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 …
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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 …
Google Grants Application for AdWords: A Step-by-Step Tutorial for NGOs
If your nonprofit organization has not heard of Google for Nonprofits or Google Grants yet, it is missing out on a huge opportunity to reach out to the audience. Google would give you 10.000 US Dollar monthly AdWords budget, and we show you how to get your hands on that. …
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 …
New In Google AdWords: Calculate Your Own Metrics
There are many useful metrics in your Google AdWords account to evaluate the performance of your campaigns. Now it is even possible to make your own calculations within the AdWords feature custom columns. With the new custom formulas you can easily create your own metrics. You can find the custom …
Top 5 Trends in Search Engine Marketing for 2016
In the field of search engine marketing, especially in Google AdWords, there are many new features you should integrate in your SEM strategy in 2016. We present you with the five most important search engine marketing trends for 2016. 1. Video Advertising YouTube is the second largest search engine in …