It is a part of human tendency to overreact when you're on the other side of winning. Marketing research, surveys and investigations are quite handy when it comes to finding the real reason behind the downfall of a company. But they rarely present the real story. What these researches, surveys and investigations do not reveal is the misuse and pursuit…
Last month, Twitter surprised everyone by re-categorizing itself from a social networking entity to a news App on iOS platform. Surprised! Don't be. This month more surprises await the users as Twitter's planning to serve them ads even when they are logged-out. With brands happy to pay similar amount of money for generating ad clicks from both logged-in and logged-out…
Google recently expanded its AdWords space by sporting longer text ad format. The newly expanded Google AdWords Text Ad was first spotted by Ginny Marvin of Search Engine Land. In its latest endeavor, Google's testing an expanded Google AdWords Text Ad that features two lines containing the description, which now accommodates 80 characters; giving users 47% more free space. Here's…
In an open letter to shareholders, Google's CEO Sundar Pichai stressed on the role of futuristic technology in this information-driven world. Talking about technology, Google has always held it's search capabilities at the very core of its existence, but moving ahead the company has set some futuristic technology based goals to give everyone easy access to information. As part of…
Based on the survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, IAB's Internet Advertising arm recently released a comprehensive 2015 digital-ad-revenue report for the US market. Going by the year over year analysis, the online ad spend in 2015, which grew over 20% compared to that of 2014, was worth approximately $60 billion. Here's the 2015 breakdown by ad category: The paid search volume…
Google recently revamped its policy guidelines by getting rid of the old stereotype and confusing formulas, when it comes to displaying ad extensions. The introduction of the new ad policy means the impact of ad pattern in the ad rank formula will no longer be the same. As a result, Google's now well equipped to provide an estimate of your…
Great news for businesses, especially the SMEs! They no longer need to fear Google's upcoming Panda/Penguin updates. In case your online presence was hurt badly because of Google's past algorithmic updates, such as Penguin/Panda updates, then the good news is that other algorithm updates can help enhance the search ranking of your site. So, if you are left scratching your…
It's now time to welcome the Bot Store! If you don't believe it, just read on... The future of all messenger apps and websites is in for a change. Kik, which has for years been a supporter of bots, is officially launching it's first bot messenger app. The company believes it will play an important role not only in shaping…
It was February 24, 2016 when Google's much awaited AMP project went live for specific mobile searches. Post that, businesses, especially those without a mobile-friendly presence were a bit concerned whether Google was going to make it a major ranking factor to get ahead in searches. Google then surprised advertisers by rolling out AMP enabled Google Search Analytics reports which…
Google's now offering AdWords support to advertisers by auto-recommending bids as an assistance to set up dynamic categories in their Ad Search (DSA) campaigns. This can be a bit of worrying piece of information for businesses, since they don't want Google to overlook or suggest changes in their DSA campaigns. But businesses don't need to worry as they can easily…