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The Siren Song of the 5-Cent Click
Paid search conditions have improved in recent years, but do your old habits still linger? A summer of home renovations gave me a whole new…
Google+: An Evolution in Social, a Revolution in Permission
Google+ is not another Facebook, yet poses a threat to the social network for non-social reasons. In terms of sheer user adoption, Google+ may be…
Display Ads for ROI: Hardest-Working Ads Online?
Too often, display advertising has been coddled, while paid search ads will do anything to make the paying customers happy. While search marketing has often…
4 Reasons Not to Break Your Campaign’s Continuity
It’s important to think about long-term strategies and compromises that minimize the damage caused to paid search ROI with needless rebuilds. In golf, there’s a…
7 Tips to Filter Out Lame Searches
A look at some categories of meta messages that might be relevant to your ad strategy. Last time, I explained that ad formats and copy…
It’s Not Just the Message in Your Ad, It’s the Meta-Message
Make sure you don’t just focus on what your ads literally say, but, more importantly, on what they convey. When Google first made qualifying advertisers…