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Example email to a hacked site Beyond clear-cut blackhat webspam, the second-biggest category of spam that Google deals with is hacked sites. The most common reaction we hear from webmasters is “The problem is with the Google search. There is nothing wrong with our website.” That’s a real quote from an email one site owner recently sent us. Sadly, it turns [...]

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Google Testing Display URLs At The Side Of Organic Results Another test we spotted this morning, this time for the organic results in Google.co.uk. The display URLs have been moved up from below the description snippet and moved to the side just underneath the title of the organic result. Screenshot as below for the ‘car insurance’ SERPs - I personally think this makes the organic [...]

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Adwords Ads Background Back To Yellow? Google has been playing with Adwords ad background colours again. We are now seeing a pale yellow colour in the UK SERPs, as per the screenshot below - I first noticed this about a week ago while running some queries in the US and the tests still don’t seem to be completely widespread just yet. [...]

Announcing The Screaming Frog SEO Spider Tool As you might have noticed, I haven’t blogged here since August. Well, that was for a very good reason. This year I founded a new search marketing agency called Screaming Frog and have been working on a new onsite SEO tool, which has prompted this post. It has been a little while in development, but [...]

Google Search Query Reports: Beware Other Unique Queries! Ever since Google launched the Search Query Report in AdWords, advertisers have been using the data to refine and evaluate their current keyword lists, identifying any potential new keywords that they could add into their accounts. As those of us who use these reports know all too well, when looking at these reports you do [...]

Google Testing New Ad Format For Comparison Ads Google started testing Adwords comparison ads last year and subsequently rolled out credit card comparison adverts in the UK during February this year. Typically the adverts have been within the usual top sponsored ad positions in the usual Adwords format at the expense of an advertiser. But check out this test I spotted earlier today [...]

Google Testing Different Colour Backgrounds For Adwords Ads Over the past couple of weeks Google have been testing new background colours for their Adwords ads again. Google changed from their usual blue background to a yellow back in 2007 which is what we see predominantly today in the SERPs. Now it looks like testing time again, I am connecting to a DC with [...]

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Working with an overall CPA target: how to calculate your non-branded target This is a guest post by Wijnand Meijer, a Paid Search Strategist at Netsociety, an online media agency based in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and Brussels (Belgium). He created his first AdWords campaigns in 2006 and is currently helping advertisers and coworkers alike to get their Paid Search to the next level.   If you?re managing [...]Working with an overall CPA target: how to calculate your non-branded target is a post from: Certified Knowledge

What your CEO Needs to Know about Paid Search: Creating a Narrative I?ve lost a lot of clients in the past. Most of the time, this ties back to the fact that we?re not typically dealing directly with decision-makers on a day-to-day basis. And although (as an agency) we?d like to think that delivering great numbers is more than enough to keep our clients happy at all [...]What your CEO Needs to Know about Paid Search: Creating a Narrative is a post from: Certified Knowledge

Listen to Mike Blumenthal Talk Local Marketing Mike Blumenthal is a Google Places Gourmand. He has been around the local advertising space for several years and maintains a wonderful blog on local marketing. I had known about Mike for several years and had even exchanged a few emails with him; but it wasn?t until last month when we were both in Germany [...]Listen to Mike Blumenthal Talk Local Marketing is a post from: Certified Knowledge

Google Launches Near Match ? Should You Use It? Google just announced they are taking near match out of beta and rolling it out to everyone. What this does is match you to close variations of search queries. It?s pretty similar to modified broad match, only it works for phrase and exact match. What Near Match Does For instance, if you are advertising on [...]Google Launches Near Match – Should You Use It? is a post from: Certified Knowledge