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

Digital Marketing June 10, 2021

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

Best Practices May 20, 2021

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]

Digital Marketing April 26, 2021

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

Digital Marketing April 22, 2021

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

Digital Marketing April 13, 2021

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… VIDEO TRANSCRIPT […]

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Bing introduces new automotive ads

PPC Advertising April 1, 2021

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

Digital Marketing April 1, 2021

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

Google Updates March 5, 2021

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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Suds and Search 52 | Ginny Marvin, Google Ads Product Liaison

PPC Advertising March 4, 2021
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Google Rolls Out New Way to Convert on the SERP with Lead Form Ad Extensions

PPC Advertising February 12, 2021

Everyday, searchers turn to Google for a variety of reasons. Sometimes people are looking to learn something brand new, sometimes they’re looking to compare their options, and other times they’re ready to act. While Google search is a great tool for all these kinds of searchers, most advertisers want to reach people most ready to […]

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Google Ads Announces the End of Broad Modified Match & Changes to Phrase Match Keywords

Google Updates February 5, 2021

For all of us, 2020 was a year of change, disorder, and frustration. Even in Google Ads, the pandemic changed what we search for, where we search, and how we search online – and every PPC expert had to adjust to the new normal on and off the SERP. Entering 2021, we were all hoping […]

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Suds and Search 46 | Ned Poulter, Founder and CEO of Pole Star Digital

Digital Marketing January 21, 2021

Also available as a Podcast: My guest on this episode of Suds & Search is the brilliant and engaging Ned Poulter. Ned is the Founder & CEO of Pole Star Digital. He has a wide breadth of digital marketing knowledge but has a well-earned reputation as one of the leading experts in the world on […]

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