Monthly Archives: April, 2017

Google Search Quality Crisis

Google’s Biggest Search Quality Crisis

What Google is doing to prevent incorrect search results from appearing The mighty have fallen, as Google continues to navigate its biggest search quality crisis. Once the “gold standard” in search, Google has been under fire recently for poor – and sometimes dangerous – results including fake news posts. Recovering from the fallout won’t be Read More…

LinkedIn Lead Gen Forms

LinkedIn Introduces Lead Gen Forms

LinkedIn hopes new Lead Gen Forms will improve results for marketers Marketing on LinkedIn is relatively expensive compared to other social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. Consider CPCs for example: Facebook’s minimum bid is often under a $1, Twitter’s minimum suggested bid ranges between $1 and $2.50, while LinkedIn’s suggested bid often starts at Read More…

Adwords converted clicks retiring

AdWords Says Goodbye to Converted Clicks Metric

AdWords advertisers will no longer be able to track converted clicks Among its many updates, Google announced that AdWords would be removing the converted clicks metric from reporting. Advertisers who use converted clicks to optimize campaigns would no longer be able to do so, as this metric has been replaced with “conversions” data. What’s the Read More…

AdWords Exact Match Targeting

Big Changes Coming to AdWords Exact Match Targeting

Google is changing the way AdWords exact match targeting works Advertisers, be prepared to pay for more “exact match” clicks. Ads will begin to show for exact match keywords for searches using different word order and function words now that Google has broadened what “exact match” means. AdWords may ignore the word order and function Read More…