How We Identify Toxic Links, for Penalties or for Hygiene
Recently we had a client inquire about whether they should be disavowing links on a routine basis, just sort of a “good hygiene” type thing. Resulting from that we took a look back into this aspect of the industry that we haven’t paid much attention to for awhile. It seems like much of the advice […]
Two Academic Papers You Should Read ASAP If You’re Worried About AI and its Impact on SEO
We’ve been using text generation tools to generate thought-starting content for clients articles for the last four years, and two years ago these sorts of tools managed to hit roughly the 6th grade level. This past November ChatGPT clearly hit the 10th grade level. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that if these […]
Configure All-in-One SEO Properly
All-in-One SEO is a WordPress plugin that has been around *forever*. We used to use it back in the day before Yoast got big (in fact, we can remember when it had dashes in its name ;-). Now that Joost retired and sold Yoast to someone else , our expectation is that the product likely […]
Freelance Google Ads Managers – Where To Find Google Ads Management Services
If you don’t have the time or knowledge to manage your own AdWords campaigns, it’s time to ring for help. You have two options; first, you can hire an SEM agency, which has the advantage of bringing multiple people with different specialties to bear on the account – an account manager, someone who handles tracking […]
Google Ads Management Contracts – What Should They Cover?
Having negotiated, and signed, numerous Google Ads management contracts with clients over the years, I do have substantial business experience in this area; that said, I am not a lawyer, and you should run any contract language by one to make sure that whatever you are doing is appropriate for your business. That all said, […]
Google Ads Management Pricing Models and Fees – What’s Typical?
Online marketing agencies are similar in many ways to more traditional advertising agencies, but there are four AdWords management pricing models they use: – Percent of Spend – Flat Fee – Hourly Rate – Performance Deals Percent of Spend AdWords Management Pricing Model For monthly media spends of $20,000 or more (let’s say for instance […]
Google Ads Placement Exclusions for Mobile Traffic
Recently, Google Ads had some changes that make it more difficult to exclude mobile traffic. Many advertisers, particularly B-to-B ones, prefer to completely exclude mobile traffic for performance purposes. Teenagers playing video games for instance may not be the best target for enterprise software; and if your call to action involves viewing a white paper […]
How to Bulk Upload Structured Snippets into Google Ads
How to Bulk Upload Structured Snippets into Google Ads / Google Adwords Google Ads has various “extensions” you can associate with ads, at the Ad Group or Campaign level. These are essentially additional elements that show below your ad. Callout extensions can be thought of as bullet items; sitelinks are like callouts except clickable links. […]
Why is my Google Ads Campaign Getting Zero Impressions? Troubleshooting AdWords Campaigns with Zero Impressions
Why is my Google Ads Campaign Getting Zero Impressions? How to Troubleshoot. Launching a campaign in Google Ads can be exciting in small ways – you can’t wait to see what kind of searches you’re pulling in, resulting from all that hard work in organizing the campaign. Sometimes though, you will launch a campaign or […]
An Un-hole-y Search Marketing Lesson from World War II
Today we have a cautionary tale for you about the Statistical Research Group, a group of scientists based out of Columbia University during World War II. This group did research for the Military, including work on the fuse for the atomic bomb, optimal amounts of explosives in shells, and aircraft survivability. Members included top […]