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Click Through Reads #3: New Facebook and LinkedIn Features

Welcome to another week of Click Through Reads! This week is all about the new new. New Facebook...

A Different Take on Close Variants

What are Close Variants?

Over the last few years, we’ve seen Google change the way different match...

Click Through Reads #2: More COVID-19 Updates and Opportunities

Here we are, the second week of Click Through Reads. A majority of you are probably reading this...

It's Free to Sell on Google Shopping - What Does This Mean for Shopping Ads?

Google announced it’s now free to sell on Google Shopping. The majority of the Google shopping tab...

Click Through Reads #1: Contextual Targeting and Covid-19 Ad Credits

We’ve been at it with our indelible Backlink Breaker series for awhile, and we’ve decided to...

3 Things to Help You Get Back Into Google Ads

Have you ever worked in paid advertising, then stopped for a bit to try something new, only to...

Don't Waste Your Digital Marketing Budget

An Essential Three-Step Checklist for New Online Marketers and Small Businesses

Creating your...

How to Succeed in This Time of Crisis

These are clearly exceptional times. With the spread of the Covid-19, those of us in the...

Display Campaigns and Retargeting

We focus on running a dedicated retargeting display campaign and resume using the retargeting...

Message Testing Philosophy

The goals of any ads are 2 fold:

  1. We want to serve an ad that catches the eye of our end user,...

Time to Embrace Smart Shopping Ads?

A World of Pending Automation

Automation. Smart Campaigns. These are things that we as digital...

SEM Messaging

There are two purposes of an ad:

  1. Get people to click

  2. Get people to take a desired action

Google...

Campaign Naming Conventions

Campaign naming seems like an unimportant, mundane concept, but it’s not. In order to maintain...

Single keyword ad groups vs small keyword ad groups

Single keyword ad groups (SKAGs) were the standard that we used for years, but with the...

Google Ads evolved, The Alpha-Beta Process has to evolve too

Over the past few years, Google Ads has changed more than it had over the past 10 years. Expanded...

SEM Account Glossary of Terms

To start off our SEM Key Concepts series, we’re going to cover the basics with a glossary of key...

Writing Ad Copy for Adwords: The Technical Process

For the final post in our Google Ads 101 series, we’re going to cover our technical process for...

How to Build Keywords and New Ads

Today we’re going to tackle one of the fundamental tasks in running AdWords accounts: building...

How To Peform a Low Search Volume (LSV) Keyword Removal

Next up on our Google Ads 101 series: how to perform a Low Search Volume Keyword Removal. Let’s...

How to Perform a Callout Extension Analysis

Today we’re covering an important part of our Ad Words Reporting 101 series: How to Perform a...