The world of business has become awash with acronyms. Many of these cause people to simply shrug when asked what they think the letters stand for. But is this wise? Some say that ignorance is bliss, but in business can you truly afford to be ignorant? PPC has only recently appeared in the business world...Read More
Google Maps is getting an upgrade. The company said in a blog post that it has updated driving, navigation, transit and explore maps to better highlight information that the company thinks will be most relevant. That means gas stations when you’re driving or more prominently featured train and bus stations if you’re riding the rails...Read More
Clark Boyd Originally launched in 2011, AdWords Express (AWE) set out to provide an accessible entry to pay-per-click (PPC) advertising for small businesses. The target market is the large number of merchants who may not have the expertise or the time to invest in an advanced AdWords campaign. Moreover, they often don’t need the complex...Read More
Magento is a powerful e-commerce platform, but it’s certainly not without its SEO problems. Here are a few of the most common issues I run into with Magento sites. Let’s talk about how to fix them. 1. Default Title Tags By default, Magento uses the product name as the title tag. Since the title tag...Read More
Corey Morris The maturity and widespread acceptance of social media marketing, combined with the expectation of being able to track everything in the era of big data, has created a lot of expectations. It has also raised deeper questions about performance. Using Google Analytics, we have the power to go deeper to prove the impact...Read More
Matt Southern Google AdWords has rolled out Showcase Shopping ads to more countries just in time for the holiday season. Showcase Shopping ads have been designed to meet the needs of today’s mobile shoppers, while giving businesses the opportunity to sell more products. This new ad type allows advertisers to put together a selection of products...Read More
Mindy Weinstein Google doesn’t provide us with an instructional manual on how to master and understand their ranking algorithm. Sure, we have Google’s webmaster guidelines and blogs, but most of what we learn along the way is through experience, experimentation and our own learning. One of my first experiences in SEO was to diagnose a...Read More
Salesforce is partnering with Google for an integration that will enable sales, marketing and advertising data to flow between the Analytics 360 Suite and Salesforce’s Marketing and Sales clouds. Read the Google blog post. The integration of 360 and Salesforce’s Marketing and Sales clouds will be available in the first half of 2018 at no...Read More
Pauline Jakober Relationships are hard. And your company’s relationship with PPC is no different. You and your marketing team may give PPC your best shot — but still not get the results you expect. Ultimately, you become frustrated with paid search and decide to break off your on-again, off-again relationship. But, as with personal relationships,...Read More
Matt Southern ‘); $(‘#scheader .sc-logo’).append(‘ ‘); $(‘#scheader’).append(”); $(‘#scheader .scdetails’).append(‘ ‘+cat_head_params.sponsor+’ ‘); $(‘#scheader .scdetails’).append(cat_head_params.sponsor_text); $(‘#scheader’).append(”); if(“undefined”!=typeof __gaTracker){ $(‘#scheader a’).click(function(){ __gaTracker( “send”,”event”, “Sponsored Category Click Var 1”, “search-engine-tools-and-downloads”, ( $(this).attr(‘href’) ) ); }); } } }); }); In an effort to help marketers integrate the data they need where they need it, Google AdWords is making an...Read More
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