To put it simply, site search lets you see what users are searching for on your site. You can analyze exactly who’s searching, what terms they’re searching for, and compare engagement for those that use this feature versus those that don’t. Generally users that are searching on your site show strong intent as they’re actively […]
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How to Make Seasonality Adjustments in Smart Bidding Campaigns
As advertisers prepare for the holiday season, Google has announced a new Smart Bidding feature that will give advertisers a way to adjust for seasonality. Smart bidding strategies like Target CPA and Target ROAS use machine learning to optimize for conversions or conversion value. While these strategies consider seasonality, Google has now given advertisers the ability to let […]
SEO 101: The Top 5 Things You Need to Know
Approximately 93% of online searches begin with a search engine. Let that sink in for a second. With more consumers than ever turning to the internet to solve their problems: It is mission critical to understand what SEO is and how it works to ensure you (& your clients!) are successful in navigating the web’s […]
How to Use Negative Keywords to Save on PPC Spend
Every time you guess, you bring bias and risk into your conclusions. That’s why using Search Query Reports to find inefficient spend is a surefire way to save your company $$$. Let’s get started. How to Pull Search Query Reports Pulling search query reports is fairly easy. In Google, go to the Keywords tab and […]
What to Do When Your Campaign is Limited by Budget
Your campaign is limited by budget—what does this mean? We’ve all seen the alert before: Some see it as a bad thing, some see it as an opportunity, and some just want that ugly red text to go away. When a campaign is limited by budget, here’s what’s happening: You’re missing out on traffic: Google is only […]
Don’t Forget Bing PPC When Considering a Pay Per Click Campaign
Bing, the second most popular search engine has advantages over Google when it comes to running a PPC campaign. When local small businesses start to consider a Pay Per Click or PPC campaign, the considerations almost always start with Google. And why not? Google dominates the search browser industry with 65% of all searches performed […]
Google Ads Budget: How Much Should You Spend?
How to Manage Google Ads Budget for Small Businesses Starting a business can be a bit tricky. At this particular stage, you are not quite sure of where to begin and what ways to generate traffic. A simple way to find customers for your startup is by using Google Ads. This is a powerful tool […]
How to Identify & Optimize Paid Search Fluctuations
Problem 1: How do I efficiently monitor campaign performance, and identify what caused changes over time? One of the most common ways to keep a pulse on campaign performance is through regular reports. Unfortunately, reporting is a challenge that every digital marketer faces. With the ability to track data at every step of a user’s […]
SEO Factors Most Important to Voice Search
A Semrush study sheds light on the SEO factors most important in voice search results. As we, and virtually every other SEO agency in the world has been proclaiming, voice search is going to have a huge impact on the way people find products and services on the internet in the not distant future. A […]
Why Trust is So Important for Google Ranking
Were you hit by the recent June 2019 Google core ranking update? I hope not. Some of the big news agencies suffered with this update like the Dailymail.co.uk who lost 50% of their traffic overnight . This is catastrophic for some businesses and there have been lots of complaints suggesting that Google should give a warning when […]
