Suds and Search 72 | John Lee, Head of Evangelism at Microsoft Advertising

Also available as a Podcast: My guest on this episode of Suds & Search is John Lee, Head of Evangelism at Microsoft Advertising. John is an in-demand speaker, blogger, and content creator on topics related to paid search and paid social. A shortlist of the places you might have heard John present includes Heroconf, State

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Suds and Search 71 | Purna Virji, Senior Content Marketing Evangelist for LinkedIn

Also available as a Podcast: My guest on this week’s episode of Suds and Search is Purna Virji, Senior Content Marketing Evangelist for LinkedIn. Purna is one of the most popular and recognizable personalities in paid media. In 2019, Purna was awarded the U.S. Search Personality of the year. She is a mainstay on PPCHero’s

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Suds and Search 66 | Matt Umbro, Key Account Director at Brainlabs

My guest on this week’s episode of Suds & Search is Matt Umbro, Key Account Director at Brainlabs. Matt is a verteran PPC marketer and one of my favorite bloggers on topics related to paid search and paid social. You can read some of his work at Search Engine Journal, Practical Ecommerce, and PPCHero. Matt

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Google Ads introduces account Monthly Spend Limits

Google Ads has a lot of exciting new features, insights, and offers plenty of ROI to excite most marketers.  But of course, Google Ads has costs too and fewer marketers get that excited about planning out a budget, and historically Google hasn’t made that process any easier. Where most businesses plan their advertising budgets on

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How much does Google Ads cost? [2021 Data]

Search Engine Marketing is essential to every businesses’ success online. For those looking to get quality traffic to their site quickly, Google Ads is an attractive option for many. With Google Ads, you’ve a lot of options to control how much you pay per each click, what traffic you buy, and how much your Google

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Suds and Search 59 | Christi Olson, Global Media SEM Team Lead at Microsoft

Also available as a Podcast: My guest on this episode of Suds & Search is Christi Olson, Microsoft’s Global Media SEM Team Lead. Christi is one of the most popular and well-known PPC keynote speakers in the industry. You may have heard Christi present at UnGagged, Content Marketing World, HeroConf, all the different SMX events,

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Advertise your cars on Bing

In this week’s video, I talk about the new Automotive Ads from Bing. They’re a completely new ad type that allows dealers to advertise specific vehicles in Bing search results. Don’t think Bing is important enough? Watch the video to find out why the Bing Ad Network is much larger than you think…

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Bing introduces new automotive ads

Show the car – that’s the one rule of every car ad that you’ve ever seen on TV or in print. Whether that ad is from the giant OEM, the franchise dealership, or the independent shop down the street, none of your customers are ever going to buy their next car sight-unseen. While the cardinal

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Suds and Search 56 | Paula Keller French, Director of Sales and Marketing at Search Influence

Also available as a Podcast: My guest on this episode of Suds & Search is Paula Keller French, Director of Sales and Marketing at Search Influence, a digital marketing agency located in New Orleans. Paula started at Search Influence in 2009 on the then-9 person team. Today, the team at Search Influence has grown considerably

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Google announces plan to retire Target CPA and Target ROAS as unique bidding strategies

Manually optimizing hundreds or thousands of individual keyword bids and various bid adjustments in Google Ads can easily be a never-ending task. Although Google Ads bidding can be complex, most advertisers have a simple goal in mind for their ads – to get more traffic, to outrank their competitors, or the most conversions for their

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