In a recent development, fifty US states and territories, led by Texas, announced an investigation into Google’s “potential monopolistic behavior” as regulators are growing more…
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It’s a common issue that a mobile website has a lower conversion rate than the desktop version, due to a range of factors. However, since…
By looking at how much of Google’s search traffic is left for anyone other than Google itself, a recent study by SparkToro found that 49%…
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At the end of July, Google announced a change to the match type targeting available in Google Ads. On the one hand, the changes help…
After the recent ‘Google Marketing Live‘ show in the U.S., Google announced some important new controls to automated bidding for Ads. It claims that more…
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For online marketers targeting a local geographic area, getting a business listing appearing on Google Maps searches is vital, and this can be done with…
At the end of March, Google announced that all attribution reports in Google Ads will now include cross-device activity and conversions from May 2019, giving…
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Average position has always been an important metric for advertisers to use in Google Ads (AdWords), but in recent months this has been demoted from…
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Google has always been about improving user-experience on the web. This focus has recently been upon improving mobile load speed and in July 2018 it…
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There are a wide range of different metrics available to view within a Google Ads campaign, and Google have just announced a new figure that…
With the start of the new year, it’s a good time to review marketing objective and targets, with one of the main key performance indicators…
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One increasing trend in the search market over the past year or so has been the growth in the volume of searches using voice, either…
If you’re running display ad campaigns in Google Ads, you may have seen listings for anonymous sites in the placements reports. These have been around…
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Three out of four users who search for a local business on Google end up walking in within 24 hours. This is very predictable behaviour…
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Google has introduced a number of new metrics in Google Ads which can be added and viewed in the data columns for ads to help…
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