advertisers wanting to test cost-per-click site-targeted campaigns. The new BETA will help advertisers with increased flexibility. If you are site targeting it allows advetisers to choosing the bidding option of most interest. In addition, it will be possible to create new CPC campaigns and…
While I was at the AlwaysOn Media conference I kept running across the question: “how will advertising live on mobile phones?”
Shoemoney posted this article about how he bolded keywords in his Adwords ads and increased his clicks by 25%. In theory he is exactly right, having bold words in your ads will definitely increase traffic but only to an extent. I also don’t believe his > reason is exactly the reason why he saw an…