For years, PPC marketers have avoided Broad Match keywords. They are notorious for matching irrelevant search terms alongside relevant ones. This imprecision stems from Close Variant matching, which includes matching a searcher’s intent, synonyms, plurals, or misspellings. While Broad Match...
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How Social Platforms Are Tackling Ad Fatigue
Ad fatigue is a modern-day phenomenon that social media marketers can’t afford to ignore. It occurs when users become disengaged or even irritated by seeing the same or too many ads, leading to lower engagement rates and diminishing returns on...
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The Ultimate Campaign Quality Assurance Checklist for 2024
Quality assurance is a large part of running PPC initiatives. When new campaigns are built for an account, it is of utmost importance to QA.
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Could Perplexity AI be about to up-end the AI search advertising game?
The advent of the AI era means the future of search is in flux. Not merely because the big names have rushed to market with substandard products, though they undeniably did. The Geminis of this world are merely the result...
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11 Tips for Effective Social Media Data Collection and Analysis
Social media is a core part of most brands’ marketing strategies today. With billions of active users across platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and more, social media offers endless opportunities to connect with customers. However, succeeding with social media requires...
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12 ways Google Ads uses Dark Patterns to manipulate your decision-making for *their* benefit, not yours
The goal is not to stoke fear or play to your emotions. Instead I simply seek to point out some of the different ways Google Ads may be using dark patterns to mislead you or impeding your ability to make...
Google Ads or Microsoft Ads?: Which Platform Wins for Your Advertising Goals?
When it comes to digital advertising, the opportunities are endless with Google Ads and Microsoft Ads. Both platforms offer exciting possibilities for reaching targeted audiences and driving conversions. Whether your goal is for broad exposure or niche targeting, each platform...
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A Handy Guide to Consent Management Platforms with Free Plans
While the Digital Markets Act’s implementation in March 2024 brought some changes, its impact on cookie compliance for most businesses has (so far) been minimal. The adjustments primarily affect less common features, such as GA4 audience sharing, which is helpful...
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Everything I’ve learned conducting 912 FB & LinkedIn ad account audits in 8 years
When I joined Hootsuite & AdEspresso as a Facebook and LinkedIn ads expert back in 2016, I already had about 6 years of experience running Facebook ads. My journey started before Facebook even had a conversion pixel! Despite that, I...
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How to Optimise Your PPC Landing Pages in 5 Steps
Your PPC landing pages could make or break your campaigns. That’s because even if you have the most perfectly created PPC campaign, if you are sending people to a badly designed landing page, which has terrible UX or poor quality...
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Apple Search Ads: Past, Present, and Future
Every good search marketer is always looking for alternative channels to get better results for clients. Most of us tend to stick to the top two or three options — Google Ads or Meta, or perhaps we’ll add LinkedIn or...
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Low, Medium, High: Decoding Google Shopping Priority Settings
Google shopping priority settings (Low, Medium, High) determine how Google selects which Shopping campaign to use when the same product appears in more than one campaign. This feature is crucial for advertisers managing multiple campaigns targeting the same products but...
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