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Whether you’re in lead gen or ecommerce, managing your business’s online advertising accounts means keeping tracking of a bunch of different metrics. You use search impression share to judge how well you’re performing in the Google Ads auction. You use engagement rate to see whether your messaging is resonating with your Facebook audiences. Across both...

WordStream has some impressive employees in our ranks: from industry influencers to marathon runners, from analysts to authors. The Employee Spotlight series aims to highlight the talented individuals who work here. Each month, we’ll be featuring an interview here on the blog and on our social accounts. For this month’s Employee Spotlight, we’re featuring Chelsea...

How many of these have you heard over the years? Convincing clients and stakeholders that SEO is worth it is half the battle. From doubts about the value of its traffic to concerns over time and competition with other channels, it seems like there’s an argument against our jobs at every turn.  In today’s Whiteboard...

This post was co-written by Holly Niemiec and Conor Bond. You need to develop a lot of different skills if you want your online advertising campaigns to achieve their full potential. Even if you’ve created watertight keyword lists and razor-sharp lookalike audiences, something still stands between your prospects and your business: ad copy. A beaut....

When I’m sweating bullets in the oppressive August heat, I want nothing more than to dive into an ice bath fit for a polar bear. But when it’s snowing boatloads, I dream of lounging like the inner feline goddess I am, sprawled out in front of every sunbeam in my reach. I like to think...

In early 2019, Google Ads announced that it will be sunsetting the average position metric later this year. At the same time, they launched four new metrics that advertisers could use in its place. Image Source Now, we know that average position will stop being supported in late September 2019. (The most recent target date...

Search for information about SEO, and you’ll quickly discover three big themes: content, user experience, and links. If you’re just getting started with SEO, that last theme will likely seem a lot more confusing and challenging than the others. That’s because, while content and user experience are under the realm of our control, links aren’t…...

Have you ever gotten home after a long day and were delightfully surprised by a package—or, let’s be honest, pile of packages—waiting at your front door? It’s one of my favorite things, and I like to think that my past-self bought a gift for my future-self. I usually don’t remember why my past-self bought the gift...