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…
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…
Dear Yahoo! Search Marketing Advertiser, You will be unable to access your Yahoo! Search Marketing account for approximately six hours this coming weekend while we update our systems. The outage will begin at 8:00 p.m. Pacific Time on Friday, March 2, and is scheduled to conclude at 2:00 a.m. Pacific Time on Saturday, March 3….
CNET.com is reporting that next month Google will allow advertisers to block specific IPs. Beginning next month, Google plans to give advertisers the ability to prevent their pay-per-click ads from being shown to competitors suspected of repeatedly clicking on the ads to drive up their cost. This will be a great tool for those who…
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…
The adCenter blog announced some new features being launched for adCenter beta. The upgrades are Easily go to any Campaign or Ad Group in your account via our improved navigation ? Import your other search campaigns, including third-party campaigns, into adCenter with one Excel spreadsheet or comma-separated values (CSV) file. ? Delete poor-performing keywords right…
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…