Could Google, who reaps the lion’s share of paid search spend from American advertisers, see its revenue grow 33% year over year if overall paid search spending declined by over 14% as Kantar Media reported?
Have you ever wanted a site to appear in country-specific organic search results, without going through the trouble of creating full-blown country-specific sites? Well, you’re in luck, but be ready to act like a guinea pig! One of the most rewarding aspects of search engine optimization, is continually working in unique, and sometimes, strange situations. We [...]
This is an update to our previous article on the SEO Impact of Losing Search Query Data back in late October. Now that more time has passed and Google’s rolled out secure sessions (with suppressed query data) widely for its logged in users, we can assess the damage with more accuracy. Here’s where we are [...]
Google recently introduced the ability to automatically push keyword bids to the top of page CPC. Does it make sense for advertisers to utilize this new feature?
Our read on Black Friday paid search performance and what it portends for the rest of the holiday season.
The tumult around Google’s move to encrypt searches for signed-in users obscured the larger issue that data for organic search traffic has never been as robust as the data we have for paid search.
To help make sure your CSE efforts not only hold up, but excel this year, we offer 10 tips for a successful holiday program.
Pay-per-call is here, but will it take-off?
Conversation with Jonathan Alferness on new landing page Quality Score signals
RKG has been experimenting Dynamic Search Ads for some time now, here’s our read on this significant new AdWords product.
Trend data is fascinating, and occasionally even useful!
Paid search remained resilient in Q3, with data from the RKG client base showing that year over year growth rates accelerated for both ad spend and revenue.
In just a few short weeks we will find ourselves engrossed in bidding adjustments, ad copy changes and other time sensitive updates, so now is the time to get a few extra projects checked off your list that will pay off during the holiday frenzy.
We’ve long maintained that conversion rates don’t vary much by position, but we haven’t had such a clear view of the position of each ad click until now.
A recount and analysis of some of the more interesting bits from the Google antitrust hearing.
…And the SERP changes continue.
While ValueTrack can provide useful insights about individual ad clicks, its functionality isn’t as well known as other AdWords reporting features.
A Google test could mark a significant turning point in the convergence of SEO and PPC.
Click-by-click position data available now in AdWords!
After an ad matching change that was not impactful, advertisers looking to grow Bing traffic may want to test their strategy around tail terms.
Leeches shouldn’t complain about the taste of blood.
There’s little to suggest a real turnaround in the works for the Search Alliance as the engines get set to release their Q2 earnings.
Maybe the big advertisers should get a boost.
An early read on the potential of the Google+ project.
Are there literary parallels in the government’s recent moves against Google?