Quality Score is a way that Google Ads quantifies ad relevancy and effectiveness. As advertisers, we don’t control it—but we can create strategies to improve it. Within Google Ads, every keyword is subject to Google’s Quality Score metric, which impacts your cost and your ad’s ability to display. Enhance your performance and optimize your cost […]
Facebook is launching a new “People Talking About This” metric for fan pages this week, designed to show conversations happening about a brand or page owner across the web. It’s part of an upgraded Page Insights tool. Also released is a new Page Insights API tool. Facebook emailed us the information about the launches tonight, […]
As technology changes so does the way we interact with each other. Before smartphones and ordering online, popping into a shop to search for a particular item or calling around to find it before heading out were both common things to do. The internet and later smartphones changed all that. Now we have access to […]
How to optimize the work you’ve been doing year-round and what to avoid ahead of the most profitable time of the year. Before the holiday shopping season approaches, online retailers should be readying and refreshing content, category and product pages to maximize search visibility as interest surges, and auditing their sites to ensure a smooth […]
Bing added a new feature to test your internet speeds. It might just work for you — Give it a try. Some users are seeing a new feature on Bing, a feature that lets you test how fast your internet connect speed is. All you have to do is go to Bing and search for […]
Track and optimize to custom metrics tailored to your goals at all levels of your campaigns. Custom columns in AdWords can help marketers get more detailed insights into how their campaigns are performing based on non-standard metric targets. Now, advertisers can create and track custom metrics at the keyword and ad levels in addition to […]
“We are firing on all cylinders right now even though it’s a very dynamic environment,” says Box CEO Aaron Levie. “One of the great ironies probably that we’ll look back on is that the industry that is focused on selling digital technology spent so much time in the physical world trying to sell that technology. […]
Amazon has entered the super hot podcasting arena, adding podcasts to their Amazon Music platform. All podcasts will, of course, be able to be accessed via Alexa, through its voice-activated Echo speakers, and are free to Amazon Prime members. Check the podcasts out here: Amazon Podcasts “Our customers’ listening habits are constantly evolving, and we […]
The four distinct types of indexing problems and how to identify them. The game has changed. On average, 15-20% of your URLs are not indexed by Google. This is on top of partial indexing issues for pages that are actually indexed. Partial indexing is when your URL is indexed by Google but some of the […]
As we reported a few months ago, Twitter has rolled out the “activities tab” for web users. This tab allows Twitter to operate more like a classic social network as you can keep tabs on your friends… pun intended. Here’s a look at how the activitiy tab looks: This tab shows items favorited by those you […]