Three 2020 Campaigns That Inspire Me
With increasing numbers of emerging channels and technologies available for marketers, today’s campaigns are extremely innovative, impactful and creative. Successful ad campaigns have the power to stir up emotions and stay in our memory for a long time, influencing our style, opinion, buying decisions and…
The Tug Take – Preparing for Google sunsetting BMM Keywords
Google Ads are changing Match Types From February 2021, Google will be phasing out Broad Match Modifier keywords. This will affect the keywords that PPC accounts currently have, and the keywords that can be created going forward. For a reminder of what keyword Match Types…
Gender Parity in SEO
Identifying and filling gaps is key to any successful SEO strategy. However, there is one gap that the industry has failed to address – the gender gap. For the last 10 years, there has been extreme stagnation in the growth of women in SEO with…
Google Featured Snippets – How To Optimise For Them
Google search results are constantly evolving, and features are always changing, to provide more accurate results and a better user experience. One of the more important updates to SERPs in the past decade are Featured Snippets. These can be seen at the top of main…
Navigate Competitive PPC Markets Through Cross-Channel Collaboration
PPC auctions can be competitive and expensive. It’s commonly known that to get ahead in PPC you don’t always have to pay more. It’s also not news that supporting search campaigns through other marketing channels can give your search campaigns an edge. However, having recently…
Preparing For Free Google Shopping In Q4
“Google’s Big Announcement” In April this year Google announced that free listings will be available in Shopping results. Starting in the US and set to continue to roll-out to other countries and will be available in the UK before the end of the year. Only…
The Skinny on Voice Search
Voice search originated in 2002, with the initial release of Google Voice search. 10 years later, Google released a new Google Search app for iOS, which featured an enhanced Google Voice Search function, aimed to compete with Apple’s voice assistant Siri. Since Apple’s Siri emerged…
What’s the buzz in Social Meed-ya this week?
Was it Twitter’s share price taking a tumble? Or Facebook announcing that Q4 2013 was their biggest ever quarter for advertising spend? Or is the news that it was 10 years to the date that a lowly Harvard student launched a social network in his…
Search Trend Thursday: Snowden vs NSA
With the news that Edward Snowden has been granted asylum in Russia, I decided to explore a point made recently by journalists: that the mainstream media have made a soap opera over the topic, deterring readers and viewers from the core issues at hand (privacy…
Search Trend Thursday: Ryanair vs Easyjet
It’s been a while since I’ve had the time to bring you another dosage of trendy insights but I’m back! I’ve decided to take a look at two brands this week: Easyjet & Ryanair. With the holiday season rapidly approaching it made sense to check…