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Why You Might Be Losing Rankings to Pages with Fewer Links, Worse Targeting, and Poor Content |
Why You Might Be Losing Rankings to Pages with Fewer Links, Worse Targeting, and Poor Content Posted: 11 Jul 2013 07:12 PM PDT Posted by randfish Most of us have a pretty good sense for the best ways to improve our search rankings, including earning links, targeting the people who search for us, and making sure our sites contain high-quality content. Sometimes, though, we get outranked by sites that clearly have work to do in these areas. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand explains some of the reasons why that might happen to you.
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Mobile Bid Adjustments Part 3 – Location, Location, Location |
Mobile Bid Adjustments Part 3 – Location, Location, Location Posted: 12 Jul 2013 01:19 AM PDT Previously I've discussed ways to calculate your mobile bid adjustment, and how to use weighted averages to change keyword level bids to ad group level adjustments. Today it's time to check how adding location bid adjustments will change things. Firstly, a disclaimer: a 10% change to a bid is not the same as a 10% change to a CPC. CPC depends on competitors’ bids rather than your own; changing the bid changes what auctions you enter. If you're restricted by budget, then the proportion of spend on each device might change. But this is a rough check, to make sure the layers of adjustments aren't creating unexpected exponentials. The first step, as ever, is to download your data. Go to the Dimensions tab, then to the User Locations report. Make sure you have the right level of detail: if you're only going to add adjustments for countries then you can have just the Country/Territory; if you're using UK countries or US states then have the Region column. Download the User Location report with the Device.
Add a second worksheet, rename it ‘Location’, and list your location bid adjustments. These are campaign level only. Then add a third worksheet, rename it ‘Mobile’, and list your mobile bid adjustments. These could be campaign or ad group level: here I’ve got mine at ad group level. We want these adjustments in the first worksheet, so go back to that one and add ‘Location Adjustment’ and ‘Mobile Adjustment’ columns. ‘Location Adjustment’ is: ‘Mobile Adjustment’ is: If you had campaigns targeting multiple devices then the mobile bid used would not be the same as the bid you actually entered, as Google automatically adjusts it by an unknown amount. That means you can’t work with your actual mobile CPCs, because they don’t come from the right bid. So instead use the Desktop CPC, which will be multiplied by the mobile bid adjustment. Add a ‘Desktop CPC’ column. Then we get the adjusted CPC by multiplying it by our modifiers. This uses the mobile adjustment if the row is for mobiles, and always uses the location adjustment. Multiply the Adjusted CPC by the number of clicks to get the Adjusted Cost: Now we’ve assembled everything, it’s time to put it into a Pivot Table. Select the data, go to Insert on the menu ribbon and click Pivot Table: You’ll get a pivot table in a new worksheet. Select fields to appear in it – I suggest Campaign, Ad Group, Cost and Adjusted Cost to start with. Then add calculated fields: click ‘Option’ under PivotTable Tools in the ribbon, then ‘Fields, Items, & Sets’, then ‘Calculated Field…’: Create one called Adj CPC, for the adjusted CPC: Also add ‘CPC’, which is: CPA: and Adj CPA: You can then see how your bid adjustments should roughly affect the Cost, CPC and CPA. You can change the Row Labels to see how bids are affected when viewed by Region or Device. You can also add an ‘Effective Adjustment’ calculated field ( You might want to have ad scheduling as well. Unfortunately you can't segment the User Location report by time of day, but you can segment by Device and Day of the Week. If you want ad scheduling but no location adjustments, you could download the Hour of Day report segmented by Time of Day and Device. You'll then need an extra worksheet with your time-based adjustments, and an extra column to add them to the main data, but you can calculate the 'Adjusted' columns and pivot in the same way. If you’d like to see the example spreadsheet then download it here. That’s it! Our three-part discussion of bid adjustments is over (for now). Do you have any thoughts on how to calculate them, or predict their effects when there are so many unknowns in play? Let us know in the comments. © SEOptimise Mobile Bid Adjustments Part 3 – Location, Location, Location |
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"Win-Win" Situation for Employers to Not Offer Healthcare to Part-Time Employees Posted: 11 Jul 2013 11:04 PM PDT The peculiarities of Obamcare keep piling up. Here's the latest: Wegmans, a Rochester-based grocery store has decided to do something beneficial for its part-time employees, stop health care insurance. The reason? Employers and employees alike are better off if the employer does not offer health-care benefits to part-time employees. Please consider Wegmans cuts health benefits for part-time workers. Et tu, Wegmans?Now Ain't That Special Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http://www.sitkapacific.com/account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific. |
