Paying attention to the nuances and changes of the world’s most prominent search engine is one of the tasks we give high priority to here at Farfetched Studios, as ranking post-query is everything in today’s world. The Search Engine Journal announced on their blog this week that Google Ads will now officially make account-level negative
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Google My Business: 5 Things You Should Be Utilizing
It is now 2021, and Farfetched Studios has come to recognize Google as the standard for customers searching for businesses and products online and nearby. Surprisingly only about 50% of business owners have claimed their Google My Business (GMB) listing and validated their address and business information. Most owners are already extremely busy with the
Continue reading »Google Ads Pushes Advertisers to Give Broad Match Another Chance
Suggested Broad Match Keywords are starting to show in Google Recommendations Google has started to show new Recommendations for switching to broad match keywords in Google Ads. “If you’re using Smart Bidding, we’ll identify existing keywords that are likely to improve performance if you switch them to broad match,” Google said in a blog post
Continue reading »Proactively Building Negative Keyword Lists in Google Ads is More Important than Ever
Ahead of schedule, Google appears to have rolled out new automated features to further enhance its machine learning. All of this comes with a new “cost to the advertiser”… Farfetched Studios has discovered some ways to help review your account and avoid pitfalls! Google has begun restricting terms within the advertisers search query report to
Continue reading »ADA Compliance: Current Issues at Hand For a Diverse Web Audience
Many people have not thought of their digital storefront or company landscape in quite the same light as they would a physical building. It’s hard to conceptualize for some, but making your content available to all users via the internet now falls under the same types of rules and regulations that would govern an apartment
Continue reading »Google’s Rivals Grow as Microsoft, AOL Sign 10-year Search and Display Deal
Bing replaces Google for organic search results on AOL sites effective Jan. 1, 2016 Microsoft continues to heat up its efforts to combat rival Google in the search engine domain as it partnered with America Online (AOL) for a 10-year pact. The deal will eventually mean Bing takes over 100 percent of the organic search
Continue reading »All Searches Matter: Yahoo Bing’s Numbers Increase to Take 1/3 of Searches
Less competition, faster average growth among reasons why Bing holds its ground More than two-thirds of people in the United States will use Google as their search engines. Google has even become a verb rather than a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. Nobody ever “Bings” anything. Or do they? That other one-third — that belongs
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