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Google to Offer AdWords-Exclusive Credit Cards to Select Customers

While Google may be tightening its focus on core products, it's still experimenting with various ways of expanding and promoting the use of its products. The latest is a very interesting approach, it will be issuing out credit cards to select AdWords customers to be used for online advertising on Google alone. ...

21 July 2011
08:49 GMT

Google Instant Previews for Ads Official, Already Available

As expected, Google has now officially launched Instant Previews for Ads, after the feature was spotted in testing last week. Google did provide more details, but there's nothing revolutionary here, technically and from a user's perspective, Instant Previews for Ads work just like the regular ones for any w...

26 April 2011
06:01 GMT

Google Lures Small Business with $100 Million Worth of Free Advertising

Google is doubling down on efforts to conquer the small business market. Not that this is something new, Google has been trying to crack the potentially very lucrative advertising market for years, but it's now starting to look like it may have a chance. Beyond a greater number of products aimed at small busines...

30 December 2010
05:51 GMT

Google to Be More Transparent About Ad Policies to Settle French Case

Google has settled with the French authorities in a case concerning its policy of blocking certain keywords somewhat arbitrarily. Google has agreed to notify account owners three months in advance when it plans to block keywords, but only in France and only for companies selling devices aimed at drivers trying to avo...

28 October 2010
12:20 GMT

Google Mysteriously Terminates Contracts with 7 Chinese Ad Agents

A Google spokesperson confirmed the company will terminate contracts with seven Chinese ad agents.According to Cindy Qin, Google spokesperson: "The [termination] letter was sent out to them on September 27... We gave them a month's notice, [...] We hope to find new resellers to partner with so we can provide eve...

19 October 2010
10:50 GMT

Google Switches to Purple Search Ads

Google has started rolling out a new look for search ads with a purple background. Google paid search ads have a pale yellow background to differentiate them from the regular, organic search results. While the yellow background has become somewhat of an industry standard, Google has actually introduced it just about ...

30 July 2010
08:39 GMT

Google Revamps AdWords Tools for Agencies

Google is stepping up its advertising game with several new features for agencies and consultants. The search company is launching a new certification program that should be a more relevant measure of the advertising professionals’ skills. Certified partners will also be able to add themselves to the Google Par...

26 April 2010
09:40 GMT

Ads Follow You Across the Web with Google Remarketing

Google is once again pushing the boundaries of online privacy with a new advertising option, dubbed remarketing, which would allow advertisers to target potential customers who may be interested in their products but aren't 'convinced' yet. If a user visits your site but leaves without purchasing anyt...

26 March 2010
07:29 GMT

A New Conversion Reporting Tool: Google AdWords Search Funnels

Google is always expanding its product lineup, but at the end of the day, it still makes the vast majority of its revenue from advertising. As such, it's always looking to come up with better tools for advertisers, even though it dominates the market. One interesting feature that is being released over the next ...

24 March 2010
11:54 GMT

Google Is More Lenient with the 'Family-Safe' Content in Ads

In the good old days, Google made a big breakthrough with very simple yet effective text-only ads. These ads showing up for relevant searches made Google into the tech giant it is today. Over time, though, the company has started to diversify its offering while, thankfully, maintaining its clean approach to advertis...

5 January 2010
10:56 GMT

Google AdWords Professional Search Goes Live

There are all sorts of gurus, experts, superstars and the likes these days all professing to possess extraordinary skills in some sort of online field be it social media, the latest trend, or good old fashioned search engines. The problem is that most of these are self-proclaimed experts and there aren't easy w...

28 December 2009
10:53 GMT

Google Cuts Down on Gifts to Partners, Donates to Charity

Every year for the past few, Google has rewarded its AdSense and AdWords customers with all sorts of gifts ranging from memory cards to coffee mugs. In the early days, the company would get pretty generous with its gifts but this year, it remained quiet for a while, leading many to ask whether the economy hadn't...

