Top 10 PPC expert columns of 2025 on Search Engine Land
PPC vibe coding, CPC inflation, critical PPC tactics, and more! These 10 PPC columns got the most pageviews on Search Engine Land in 2025.
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Top 10 2025 PPC predictions and trends
These are some of the most important PPC trends, changes, opportunities and challenges you need to be ready for in 2025.
This day in search marketing history: March 23
March 2022 product reviews update launches, plus: PPC salaries, Google Panda 3.4, Yahoo Search Direct and more.
This day in search marketing history: March 21
No more rel=next/prev support on Google, plus: CTR patent, neural matching versus RankBrain, Google wins KinderStart case and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 23
Google penalizes Natural News, plus: Google AdSense separates YouTube earnings, BrightEdge acquires Oncrawl, florist war on AdWords and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 22
Google page experience update for desktop rolls out, plus: Google’s Pirate Update impact, Google Shopping experience scorecard and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 20
Google stops supporting meta news keywords tag, plus: Google Ads tweaks mobile speed score algorithm, Voluntary Code of Practice and more
This day in search marketing history: January 26
LinkedIn Ads launches, plus: holiday retail insights, crappy results, Google Panda 3.2, sitemap testing, DuckDuckGo and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 25
Google defuses miserable failure, plus: Topics API replaces FloC, value-based bidding, average search ranking position and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 22
Google deduplicates featured snippets, plus: Facebook and Twitter signals, blacklisting domains, Wikipedia nofollows links and more.
The 2018 Search Engine Land Award winners: The full roster of this year’s search rock stars & superheroes
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SearchCap: Google Search Console beta live, PPC tips & SEO tasks
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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Beat high-cost paid search clicks by sweating the detailsOct 3, 2017 by Pauline Jakober Paid search can be difficult in competitive industries where CPCs are higher than average, but columnist Pauline […]
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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google is rolling out changes to AdWords Ad Rank thresholds: What you need to knowMay 15, 2017 by Ginny Marvin Bids can carry more weight in Ad Rank thresholds based on […]
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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: [Reminder] Webinar — National Brands & Local Search: Use Insights to Drive Actions Apr 17, 2017 by Digital Marketing Depot With nearly one third of all mobile searches now related to […]
SearchCap: DMOZ officially closes, Google dilutes Exact Match in AdWords & more
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SearchCap: Google & Bing pirate agreement, local SEO & PPC tips
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google says no algorithm changes in new deal to demote pirated content in UK search resultsFeb 20, 2017 by Barry Schwartz Google and Microsoft Bing agree to reduce pirated content from […]
SearchCap: Happy New Year’s, Santa tracker & Google’s new recipe results
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: A year in review: Search Engine Land’s top 10 columns of 2016Dec 30, 2016 by Jessica Thompson Which topics drew the most attention within the search industry this year? From infographics […]
SearchCap: Bing local search updates, digital assistants & PPC performance
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing local search update highlights business holiday hours in local listings Nov 28, 2016 by Amy Gesenhues Local listings display accurate holiday hours in real time. SEO without SERPs is here […]
SearchCap: SEMPO survey, HTTPS & Halloween
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Take the State of Search Survey from SEMPO & Search Engine LandOct 31, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Take the SEMPO survey and win access to SMX West and other excellent SEM-related […]
SearchCap: Offline call data, AdWords budget creep & AMP fire hose
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Allstate: offline call data improved SEM performance and the customer experienceOct 3, 2016 by Greg Sterling Company generated increase in quality calls and lowered customer acquisition costs. 3 mysterious and scary […]
SearchCap: Google Penguin recoveries, voice enabled maps & Landy Awards
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google says Penguin recoveries have started to roll out nowSep 28, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Have you been waiting two or more years to recover from your Penguin penalty? Google said […]
SearchCap: Google local pack ad, expanded AdWords ads & more
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: First appearance of ads in Local Pack found in UK mobile search resultAug 7, 2016 by Greg Sterling The configuration showed three organic listings with one ad at the top. Expanded […]
SearchCap: Google percentage ratings, PPC & Asia
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SearchCap: Apple news, successful PPC managers & technical SEO
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Apple brings Siri to Mac, new exposure for non-Google search engines Jun 13, 2016 by Danny Sullivan Soon, you will finally be able to search the web from your Mac desktop […]
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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 10 big changes with search engines over my 20 years of covering them Apr 17, 2016 by Danny Sullivan Search Engine Land founding editor Danny Sullivan looks at how search has […]
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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Ads testing Social Extensions: Link search ads to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr Mar 18, 2016 by Ginny Marvin The new ad extension is in beta in the US. Why costs […]
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SearchCap: PPC Mistakes & Fixing Old Links
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