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April 1, 2013 No Comments
Today Google announced Google Nose. I wouldn’t have believed it if I didn’t use it myself. With Google Nose the power of smell is finally included in your internet experience. It’s an amazing technology. It’s currently in beta, but can be tested with a sample of many searches already. Try any of these: peppermint, lemon, [...]
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March 28, 2013 No Comments
There is another great Nashville SEO meeting tonight at Belmont. Guests should RSVP on Meetup. The 6:30pm event will discuss local SEO techniques. Local SEO is vital part of Google’s algorithm. They take special care in helping the small business get found in a sea of corporate listings. So, what you can you do to [...]
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November 23, 2012 No Comments
Nashville SEO & Internet Marketing group will be discussing Google’s Author Highlighting on Thursday, November 29. Let’s meetup there! I’ve wrote often about social signals in search. The simple fact is what happens in social media matters to search engines. Author Highlighting is a great way to bring social and personalization to search engine results. [...]
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July 18, 2012 No Comments
Having a successful pay-per-click account requires attention to detail. Search engines make the PPC entry-point easy for anyone to advertise. However, because of that ease, Google and Microsoft also make it easy for anyone to fail. Without constant tweaking of ads and keywords, money is spent with little results. When creating a new PPC account [...]
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July 12, 2012 1 Comment
Creating negative keywords are essential. The basic premise is that “all traffic is not good traffic”. When I take over a pay-per-click account, the first thing I do is add negatives. That often results in traffic and cost going down. That first step of reducing traffic is often a shocker for the client, but it [...]
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June 2, 2012 No Comments
Google listened. Wow! A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Google’s announcement to end ad rotation in AdWords. It may not have seemed like a big deal to many, but to professional paid search marketers this was a huge deal. Not only was the change concerning, but the Google email response was an extra [...]
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May 30, 2012 2 Comments
Today Google introduced Google+ Local. This affectively puts an end to what we currently know as Google Places. Below are some of the highlights from the recent announcement. Zagat Reviews – This was bound to happen after Google acquired Zagat in September, 2011 Local tab – By going directly to https://plus.google.com/local, users will be taken [...]
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May 18, 2012 3 Comments
On April 30, Google sent a shockwave through the world of AdWords. They announced that ads will not be allowed to rotate indefinitely. “Starting next week, the “rotate” setting for ad rotation will change. Instead of rotating creatives for an indefinite period of time, this setting will only rotate for a period of 30 days. [...]
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April 27, 2012 No Comments
It’s been quite a busy week for Google AdWords. There have been lots of PPC changes. Most for good, but then there is the “improvements” to match types. Google announced new matching behavior for phrase and exact match keywords on April 17th. According to the announcement: “This will change soon. Starting in mid-May, phrase and [...]
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April 16, 2012 2 Comments
I am no stranger to speaking on remarketing. In fact, it’s one of my favorite features that Google has introduced over the past several years. It’s powerful, selective, and … yet, to some, slightly creepy marketing. Over the past weekend I spoke about remarketing at PodCamp Nashville. Below is my presentation. I would love to [...]
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