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[We see Google is pushing it's AI onto advertisers in the Google Ads platform. Examples include Smart Bidding, Smart Display and Shopping Campaigns, Responsive Search Ads and Close Variant matching. And the list goes on. />

[Andrea Cruz is a Digital Marketing Manager at KoMarketing, where she leads and executes demand generation programs for clients. Andrea is responsible for driving and implementing SEM, Social Media, ABM, and content syndication campaigns on platforms including Google AdWords, Bing Ads, Facebook, LinkedIn, and more./>

[LinkedIn Ads is one of the most difficult ad channels to get right because the clicks are expensive, so any mistake becomes an expensive one. What people miss is it's also the channel that closes the largest deals. They're the only agency worldwide that's a LinkedIn certified marketing partner. Their team of experts have managed over 300 LinkedIn Ads accounts, spent a cumulative $110M+ on LinkedIn, which includes 4 of LinkedIn's top 10 accounts. They make LinkedIn Ads rock and have the results to prove it./>

[Lisa Raehsler is a search engine marketing and pay-per-click (PPC) strategist, nationally recognized speaker, and columnist for industry leading publications. As the founder and principal strategist at Big Click Co., she helps companies and agencies of all sizes to integrate PPC advertising into online media programs for brand promotion, demand generation, and customer acquisition. Lisa has led hundreds of paid advertising accounts for search engines (Google AdWords and Bing Ads), mobile, display, retargeting, and social media ad campaigns. Her experience spans twenty years and includes working with national brands at agencies and at the enterprise level at Thomson Reuters. Lisa has spoken about PPC, mobile, retargeting and other online marketing topics at industry conferences, training events, podcasts, and webinars. Lisa shares her expertise as a columnist for several industry publications. She is a recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award for Bing Ads PPC. />

[MobileMonkey is bringing the power of chatbots — personalized, individual, scalable messaging — to every marketer, no coding needed. David is sold into the concept with the help of Virginia Nussey, the Director of Content Marketing at MobileMonkey. Virginia writes on the future of digital marketing automation via chatbot tutorials and guides. MobileMonkey makes it easy to build chatbots and execute marketing automation without writing a line of code. Marketers can do chat blasting, drip campaigns and list building in Messenger with powerful chatbot building tools. Digital agencies and marketers who care about performance and growth can join the conversation at https://mobilemonkey.com. />

[Frederick Vallaeys returns to PPC Rockstars to explain how Google Ads will continue to change at a breakneck pace and introduce changes that can make or break a PPC pro’s next few months. It’s essential to stay on top of what is announced by Google at their premier event for marketers. More context is here. />

[David Szetela discusses how Facebook advertising and search advertising are synergistic with Michelle Stinson-Ross, the Director of Marketing Operations for Apogee Results. Facebook recently decided to test Search Ads in selected industries in the US and Canada. Facebook first tried Sponsored Results back in 2012 but eventually shut down the product in 2013. They’ll be repurposed News Feed ads featuring a headline, image, copy text and a link in the static image or carousel format that can point users to external websites. Facebook declined to share screenshots as it says the exact design is still evolving. Facebook may expand search ads to more countries based on the test’s performance./>

[Frederick's new book Digital Marketing in an AI World: Futureproofing Your PPC Agency is now available. He is pricing the book at 99 cents for the week of 5/27 to ensure that anyone who is interested has a chance to pick up an inexpensive copy. Former Google AdWords evangelist Frederick Vallaeys talks to David Szetela about his new book titled Digital Marketing in an AI World: Futureproofing Your PPC Agency. This book talks about what AI and other digital marketing technology can and cannot do, how agency owners can reposition their business in the current environment, new skillsets to develop or look for in potential new hires, four essential roles digital marketing professionals will continue to play in the future and more./>

[David Szetela welcomes back Kirk Williams, the owner of ZATO, his Paid Search PPC micro-agency of experts. Kirk shares his thoughts on Single Keyword Ad Groups (SKAGs), which is an ad group that targets variations of a single keyword rather than following the AdWords setup guide and having 20 keywords in your ad group. They also talk about shopping campaigns and running Shopping Ads for clients and how Kirk has been wondering lately about whether you should use Smart Shopping campaigns. Kirk wrote recently, "Does it always negatively impact positioning? Surely not, but it’s certainly a part of the conversation that needs to take place. Unfortunately, Google removed our ability to have that conversation when they removed our ability to make any adjustments around ad placements in Smart Shopping. Just so I’m clear here, it’s not just that you can’t add negative keywords, or select/remove Channels right now in Smart Shopping (you can’t do either of those)./>

[PPC ads come in many shapes and sizes. They also change frequently, which means it’s nearly impossible to provide a truly comprehensive guide for every ad format available. David Szetela welcomes back Aaron Levy from Elite SEM to discuss the major PPC ad formats that are available across Google Ads. Most of the basic text and shopping formats are also available across Bing Ads. There’s an old adage that our CRO team likes to share. Companies spend $92 of every $100 to bring customers to their site, but only $1 to convert them. Seems off, doesn’t it? Landing page experience is one of the more under-optimized facets of search marketing. It doesn’t fit neatly into a budget, so it’s difficult to find resources. The average search marketer doesn’t have the skillset to design and build a landing page. Powerful development tools like Unbounce and Instapage exist to do the heavy lifting. But without the right starting point in mind, it’s akin to giving a 16-year-old a driving test in a Ferrari./>