Police Investigate 'United Stasi of America' Artist Posted: 11 Jul 2013 08:09 PM PDT Is it illegal to project a sign such as the following onto a building? What if the person projecting the image is in Germany, and the target building is the US embassy in Berlin? The Local reports Police investigate 'United Stasi of America' artist Berlin police are investigating whether an artist who projected "United Stasi of America" onto the US embassy in the German capital earlier this week could be charged with a criminal offence.I commend the message and the target. For those not familiar with the term, Stasi refers to the secret police in East Germany. Origin is from German Sta(ats)si(cherheitsdienst), literally: state security service. Given the US cannot prosecute out of fear of publicity, let's hope this practice spreads. Mike "Mish" Shedlock http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http://www.sitkapacific.com/account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific. |
Portugal Uncorks Bottle of EU Crisis Genie Posted: 11 Jul 2013 12:34 PM PDT The Financial Times reports Portugal president's call for national unity backfires [President] Aníbal Cavaco Silva's call for a "national salvation" agreement between the ruling coalition and the main opposition party, leading to early elections in June 2014, was intended to restore calm following a government crisis triggered by the resignation of two senior ministers.Portugal 10-Year Bond Yield Multiple Crisis Genies Unleashed The coalition in Portugal cannot last and Portugal is 100% certain to need another bailout. With German elections coming up in September, politicians everywhere are scrambling to contain the "Crisis Genie" until after the election. Financial Times writer Peter Wise says Last week's protests in Portugal show it will not take much to uncork the botle of the ECB's crisis genie. I suggest more than one genie is already out of the bottle: the spy genie, the Italy genie, the Portugal genie, the EU Banking Proposal genie, etc. Some genies are more powerful than others, but all will help AfD bring an end to the regime of chancellor Merkel in September. For related discussion, please see Germany Election Update: AfD Soars in Online Poll; Is Merkel Toast? Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http://www.sitkapacific.com/account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific. |
Posted: 11 Jul 2013 11:21 AM PDT In June, an EU commission put forth a banking resolution proposal giving itself powers in which the ability to shut down banks would be centralised in the European Commission. Brussels would have the clout to overrule the bank's home country and use funds from a central pot. Specifically, the commission proposed the resolution authority to "be equipped with a single bank resolution fund". The fund would have the power to borrow from markets, using the "assets of euro area banks" as a guarantee and backstop. Nazi Enabling Acts The proposal was presented on Tuesday by Michel Barnier, EU commissioner for internal market and services, and immediately went up in flames when German politicians likened Brussels bank powers to Nazi 'enabling acts'. The head of a Bavarian banking association compared the European Commission's plan to grant itself the final say on winding up troubled banks to the type of law that allowed the Nazis to seize power.Reflections on What Germany and the UK Can Expect The EU will stop at nothing to give itself sweeping powers to do whatever the hell it wants including the creation of monetary transfer mechanisms that are absolutely against the German constitution. In case this was not obvious before (it should have been), it is certainly obvious now. Note the excuse by Mr Barnier "Europe cannot afford to wait for treaty change". In other words, to hell with legalities and treaties. This is such a dangerous, slippery slope that even Merkel and Schäuble commented on it. What About the UK? The same applies to the UK in a broader sense (in regards to the EU as opposed to the eurozone). The only solution is for Germany to say it has had enough of the transfer proposals and to exit the European Monetary Union (EMU). For identical reasons, the UK should exit the EU. Mike "Mish" Shedlock http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http://www.sitkapacific.com/account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific. |
Gold Jumps Nearly $50 as Market Digests Non-News From Fed; Gold Correction Over? Posted: 11 Jul 2013 12:32 AM PDT Inquiring minds note the interesting action in gold today following the non-news from the FOMC minutes from June 18 that the Bernanke Fed is not quite ready to tighten. (See FOMC Minutes and Economic Projections: Dissent in Both Directions; Confused?). Gold 15 Minute Chart click on chart for sharper image Gold Correction Over? I wonder why anyone thought the Fed was really going to tighten in the first place. Regardless, here's the key question: Does the non-news that the Fed is not really serious about tightening mark the end of the gold correction? Unfortunately, I cannot answer that (and no one else can either). However, I do expect extremely negative sentiment regarding gold to bottom at any time, and perhaps this is the time. Mike "Mish" Shedlock http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http://www.sitkapacific.com/account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific. |
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