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March 28, 2011 No Comments
In 2010, starting with the Super Bowl commercial Parisian Love , Google revealed a series of “Search Stories” . This resulted in many self-created and fun videos. As good as these videos were, there was one major item left out of Google’s efforts. They left out the value of AdWords. That’s now changed with some [...]
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February 2, 2011 1 Comment
Around this time last year, I was dominating organic search results with a few Super Bowl commercial keywords. (Ask me about that later). I noticed Home Away is back on the horse again with a Super Bowl Ad. This time they are smushing babies, with a test baby, to show the problems with small hotel [...]
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December 28, 2010 No Comments
Based on billions of worldwide searches in 2010, below is a 2010 year in review from Google.
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November 29, 2010 No Comments
Google recently announced Product Listing Ads. Product ads combine AdWords with the Google Merchant Center. Product Ads do not require any keywords or ad text to setup. They are automatically created based on the user search query matching up with products in the Merchant Account. See video below for a synopsis of Google Product Ads.
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October 14, 2010 No Comments
The Display Campaign Optimizer is a recent tool by Google that optimizes ad placement based on a targeted CPA. The goal is to deliver as many conversions as possible at the lowest cost possible. The Display Campaign Optimizer takes into account landing page and ad quality, similar to the quality score formula. Because it’s on [...]
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