Thursday, 16 Jan 2025
Author: ppcguru

Even as more people shop online, searches for ‘available near me’ up over 100% vs. last year

Google’s Reena Nadkarni explains what retailers can do to drive local sales. Despite new state lockdowns and significant e-commerce growth over Black Friday weekend, large numbers of consumers continue to shop offline. Beyond this, local shopping remains critical for most small businesses (SMBs), many of whom may not survive if they don’t make their Q4 sales numbers. Google, Facebook, […]

Twitter adds keyword search to Direct Messages

Good news for brands and businesses who use Twitter for customer service: you can now find DMs by searching for keywords. Twitter announced that is giving users a long-requested feature – the ability to search your direct message (DM) inbox by keyword. The search feature is rolling out now to all Twitter users (web and […]

Google updates advanced location options for Performance Max campaigns

Advertisers will be able to exclude specific locations for campaigns with a Google Merchant Center feed only. For Performance Max campaigns with a Google Merchant Center feed, you’ll now see advanced location options for targeting and exclusions. Entrepreneur and ad agency owner Kasim Aslam first noticed the new feature yesterday. Google confirmed it. “In campaign settings […]

Google Merchant Center auto-tagging now supported on all shopping experiences

Google now supports auto-tagging within Google Merchant Center for all free listings and free local listings experiences across Google Search and properties. Previously, when Google announced support for auto-tagging on free listings earlier this year, it was just for the Google Shopping tab. The announcement. Here’s what Google posted: “You can now use auto-tagging to view conversions for […]

The top 5 customer journeys to keep them connected and coming back

In this webinar, learn how to reach your customers with captivating, personalized messaging. It’s clear that customers are craving a personal connection. It’s up to marketers to identify the moments that define the customer journey and use them to power those one-to-one relationships. Digital channels like mobile devices bridge the gap between the online and […]

Bing Ads now shows remarketing bid adjustment suggestions based on CPA data

Suggestions are available in the Opportunities tab. Bing Ads has added suggestions for remarketing bid adjustments to the Opportunities Tab in the web interface. The suggestions are based on historical ad performance. If remarketing lists are driving lower CPA (cost per acquisition) than the average campaign, Bing Ads will suggest a higher bid adjustment and show an […]

Google to move the Structured Data testing tool to schema.org

After the SEO backlash around Google announcing it would deprecate the tool, Google decided to migrate it instead. In July, Google announced it would deprecate the Structured Data testing tool after it released the Rich Results Test tool out of beta. The SEO community was not happy with the news and Google listened and decided to keep the tool but move […]

Twitter Search Lets You Once Again Find Old Tweets

For ages now, Twitter has only allowed you to search for tweets back for about a week. Looking for a tweet older than that? You were out of luck, at least using Twitter itself. But now, that’s changing. In a post today, Twitter says that some older tweets are now going to be available. How […]

We’re turning off AMP pages at Search Engine Land

We’ve seen a big drop in traffic to AMP pages, suggesting that the inclusion of non-AMP pages in Top Stories is taking a toll. “Gasp! Think of the traffic!”  That’s a pretty accurate account of the more than two dozen conversations we’ve had about Search Engine Land’s support of Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages in the […]