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8 major Google ranking signals in 2017
It’s no secret that Google’s ranking algorithm is made up of over 200 components, or “signals.” And while the list is...
Bing Ads retiring Campaign Planner in favor of Keyword Planner
Keyword Planner will take over at the end of July and offer most of the same...
AdWords Editor’s new custom rules let you quickly see what’s missing in your accounts
See what Google wants you to pay attention to and create your own warnings based on your business rules....
Meet NinjaCat ‘Shinobi,’ the all-in-one agency reporting and monitoring platform of the future
Reports are so 2000 and lame! Everything in our world — from software to phones, cars and TVs — is getting smarter, faster and...
Bing Ads Editor updates: Bulk edit & copy multiple campaigns, manage device & radius targets
The latest version of Bing Ads Editor features several new usability...
How AI is disrupting major industries
Advances in artificial intelligence tend to provoke polarizing reactions for most people. One, a dystopian anxiety where humans huddle in...
The perfect structure for managing profitable shopping ads
When you start advertising on a new platform, deciding how to structure things can be scary because there’s the risk that a bad decision now...
Google Attribution: What search marketers need to know
The new attribution solution announced last week offers more insights and functionality than currently available in AdWords or...
The silent revolution of search
Conventional wisdom within ad tech is that search is boring. In the display ecosystem, life is exciting: in the last decade alone, thousands of...
AI at the core. Humans at the helm.
Any marketer will tell you that applying AI to Marketing is a hot trend right now and has the potential to disrupt the industry. Just last week,...
Bing Ads Editor gets Review Extension support, better keyword import & more
New changes to Bing Ads Editor enhance the keyword import process, add support for Review Extensions and save advertisers a step when creating...
6 types of negative SEO to watch out for
The threat of negative SEO is remote but daunting. How easy is it to for a competitor to ruin your rankings, and how do you protect your site?...
The 8 time- & money-saving SEO tools I pay for (& 17 more I use for free)
With all of the tools available in the SEO space, it's tough to know the best software to apply to various use cases. Contributor Tom Demers...
Bing Ads Editor now supports Enhanced CPC, exports to create expanded text ads
Version 11.9 is now...
What is brand marketing?
There is a lot of confusion around brand. It’s one of those words widely used but not widely understood. Is it just a logo, a color palette...
Bing Ads Editor for Mac is now available to everyone
The highly requested desktop tool is now out of...
A review of free PPC reporting solutions from Google
Columnist Frederick Vallaeys tried out Data Studio to see where it shines and where it might fall short for search...
Chrome’s DevTools for SEO: 10 ways to use these browser features for your SEO audits
If you're conducting an SEO audit, you should probably be using DevTools in Google Chrome. Columnist Aleyda Solis shares 10 ways to use these...
Local SEO is about so much more than tools
Tools can help us do our jobs more efficiently, but columnist Greg Gifford reminds us that they aren't meant to do our jobs for us....
How and why the SEO tools industry should develop technical standards
Could SEO benefit from a collaborative effort to establish industry standards for SEO software? Contributor Michael King discusses the value...