22 December 2009
11:46 GMT

Google Announces the DoubleClick Ad Exchange Revolution in Web Marketing

Web ad marketing has managed to propel Google from the ranks of a simple search engine to the world's most powerful company (yeah, you heard me right). Announcing the release of its new program, DoubleClick Ad Exchange, Google transformed itself into a giant real-time ad bidding machine. Neal Mohan, vice presi...

18 September 2009
05:25 GMT

Google to Allow Third-Party Ad Networks to Use AdSense

Google is one of the most open companies out there but at the end of the day it wants to make money just like everyone else so the advertising programs, which generate the overwhelming majority of the search giant's revenue, have been mostly kept close to the chest, with advertisers and users presented with a pr...

27 August 2009
09:13 GMT

Alleged AdWords Violation Settled for Undisclosed Sum

An interesting case involving online marketing guru Jeremy Schoemaker and Google employee Keyen Farrell has been settled recently though the exact details are scarce, TechCrunch reports. In the lawsuit, Schoemaker accused Farrell, who was an AdWords account strategist for Google at the time, of bypassing the AdWords...

6 August 2009
06:52 GMT

Google Gets More Local with New AdWords Extensions

The Internet is getting increasingly localized and it's also becoming aware of where you are. Geotagging is the latest trend in browsers and, as more start to support the feature, a lot of sites are starting to make use of it. One of the areas that can benefit from geolocation is targeted ads, also something Int...

27 July 2009
09:11 GMT

Google Sued over Adwords Policy Change

Rosetta Stone, a company that develops language education software, has sued Google for allowing advertisers to infringe on its trademark. The company alleges that a recent change in the Adwords policy allows competitors to advertise next to a trademarked keyword or use a trademark in their ads without the consent of...

13 July 2009
02:37 GMT

The Google Online Marketing Challenge Names Its Winners

Teams from 47 countries entered a contest sponsored by Google, but only 4 came out victorious. All of them had as mission the finding of small businesses that had a website but didn't profit from the possibility of advertising their products online. Google gave the contestants AdWords vouchers worth $200 in orde...

17 July 2008
06:43 GMT

Google Helps Advertisers Have a Clearer View of the Market

Google has introduced a new feature in order to help its advertisers have a better view of the market. The search volume data are statistics that show the number of queries performed in the past on Google and the affiliate search network that matches the current keywords. Trevor Claiborne, Inside AdWords team member,...

9 July 2008
12:23 GMT

Even More Google AdWords Phishing Scams

A long time ago, when we first detected a Google AdWords phishing scam, it all looked like a shy attack because nobody could ever think that it would last several months. Even if phishing websites have been shut down, attackers are continuously creating new ones, which simply follow the same line: malicious emails se...

28 May 2008
03:28 GMT

Google Opens Its Content Network to Third Parties

All web masters know that the best way of making a website return initial investments is through online advertising. This actually translates into webmasters letting their website feature advertisements for various products. One of the highest used advertising services is Google's AdWords, which uses a site'...

19 May 2008
10:58 GMT

Google to Run Illustrated Advertisements on Image Search

Most web surfers are familiar with Google's way of advertising on various web pages. The Google AdWords is a way in which both Google and the sites that subscribe to this service can make money. The AdWords service, which is part of Google's advertisement program, makes use of the content found on a specifi...

8 May 2008
05:46 GMT

Google AdWords Scam Phishers Tracked Down

We reported about this Google AdWords phishing scam a long time ago, but it seems like the attackers are still struggling to find new victims since the message still reaches users' inboxes. However, new information was revealed yesterday as Loucif Kharouni of Trend Micro got one of these emails asking for the Ad...

5 May 2008
05:04 GMT

Demographics Targeting for All Advertisers

After having monetized on its advertising programs for so long and taking the cash while only offering a platform and a few choices to advertisers, Google is now finally sharing with the world what only few have been able to test since January: demographic targeted ads. The feature was announced with little buzz, but...

24 March 2008
15:16 GMT

Fake Google Email Attempts to Steal Your Money

We all know that Google, the Mountain View super search giant, communicates with its users by phone or by email every time users have to be informed about important matters. And if the emails' subject concerns AdWords, Google's money machine, the message is bound to be important and has to be read as soon a...

