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Google Ads’ Average Position metric is going away on September 29th. The average position metric will be replaced by two new metrics:
Impressions. (Top)%.
Impressions. (Absolute Top)%
So any rules, scripts, reports, filters, scorecards in dashboards, or custom columns that include the ‘average position’ metric will be affected and should be updated accordingly. Because come the end of September, they’re all going to stop working!
An important aspect of advertising is being in the right place, at the right time. If you’re running PPC Ads you need to make sure they’re showing at the right times. But how do you work out what the right time is? And once you have, how do you set up Ad Scheduling on Google Ads? In this post we’ll explain why you need to set up Ad Scheduling and how to do it.
How To Manage SEO Links Like a Pro Link management continues to be a powerful SEO signal to search engines. In general, search engines like Google are secretive and stingy about the information they share with Webmasters. So how can you manage your SEO and link profile like a Pro? I’ll share the SEO link …
If content marketers want to capture diverse and meaningful audiences, they need to look deep into their marketing toolbox. The digital marketing cosmos is full of many different types of content marketing formats that can dramatically improve (and even reshape) the most clever marketing strategies.
We often tell our clients that privacy on the Web is an illusion. In a series of videos, DuckDuckGo (DDG) nips at Google’s Achilles’ heel: user data collection for ad targeting. They also paint Facebook with the same brush with their filtering tactics. DDG released a video on five reasons not to use Google; it reiterates many points we already know. What’s surprising is how Google responded.
Winning in paid search requires a tight relationship between your ad copy, ad extensions and landing page. Google Ads typically directs people from the search engine results page (SERP) to a designated landing page. But what if you want to send people somewhere else on your site? Or you want to add more than one option? Then you need to set up sitelinks.
Digital marketing can be a long and complicated process. So the faster you can get talking to a potential customer the better. One of the quickest ways we’ve found to do that is using PPC ads and call extensions. A lead can be looking at Google’s search engine results page one minute, and on the phone with you the next. No steps in between to get lost. If you want more calls from your ads, it’s time to learn about call extensions.
Building SEO through inbound links is a valid and very effective marketing strategy. However, many marketers — and their agencies — are looking for shortcuts. The adage “if it looks too good to be true, it probably is” certainly applies in the case of a link scheme. These schemes can be complex, and look like great opportunities when first presented. As a White Hat SEO agency, we’ve followed Google’s quality guidelines for nearly a decade. When we fell prey to a “link opportunity,” we thought we’d turn lemons into lemonade. Here’s our story so you can learn from our mistake.
According to Newton, what goes up, must come down. With over 10 years of steady economic growth behind us — following The Great Recession — many economists share their predictions of what lies ahead… namely a slowdown in economic growth. With the lowest unemployment rates in history coupled with strong consumer spending, businesses have invested in marketing. Recently, due to international uncertainty and political instability, the economy has wobbled. So it’s time to remind ourselves about following economic trends and more closely managing our marketing budgets. Because who knows what’s around the corner.
Link management continues to be a powerful SEO signal to search engines. In general, search engines like Google are secretive and stingy about the information they share with Webmasters. So how can you manage your SEO and link profile like a Pro? I’ll share the SEO link tools in my toolkit along with the strategies I use to manage and build SEO for our clients.
