It couldn't be easier to create a simple AdWords marketing plan. Unfortunately, all too often we get bogged down in trying to use estimation tools to create a "perfect" account, before any campaign ever goes live. Doing your homework and trying to come up with some basis for advertising costs…
New Bing Ads Call Extensions Features Bing Ads now offer call extensions with call tracking to all advertisers. You can find your call extensions by clicking on the ad extensions tab, then clicking call extensions: The documentation for Bing Ads call extensions is still virtually non-existent. However, many of the…
What You Need To Know About AdWords Phone Calls The AdWords phone calls column and received calls data for Google call forwarding call extensions has changed recently. Previously, any connected calls over 30 seconds were reported as received calls in the dimensions tab, and phone calls in the campaign and…
When Google first came out with DSA (Dynamic Search Ads) campaigns, the setup left much to be desired. Perhaps you, like me, initially thought that DSA campaigns was yet another example of "just because you can, doesn't mean it's worth the costs in time and effort". Fortunately for us, our…
Google announced automatic authorship attribution for WordPress sites (and a limited number of other beta platforms) today. This could be one of the biggest and best new things to come from Google since Call Metrics. However, it seems too good to be true. It has never been simple, or easy…
If you do not use the AdWords search query report on a daily basis, you don't know what you're missing. Literally, you have no idea. Remember, when it comes to AdWords unless you are using exact match only keywords, and opt out of matching to close variants in your campaign…
So, I finally found an example of enhanced sitelinks, and I'm kind of upset... You see, I have had enhanced sitelinks disapproved in other accounts, with no description of why. I did stumble across a line in one of the Google Docs that - "The link text for each link…
Have you been having problems lately accruing phone impressions for Google forwarding numbers call extensions? Worse yet, have you lost Google forwarding numbers phone impressions from adgroups which had previously accrued phone impressions, and generated phone calls? Let's look at a couple of examples. Here are some phone impression stats…
What is the difference between conversions 1 per click and many per click? Seems like a simple question right? So why can't you ever get a straight answer out of anyone who's supposed to "know"? The truth is that it all depends on circumstances. Often the "right" answers to AdWords…
Have you ever been lying in bed awake at night, unable to sleep because your mind is uncontrollably active, pondering the mysteries of the universe? Why are we here, are we alone, what is the meaning of life? Or, perhaps it's not the mysteries of the universe that occupy your…