22 March 2008
11:04 GMT

Google Accused of Grabbing Clients' Money

AdWords clients were announced about a beta version of a new feature, dubbed Automatic Matching. Google might have wanted to keep working on it or to never have come up with it at all, by the waves it stirred. The feature will redirect the remaining sum of daily budget, if any, into what the Mountain View-based compa...

26 February 2008
17:06 GMT

AdWords Going for Demographic Targeting

"Demographic bidding is a way to help your ads reach audiences of a certain age or gender. If you want your ads to be seen by women aged 18-24, or people over 55, demographic bidding can help," is how the service's page presents it. Advertisers can use this tool to have better product placement from AdSense in o...

24 January 2008
06:28 GMT

Some Insight About AdWords Ads

The Google Groups Forum are always the best place to gather interesting pieces of information about the product you're using in case it's designed by the Mountain View based company. Many people have found relief and answers to their problems there and that's to say Google is currently trying to improv...

17 January 2008
06:53 GMT

AdWords Seminars for New Users

The Seminars are the must-be place for those who want to start an account in the near future and have no previous experience with it. Conducted by search marketing professionals, they might prove the difference between "a lot" of cash coming your way because of careful optimization of your AdWords account or "some" c...

16 January 2008
06:00 GMT

Google Bans ASCII Art from AdWords?

The repetitive way that Google ads run on the side of the search result, all link and description plus sites, is dull and bores many to hell and back. That's why a German car rental client of the BannerBlog decided to ask for something different, something to make the person searching now at a glance what their ...

11 January 2008
08:31 GMT

AdWords Banned by Google for Being Sexy

If you bought the space and round of ads, you just got to run with it, but if you deem them as having adult content that's a totally different story. You might have the right to be silent and banned if you take the courageous step.This was learned firsthand by the US lingerie company Pampered Passions, who foun...

28 December 2007
15:36 GMT

OneBox Results Move to AdWords Section

First came love then came marriage, then came Google with a baby carriage. Oh, sorry, that wasn't the rhyme I was looking for, but it somehow suits the purpose as well. What I was going after was more in the lines of: first came Google and the idea of adding scroll function for its ads, then it came with the id...

27 December 2007
10:23 GMT

Google: "Ho-Ho-Ho, I Come Bearing Gifts"

AdSense and AdWords users beware, do not trust in Google even when it brings you gifts! Or was it the saying "Do not trust the Greek"? Anyway, as a means to atone for yesterday's taking away of the option to choose exactly where you'd like to advertise your product, today Google has started sending the Holi...

6 December 2007
05:12 GMT

Google Making Another Move for Fairness

Almost a decade ago, when baby Google was born, it wasn't the company of dreams it is today. It had a reduced number of employees, the pay was far from impressing and the headquarters well let's just say they were galaxies away from today but, by popular choice and a very good ad-distribution platform, th...

3 December 2007
13:51 GMT

AdWords Users, Listen Up

An issue often brought up by the advertisers that have just recently started up using AdWords and its specialized vocabulary of AdWords advertising is that of the cost-per-click (CPC) values and the ways they are determined. Blake, of the Inside AdWords crew, wrote on the blog that is "the official source for informa...

12 November 2007
04:58 GMT

What A Deal! Google And Yellow Pages!

Google strikes again. This time it's the Yellow Pages Group which signed a deal with the Mountain View company in order to distribute advertisements on the Internet. The entire process will be enhanced by Google AdWords, the advertising platform which will support the deal and place adverts on the search engine ...

11 October 2007
05:51 GMT

This Is the Last Warning! Update Your Google Tool Now!

AdWords Editor is currently used by numerous consumers registered for the Google advertising platform because it gives the possibility to manage the AdWords account even if in offline mode and upload them on the web when an Internet connection is detected. Because the super giant Google is continuously working on it,...