[Average Position was one of the original metrics in Google Ads when they launched their search advertising product called AdWords. But as search advertising has evolved, what used to be a primary metric for making optimization decisions has lost its usefulness and so Google has announced that it will disappear later this year. Frederick (“Fred”) Vallaeys was one of the first 500 employees at Google where he spent 10 years building AdWords and teaching advertisers how to get the most out of it as the Google AdWords Evangelist. Today he is the Cofounder of Optmyzr, an AdWords tool company focused on unique data insights, One-Click Optimizations™, advanced reporting to make account management more efficient, and Enhanced Scripts™ for AdWords. />

[5 Common Pieces of Misinformation about Google Ads & Their Corrections with Brad Geddes, the Founder of AdAlysis, an automated PPC ad testing and quality score analysis platform, an official AdWords Seminar Leader, and author of Advanced Google AdWords. Google Ads is so complicated that it often leads to incorrect assumptions as to how certain things work. When one authority site writes about one of these features incorrectly, it is often considered true and the misinformation quickly spreads and many marketers end up with poor information. Whenever you see some truly terrible search terms in your account, it’s either a result of Google not understanding your exact match keywords properly or the usage of true broad match. The most understood usage of broad match is when you have search terms that are in two different languages at once. We see in many countries search terms that are in English and Arabic, German and English, etc. When a search term is in multiple languages, the best way to target them i

[Today David is joined by 33 Across founder Eric Wheeler. While the biggest players in the industry like Google, The Trade Desk and agency programmatic platforms like Xaxis scoop up the majority of the $50 billion now flowing through automated advertising trading platforms, specialist services have emerged to meet marketers’ needs for transparency and impact. The company name refers to the toughest crossword puzzles that can be solved if you decipher a large horizontal word in the middle of the puzzle. According to Wheeler, in many difficult puzzles these are often around 32 or 33 across. “33Across unlocks the puzzle of quality online advertising,” says Wheeler. />

[David Szetela talks about the Microsoft Audience Network with Frances Donegan-Ryan - Bing Ads Global Communications Manager and Learning Strategist - Client Experience Design & Delivery - Bing Ads at Microsoft. The Microsoft Audience Network combines powerful artificial intelligence and the Microsoft Graph digital marketing platforms to find your target audience. Built on the Bing Ads platform, the goal of the Microsoft Audience Network is to make it easier for advertisers to profile the interests of their customers, Microsoft says. As part of that effort, the platform combines the AI with information from LinkedIn, Bing, and other Microsoft services, to improve targeting. />

[David Szetela talks with Akvile DeFazio about getting your feet wet with Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest direct response advertising. Learn what considerations should be made before diving in (e.g. Facebook can create a catalog from a Google Merchant Center feed)? What kind of results can they expect(in standard KPIs) compared to search engine results? Any tips or hidden landmines and more. />

[Jon MacDonald is founder and President of The Good (https://thegood.com), a conversion rate optimization firm that helps brands convert more of their existing website traffic into buyers. The Good has unlocked results for some of the largest online brands including Adobe, Nike, Xerox, The Economist, and more. Jon regularly contributes content on conversion optimization to publications like Entrepreneur and Inc. He knows how to get visitors to take action. As President, Jon has helped lead The Good to become one of Oregon's top 20 fastest growing private companies. The team at The Good have made a practice of advising brands on how to see e-commerce sales double or more. In recent years, brands that have worked with The Good have seen an average revenue increase in revenue of over 100%./>

[A recent Forbes article claims, " You see it everywhere, people staring at their smartphones without seemingly ever looking up. They’re glued to their screens, multitasking, while walking, driving, waiting in line, watching TV, studying, sitting on a train/plane, etc. While some of us may not agree with the amount of screen-time people endure, it is their time and it is creating a new genre of connected consumerism. This always-on, mobile customer isn’t just connected, they’re empowered. And, these empowered consumers are completely shattering the construct of the traditional funnel as we know it./>

[LinkedIn Profile Targeting now available on Bing Search Ads as David Szetela speaks with LinkedIn Ads Expert, Agency Founder, and Speaker AJ Wilcox. Bing last month announced the integration of LinkedIn and Microsoft Advertising. Bing is now offering profile targeting that leverages LinkedIn data for search campaigns on the Bing Ads platform. LinkedIn profile targeting is in beta for specific clients. Advertisers that want to test should reach out Bing Ads account manager that can help to join the beta. />

[David Szetela welcomes back Kirk Williams Owner of ZATO, a Paid Search &Paid Social Marketing agency and in digital marketing since 2009. They discuss how understanding client needs to lead to better analysis and better results and how when a client is unengaged, rather than just coasting or trying to change things, seek to understand why./>

[Navah Hopkins is part of the Thought Leadership and Customer Success teams at WordStream. She’s worked in digital marketing since 2008, and in paid search since 2012, committed to helping advertisers across all industries WordStream serves achieve profit and understand the process. When she’s not helping customers or speaking at international conferences, Navah enjoys gaming with her husband and cuddling with her two cats and rescue dog. WordStream helps thousands of SMB’s and the agencies who serve them win at AdWords, Bing, Display, and Facebook worldwide. We offer solutions that range from DIY to fully managed offerings, and are committed to helping our customers win in their marketplace./>