In the highly competitive world of AdWords, finding a way to lower the Cost-per-click is a vital and necessary step in competing with competitors and ultimately succeeding in your online advertising efforts. When it comes to lowering your cost per click, Quality Score is very important. Most advertisers understand Quality …
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SEA with Bing: Successful Because of Lower CPCs?
Bing is gaining increasing reach in Switzerland and is thus becoming increasingly interesting for advertisers. An industry-wide assumption is that Bing can offer cheaper CPCs than Google. We have checked for you whether this assumption does in fact correspond to reality. Google or Bing – The Analysis We have analyzed …
AdWords Promotion Extensions: Boost Your Campaigns
AdWords’ new interface came with several new features, one of which is the new promotion extension. This is a great tool to highlight any promotion or discount an advertiser offers on services and products. If you have any sales or promotions, you should start using them today.
6 SEO and SEA Quick Wins for the Holiday Season
As consumers are being flooded with Christmas specials in brick and mortar stores, some online vendors have not even started bothering about the festive season yet. As the below Google Trends screenshot shows, the search volume for “Christmas present” already starts increasing as early as the end of August. If …
Data Privacy and Compliance in Digital Marketing: What You Should Know
The importance of the topics data privacy and compliance is currently increasing due to the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that will come into force on the 25th of May 2018. As a result, it is now more important than ever to ask yourself if your online marketing …
Four Use Cases Showing the Successful Use of AdWords Scripts
If you have been working with AdWords, chances are you have heard about AdWords Scripts at some stage. If you are already using AdWords Scripts, you will probably know that they are a great way to save time and improve performance. If you have not yet implemented AdWords scripts, read …
How to Optimize Your SEO efforts for RankBrain
Google’s RankBrain has grown up and is involved in every single search query. What does it do and, more importantly, what can YOU do? What is RankBrain? RankBrain is a machine-learning AI system which helps Google process search results. It was added to the Google algorithm Hummingbird in 2015. Back …
Quality Assurance for Your Ads in the Google Display Network and on YouTube
The Google Display Network (GDN) and YouTube received a lot of criticism in the past few weeks. This was after research was published by renowned newspapers like The Times that showed that ads from famous brands appeared next to extremist, populist and pornographic content. Since then Swiss television aired a …
AdWords Expanded Text Ads Are Expanding Your Possibilities
It is dubbed the greatest change to Google Ads in the last 15 years and, unless you do not like change, it is probably already rocking your world. The Expanded Text Ads have been here for quite a while already, and they are slowly gaining territory over the Standard Text …
New Ad Extension for Google AdWords: Price Extensions
It can be quite a disappointment for users to find out that the ad they are clicking leads to a product that does not match their price expectations. Someone at the Google AdWords headquarters must have had that train of thoughts when coming up with the next thing for text ads: Price …
Performance Optimization for AdWords Shopping Campaigns
As a Google Partner agency, we were part of the lectures program in the Google Workshop Space at this year’s Swiss Online Marketing Exhibition (SOM). In our presentation about Google Shopping, we showed how shopping campaigns with Google AdWords work. We also outlined the optimization possibilities in the Google Merchant …
Google AdWords: Right Column Ads Removed from Google Search
Google has globally removed all text ads in the right column of Google Search. PLAs ( Shopping campaigns ) and the Knowledge Graph will however continue to be displayed on the right side. In addition, it is now possible that an additional fourth top position text ad can appear above …