Recently, news emerged that Google had launched a machine-learning technology called RankBrain to rate and deliver search results. Google began working with this artificial intelligence several months ago. This new system is already being used for a large fraction of search queries. What Is RankBrain? RankBrain is one of the …
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How to Create Mobile Campaigns in Google AdWords
80% of the Swiss internet users access the web via smartphone. This is an increase compared to 2014, when 75% were using their smartphone to surf on the internet. Thus it is getting increasingly important to optimize your AdWords campaigns for mobile devices. In the following we will show you …
Amazon SEO in 9 Steps
With almost 25 million visitors per month, Amazon is the biggest online shop in Germany (as of October 2014). Thus Amazon is an important sales channel for many online retailers. Like in Google Search, it is crucial to appear among the first positions in Amazon to get clicks and achieve …
New Google Recommendations for AJAX Websites
Google Webmaster Central recently announced that Google was changing its recommendations for AJAX web pages. What do you need to do to ensure that your AJAX pages are crawlable? The good news is: nothing! Google’s bots are able to render Javascript and understand web pages like modern browsers do, even …
How to Use the Yandex Keyword Planner
Yandex is the leading search engine in Russia and therefore an ideal channel for a successful online advertising campaign in this target market. A keyword research is indispensable if you plan to do search engine marketing with Yandex. For this matter Yandex offers the keyword planner tool “Wordstat”. In the …
Google AdWords Tutorial: 5 Targeting Options for the Google Display Network
The Google display network consists of millions of websites, videos and apps where your ads can be displayed. Website operators can register through Google AdSense in the display network to offer ad placements on their website for AdWords users. In the following we present you five targeting options for the …
Accelerated Mobile Pages Make the Mobile Web Faster
Last week Google introduced the “Accelerated Mobile Pages” (AMP) project together with Twitter and several news websites. AMP allows you to provide reduced versions of your website in Google, which load faster on mobile devices. With this project, Google responds to the recent new programs of Facebook and Apple that …
New Advertising Possibility: YouTube Shopping Ads
Last week Google announced the launch of shopping ads for YouTube. They will be available in the next months. These new shopping ads give YouTube advertisers the possibility to offer products directly in partner videos. How the YouTube Shopping Ads Work Similar to Google shopping ads, the YouTube shopping ads …
SEO Tutorial: Yandex Webmaster Tools
The Russian search engine Yandex offers the tool Yandex.Webmaster, which is similar to the Google Search Console (formerly Webmaster Tools) and Bing Webmaster Tools. If Russia is an important target country for your business and you are optimizing your website for Yandex, you should use Yandex.Webmaster. It gives you control …
Analytics Tips: 6 Tag Management Tools You Should Know
Tag manager tools allow you to quickly and easily add and update tags on your website. Tags are small snippets of code that add new features or functionalities to your site, like web analytics tracking, remarketing or conversion tracking, optimization and testing services, and many other marketing technologies. Tag management …
New Google AdWords Targeting Option: Customer Match
With the new Google AdWords targeting option “Customer Match” you can address your target group more specifically. “Customer Match” allows you to define the relevant target groups based on email lists. You can upload your email lists. They will be matched to logged in Google users. Like this you can …
Google AdWords Tutorial: How to Create Dynamic Search Ads
Visually dynamic search ads look like normal Google AdWords search ads in the Google search results. The only difference is that the ad title will reflect the entered search term. Google uses the website content to display the most relevant ads and link to the suitable page. Therefore Google creates …