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Paid Search & Analytics Tips & Takeaways | SMX London 2012

Yesterday at SMX London was full of information and handy tips on Paid Search and Analytics. There were four sessions: Winning The Click: Creating Great Paid Search Ads – giving …

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Top Takeaways from the Search Firestarters Event on Attribution

Last Thursday was the first Search Firestarters event, hosted by Google and Only Dead Fish – and we were lucky enough to get an invitation. Here are our top takeaways! …

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Near Miss or Near Perfect? New Match Behaviour Coming to Google

Google announced new matching behaviour just over a week ago, nicknamed ‘near exact and phrase’: exact keywords will match misspellings and ‘close variants’, and phrase keywords will cover searches containing …

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Glenn Jones on Microformats and SEO – BrightonSEO

Continuing our coverage of April’s BrightonSEO, here’s a write-up of ‘Microformats and SEO’: a talk given by Glenn Jones, a founder and director of Madgex. His slides are available here. …

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AdWords Automation Advice: Advantages and Annoyances

Full-blown bid automation tools are available, but they can cost too much for many businesses. But there are forms of automation available for free in AdWords. These could save you …

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What’s Going On with the Google Display Network?

Google keeps making updates to the Display Network – so what’s going on? Display Network Tab The main change is that AdWords is collecting Display targeting options under one new …

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Excel Hints for PPC

Excel is one of the best tools for PPC. Downloading your data into Excel gives much more scope for analysis and complex change than using a browser interface or AdWords …

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What Could Google’s New Privacy Policy Mean for PPC?

Earlier in the week Google announced changes to its privacy policies. The main changes are that: Now nearly all Google products are covered by one privacy policy. Information you give …

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How Is adCenter Different to AdWords?

So you’re advertising on Google, but you want to branch out to Bing? There’s a new audience for you there, with less competition and less cost! Microsoft adCenter is in …

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Conversion Conference London: 65 More Takeaways

Read the First 58 Takeaways from Conversion Conference London? Here are the next 65, from the afternoon of the first day. Confessions of a Conversion Rate Optimiser The afternoon kicked …

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