Category: Google

16 reasons why your page isn’t ranking on Google

16 reasons why your page isn’t ranking on Google

Struggling to rank on Google? Dive into 16 possible reasons why your page isn’t making the cut and how to address them systematically. It’s frustrating. You put time, energy and a lot of hope into a webpage. But it just won’t rank. Your competitors’ pages are ranking well, even though (subjectively) they’re worse. Yours deserves […]

Un-silo your PPC campaigns: 4 tactics for more cohesive marketing

Un-silo your PPC campaigns: 4 tactics for more cohesive marketing

Align your PPC initiatives with broader marketing strategies with these four tactics for harmonizing campaigns across channels. It’s rare to find businesses executing a cohesive strategy across all digital marketing channels. This lack of coordination is understandable, as even senior strategists often struggle to align their requests with other channels. So, if you’re a PPC […]

Why now is the most important time for nonprofit advertising

Why now is the most important time for nonprofit advertising

Maximize year-end donations for your non-profit by laying the groundwork early with steady advertising budgets and ongoing testing. Many nonprofits enjoy a spike in donations at the end of the year. And so, they focus their digital marketing programs on November and December. But here’s a secret: If you want to pull in donations at […]

WalkerOS: A data collection alternative to gtag.js

WalkerOS: A data collection alternative to gtag.js

Should you replace Google’s gtag.js with an open source alternative like walkerOS? Explore the use cases, benefits and potential drawbacks. Google’s popular gtag.js library makes collecting data for Google Analytics 4 and Google Ads straightforward. However, it also ties you into Google’s ecosystem. You lose control and flexibility when tracking data. Enter walkerOS. This new open-source tracking […]

Google Ads offering businesses free consultations through Gmail pop-ups

Google Ads offering businesses free consultations through Gmail pop-ups

Advertisers are concerned that the pop-up notifications within Gmail could cause confusion among their clients. Google Ads is targeting businesses within their Gmail accounts, offering them free consultations. Notably, the promotion is delivered through pop-up notifications rather than emails, making the message look less like an ad, possibly increasing the chances of conversions. Why we […]

SEO strategy: 3 steps to strategic SEO planning

SEO strategy: 3 steps to strategic SEO planning

A simple three-step process for creating an SEO strategy for 2024. Learn strategic approaches to stand out from the crowd and rank highly. Standing out in search is not easy. The search environment is hyper-competitive. It is possible to publish excellent content and still see it fail to rank. Competition is everywhere in search. You […]

Featured snippets disappear from the Google search results

Featured snippets disappear from the Google search results

Did Google intentionally remove the featured snippets or is this a new bug? Google no longer shows featured snippets within the Google search results as of this morning. It is unclear if this as intentional or if Google has another bug serving or rending a search feature. We can confirm that as of around 7 am ET […]

Pinterest announces major ad partnership with Google

Pinterest announces major ad partnership with Google

The collaboration makes Google the second third-party ad partner for Pinterest, following its multi-year collaboration with Amazon. Pinterest announced a new ad partnership with Google designed to boost its ad revenue. This marks Google as the second third-party ad partner for Pinterest, following its multi-year collaboration with Amazon that was unveiled last year. Why we care. This […]

Google Search officially retires cache link

Google Search officially retires cache link

Google might add links to the Wayback Machine in place of the cache link. Google officially removed the cache link from the Google Search results snippets last week and Google confirmed that it will remove the cache functionality completely in the near future. Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison told us that Google has “decided to […]

Google TV: What you need to know about CTV buying in Google Ads

Google TV: What you need to know about CTV buying in Google Ads

New Google TV ad placement in Google Ads unlocks CTV buying. Get an overview of the implications, pros and cons, and optimization strategies. Google Ads recently introduced the ability to buy Google TV inventory programmatically. This new connected TV (CTV) placement allows advertisers to expand their video advertising to the living room alongside existing options […]