Monthly Archives: January 2012

What’s new with Sitemaps

Sitemaps are a way to tell Google about pages on your site. Webmaster Tools’ Sitemaps feature gives you feedback on your submitted Sitemaps, such as how many Sitemap URLs have been indexed, or whether your Sitemaps have any errors. Recently, … Continue reading

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SEO Pricing: 600+ Agencies Share Costs of Services & Pricing Models

AYTM Near the end of December 2011, we ran a survey on this blog asking consultants and agencies of all sizes and geographies to contribute their pricing models and cost structures. I’m pleased to share the results of that survey in the … Continue reading

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Real-Time Insights Finder: A How-to Video

We recently launched our Real-Time Insight Finder on the new Think Insights site — centralizing access to all our insights tools across Google. We hope you’ve tried it out and are finding it useful. Check out our new video to … Continue reading

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Ads stuck under review?

You have created some new ads, submitted them to AdWords only to find that they have been given a status of "Under Review". Normally, ads are reviewed and approved rather quickly, however you can often find yourself in a situation … Continue reading

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Coming Soon: Ad Group Impression Share Metrics

Based on advertiser requests, we will soon offer ad group level impression share metrics for the Search and Display Networks. Once released, you can use ad group impression share data to, for example, better identify high performing ad groups that … Continue reading

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Create more Automated Rules and undo changes

We heard your feedback that you want Automated Rules to be even more flexible and useful, so we rolled out two improvements – increased rule limit to 100 and the ability to undo changes made by a rule. 1. Increased … Continue reading

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How to Use the Google AdWords Display Ad Builder

By Tom Demers This is the third post in our series on creating and analyzing Google AdWords ads. In the first two posts we walked through creating an AdWords text ad and creating an AdWords image ad. Today’s post will … Continue reading

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71 Good Ways to Build Links

  Love for Lists 1. Build a "101 list". These get Dugg all the time, and often become "authority documents". People can’t resist linking to these (hint, hint). 2. Create 10 easy tips to help you [insert topic here] articles. … Continue reading

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30 search quality highlights (with codenames!): December

Today we’re continuing our monthly series with details about many of the improvements we make to search. For the month of December, you’ll find a list of 30 search improvements, 9 of which we’ve blogged about previously. In addition, to … Continue reading

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Conversion Optimization: Go Beyond A/B Testing and MVT

A/B testing and MVT are a great way to help you drive more conversion on your website. A/B testing and MVT help you decide the best layout, headlines, images, message copy etc. that motivates the visitors to complete a transaction. … Continue reading

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