26 September 2007
03:50 GMT

Google Brings Newspapers On The Web

A long time ago, the Mountain View super giant Google announced its plans to improve its advertising solutions and move them into the traditional media such as newspapers or radio stations. In July, the company released the first version of Google Print Ads which allows the US advertisers to expand their AdWords adve...

21 September 2007
14:41 GMT

Google: The Mobile Hunting Season Officially Started!

Google is always looking to expand its advertising offering and this was proved especially by the recent efforts made by its employees. Nowadays, every Internet user talks about Google and its mobile plans as it was rumored that the Mountain View company is interested in developing a mobile operating system and even ...

13 September 2007
04:50 GMT

Google Chat Goes Live

Besides the already famous Google Groups help forums, feedback emails and the Help Center, the Mountain View company is now offering one more method to get support in a matter of seconds. The Google AdWords Support Chat is currently available only for the advertising platform but the super giant Google might extend i...

12 September 2007
05:49 GMT

Google Wins US Lawsuit

American Blind & Wallpaper Factory Inc. finally agreed to drop the lawsuit filed against the Mountain View company Google after it first accused the search giant for selling AdWords keywords related to its name to other Internet consumers and especially to its rivals. The lawsuit was started in 2003 in the U.S. Distr...

4 September 2007
15:06 GMT

Google AdWords Gets Office Support

Google AdWords, the advertising platform that allows people to advertise on the Internet using the power of the best search technology, is now compatible with Docs & Spreadsheets, the freeware word processor offered by the same Google. Basically, it's all about a single function, the Report Center that provides ...

21 August 2007
05:42 GMT

Hot New Google Tool Available for Download

Google's downloadable tool AdWords Editor gets a brand new version, 4.0 that brings several new features to all the registered members of the advertising platform. First of all, AdWords Editor 4.0 offers support for the mobile ads, allowing you to view, add and update the mobile adverts in a matter of minutes. A...

9 August 2007
05:22 GMT

Google Works On Its Products, New Downtimes Announced

Google doesn't sleep. Never! Because it really needs to stay focused onto its products, improve them and sometimes repair the broken things discovered by its users. Every once in a while, it announces maintenance periods that are especially created to fix the recently discovered problems and check if all the thi...

9 August 2007
04:41 GMT

Google Finally Reached The Newspapers

What looked like a simple Google plan is now becoming reality because the Mountain View company finally expanded AdWords into the offline media by placing adverts into US newspapers. First of all, this new program is extremely useful for a lot of advertisers because - according to a study conducted by Scarborough Res...

19 July 2007
04:38 GMT

Google Accidentally Removed Users' Accounts

Some of the AdWords users were quite shocked a few days ago when they noticed their accounts were canceled without any notification. As you know, you're not able to do many things while your account is canceled including campaign editing or other similar actions. According to several users from the WebmasterWorl...

18 July 2007
04:50 GMT

Google Shouts at ACCC: 'See You in Court!'

The story so far: the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) sued Google because the sponsored links displayed on the SERP "engaged and continues to engage in misleading and deceptive conduct in breach of section 52 of the Act." At that time, the Mountain View company refused to comment on the lawsuit...

17 July 2007
15:06 GMT

Google Sent to Court By the Government

A new important case was announced today by the Australian Government's watchdog, The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission that sued Google Inc, Google Australia and Google Ireland for "misleading and deceptive conduct in relation to sponsored links that appeared on the Google website." Basically, the ...

12 July 2007
09:01 GMT

Google: More Downtimes Soon!

Every once in a while, Google cooks system maintenances in order to verify the solutions it owns and if everything works by the plan. However, the search giant announces this period with one week before because some of the functions implemented into certain products might become unavailable. This time, the shut down ...

12 July 2007
04:30 GMT

Hungry for Money? Read This!

Impression Share is probably one of the most useful functions included in the AdWords advertising platform because it helps advertisers organize their campaigns better with minimum financial effort. Basically, this feature represents "the percentage of times your ads were actually shown in relation to the total numbe...

6 July 2007
04:15 GMT


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