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Top 10 New Google Ads Features Of 2018
In 2018 we've continued to see an onslaught of new features and changes in Google Ads. In today's article, I'm going to run through the new features that are most important for small business advertisers. Use these tools to make your campaigns more profitable and easier to manage. #10 - Notes A seemingly simple feature, "Notes" makes Google Ads change management [...]
5 Easy Ways to Improve Paid Search Lead Quality
Getting a low-quality lead is often worse than getting no lead at all. Having long conversions with go-no-where prospects does nothing but eat up time. And, when you get a lot of low-quality leads, you might be optimizing your campaigns for the wrong conversions. But how do you improve lead-quality without scaring away the juicy prospects? That's what I'm going [...]
Boost Organic Rankings and CTRs With Reviews
Now more than ever before, Google is looking to social proof (reviews) as a component of E-A-T (Expertise, Authority, and Trustworthiness). Today I'll cover everything you need to know about reviews and how to get user ratings (stars) displayed in your organic results. How can reviews help? First, Google is watching! Google monitors reviews that are external to your site [...]
10-Steps To Reduce Google Ads Spend And Lower CPA
Is your mandate to reduce spending on Google Ads and lower CPA down to a more affordable level? Here are the 10-steps you can take today to immediately and dramatically reduce your spending and CPA. These are provided in order of greatest to least impact. 1. Stop Low Performing Campaigns Depending on how much you wish to reduce ad spend, [...]
How To Implement Extra Headlines/Descriptions in Expanded Text Ads
Google surprised us this month when they suddenly added "optional" extra headline and description fields to Expanded Text Ads (ETAs). While Google had been Beta testing this feature for over a year, we expected more fanfare and buildup. This has obviously created a lot of unexpected work for advertisers, and more so for agencies. In addition, the simultaneous launch of [...]
How To Implement Google’s Responsive Search Ads
With another Google Marketing Next event in the books, we'll now play catch up with the various new and announced features coming to Google Ads (yep new name too). By far, the feature I expect to be most widely implemented is the new Responsive Search Ads (RSAs). As a Premier Partner agency, we've had access to RSAs for a while [...]