News Updates

The latest breaking PPC news and our reactions and predictions.


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Worlds Colliding: Mobile Browsing Seriously Impacts Brick and Mortar Shopping

Google just released a serious bit of research about mobile browsing. What else is new, right? Except this hunk-a-burin’ insight is strictly focused on mobile-meets-retail shopping habits, and their findings have the power to deliver legitimate value for your mobile …

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Google Tweaks Enhanced Campaigns for the Better: Ad Group Level Bid Modifiers

The PPC obsessed folks of the world received a bit of a win yesterday when Google announced that they will be releasing ad group level mobile bid adjustments soon.  This comes on the heels of the release of enhanced campaigns …

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Full Value of Mobile – A Dream Coming True?

Earlier this week Google announced the Full Value of Mobile Initiative. As Google puts it, people take a variety of online and offline actions on their smartphones, including calling a business, downloading an app, looking for directions to a store, …

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Google AdWords Picks the Final Four Champion

Okay, so it’s not AdWords directly who’s picking the winner, but I put together a new statistic to rank each and every team in the NCAA Men’s Tournament by some of the metrics that matter in PPC: namely search volume …

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“Big Facebook Reveal” Actually IS Pretty Big News!

Facebook has rolled out an improved News Feed that will most certainly persuade you and your clients to give Facebook ads a shot. Yesterday The Man himself, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, led a presentation about the new News Feed that …

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Infographic: How Google Makes Money From Mobile

Our friends at Wordstream have created a new infographic displaying some really awesome (and easy to read) information about the different inroads Google has created into the mobile device world, either directly or indirectly related to PPC. We thought it …

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2 Useful Ways To Improve Your Campaigns With New Analytics Change History

When big changes, like Google’s Enhanced Campaigns, hit the news stream, people can’t stop talking about it. But what about all of those changes that occurred amidst the confusion and excitement that no one ever noticed? In 2012, Pope Benedict …

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AdWords Editor 10.0.1 Is Here and it Supports Enhanced Campaigns

If you’ve been following any of the discussions we’ve been having on PPC Hero or our webinars concerning Google’s new Enhanced Campaigns, you might have heard me saying that I was waiting for the new version of AdWords Editor before …

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Enhanced Campaign Answers: Webinar Recording

We approached this webinar with the idea that Google’s Enhanced Campaigns update to AdWords had a lot of people asking questions, and it didn’t take long for that little hypothesis to prove correct! Watch the recording below to see Jeff …

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Search Funnels Have Arrived in the AdWords Interface. Use Them.

Lost amid last week’s reactions to Google’s new Enhanced Campaigns was a pretty nifty enhancement to the Google interface.  Search funnel information is now available for inclusion in the AdWords reporting, right alongside the rest of your data.  As long …