You know those nightmares where your reflection comes out of the mirror and steals your life? Just me? Well, anyway, this is like that — but in AdWords. Sometimes you make a mistake with AdWords Editor, but instead of changing the existing ad, you create a new one. Or you’re overzealous in converting your old […]
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Google announced Monday a new initiative geared towards improving the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence (AI). The project, called People + AI Research (PAIR), will see Google researchers analyze the way humans interact with AI and the pieces of software it powers. The team, to be led by Google Brain researchers and data visualization
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Want to improve the way you do business in the U.S.? Learn from the Japanese. I recently traveled to Japan on business and pleasure. Anticipating several meetings and events, I began to familiarize myself with local customs and of course, Japanese business etiquette. While you may already know that politeness and respect are cornerstones of
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Twitter has started linking to Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMPs) from its native Android and iOS apps, shifting more traffic away from standard mobile web pages and giving publishers another reason to pay attention to how their AMPs display and perform. Twitter hasn’t made any public announcements about the change since Google I/O in May, and it’s
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Since 1998, Google has used its homepage to host an invariably inventive ‘doodle’. The Google Doodle actually began its life as a humorous out-of-office message for the company’s co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. To let everyone know they had gone to the Burning Man festival, they placed the festival’s icon behind the second ‘o’
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Googles featured snippets are the new Google authorship, albeit less exciting because featured snippets steal links from publishers in SERPs. Whether you like them or not, that’s the change we have to deal with because if you are not featured, your competitor will. Here are three recent studies of Google’s Featured snippets you need to
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NOW UPDATED! This post was updated in July 2017 with new information about retargeting your prospects. Enjoy! Let’s talk about why you should be retargeting. But first off… What Is Retargeting? Have you ever visited a website and then later you start seeing banners for that website following you around all over the web? That’s remarketing — or
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Back in mid-March, The Guardian withdrew “all its online advertising from Google and YouTube after it emerged that its ads were being inadvertently placed next to extremist material.” Shortly after, more UK brands followed and stopped their ads running on various Google platforms. This was not the first time that these concerns were voiced. For years now, advertisers
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If you’ve ever been frustrated at the amount of time you spend creating PPC reports, you’re not alone. Today, I’ll do my best to help you with a new AdWords script I just finished. The severity of the reporting problem became very clear to me at a conference I recently attended. Attendees were asked to leave sticky notes describing the
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Marketers have known for years that getting featured on the first page of Google is like striking gold. When it happens, you’ve finally made it. The floodgates open and traffic begins to flow like never before. And, when multiple pages of content are featured for their variety of search terms, it can transform your business.
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