Search Marketing: General
Should you keep your best content on your site or send it away?
Contributor Julie Joyce looks at the pros and cons of keeping content on your site versus sending it...
5 New Year’s resolutions for your PPC campaigns
Contributor Mona Elesseily shares her insights on fine-tuning your PPC campaigns for 2018 and...
Side by side: Comparing two performance marketing tools/agencies
Columnist Andreas Reiffen shares his method for testing two different AdWords tools/agencies -- a process which could also be applied to test...
How AI can uncover new insights and drive SEO performance
Columnist Jim Yu believes that by incorporating the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning, search marketers can move beyond...
15 PPC pro tips for writing text ads
Want to know how to write great paid search ads? Columnist Pauline Jakober shares some tips from her years of experience writing PPC ad...
The technology behind AI in PPC
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for a long time, so why are we only just now exploring its applications for PPC? Columnist...
Understanding AdWords keyword match types for manufacturers
With much of AdWords' help documentation geared towards retailers, it can be confusing for manufacturers to figure out how best to utilize the...
How to reverse-engineer your online advertising strategy
In PPC, we often talk about eye-catching ad copy -- but columnist Jacob Baadsgaard suggests that, rather than focusing on different ways to...
A year in review: Search Engine Land’s top 10 columns of 2017
We conclude our year-in-review series by calling out our most popular columns of 2017, which covered subjects ranging from technical SEO tips to...
PPC insights: Our top SEM columns of 2017
2017 marked yet another eventful year for the SEM industry, and there was no shortage of great content to guide readers through it. See which...
6 ways ad agencies can thrive in an AI-first world
Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) will change the way search marketers do business. In the latest article in his multipart...
Supercharge your email marketing with Google AdWords
Columnist Todd Saunders explains how to use AdWords Customer Match to nurture your email marketing leads at various stages in the...
The vicious cycle of ROAS targets is killing your business
While many companies focus on return on ad spend (ROAS) as their primary KPI for search, columnist Andreas Reiffen believes that ROAS targets...
Which PPC metrics matter? Lessons from half a million keywords
Columnist Jacob Baadsgaard shares insights from a study looking into how various paid search metrics correlate with return on investment...
Omnichannel shoppers collide with Black Friday and Cyber Monday, setting new records
Columnist Christi Olson shares consumer and search data from the recent holiday weekend -- and provides tips for how to use search to boost your...
PPC agencies will play these 4 roles when automation takes over
Many in the SEM world are concerned that artificial intelligence and machine learning will make their jobs obsolete -- but columnist Frederick...
Auction Insights 3: The final script
Columnist Daniel Gilbert shares his updated Auction Insights script, which helps you keep track of what your competitors are doing....
How your website redesign can sabotage your paid search efforts
Relaunching a website can be very exciting for a business, but columnist Pauline Jakober warns that without careful planning, a redesign can...
2-step methodology for dealing with PPC performance downturns
What happens when your paid search campaigns are experiencing a sudden and unexpected performance drop? Columnist Jeff Baum shows how to handle...
Google’s all-new, quite counterintuitive guide to ad testing
The days of rigid A/B testing are over. Columnist and Googler Matt Lawson talks about how to test ads in the age of optimized ad...
