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Bell New Managing Director

Exciting News: New Leadership at Bell

Dear client and partner, I’m pleased to share some exciting news with you about Bell
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How Short Form Videos are Revolutionising Marketing Strategies

In recent years, short form videos have seen a huge increase in popularity. So much
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Microsoft Announce New OpenAI Powered Bing & Edge

Yesterday (7th February 2023) Microsoft officially announced that they are soon to launch AI-powered versions
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The Top 2022 SEO Tools To Boost Organic Rankings

Focusing on improving your website for organic gains in SERPs is a good idea. When
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A Starter’s Guide to Google Search Console in 2022

You are probably familiar with Google Search – 86% of UK Internet users use it.
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Quick Update: Ads are coming to Netflix

Netflix is getting a new ad-supported subscription tier from November. This new lower priced tier
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What does Google’s Helpful Content Update mean for your business?

 Google releases updates several times a year. Each update is designed to improve Google’s search
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Bell Digital Marketing Round-up: July 2022

From Google core updates to viral trends on TikTok, the digital marketing landscape is always
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How to build a consistent brand on social media

With brand awareness cited as a top priority among marketers, and over 3.8 billion social
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Eight benefits of influencer marketing for your business

  This article explains why so many businesses are embracing influencer marketing and how it
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Bell Digital Marketing Round-up: June 2022

Digital marketing is a fast-paced industry. This month has seen a number of important updates,
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Becoming Bell

 Over recent months we have become Bell Digital Marketing to join the dots once and
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How to Improve your SEO for Black Friday and Cyber Monday

In 2020, Black Friday was the most popular 'deal day' in the UK, Germany and
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Why you should embrace Microsoft Ads

As a Head of Paid Media, I often participate in new clients pitching and, more
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Top 3 Content Marketing Challenges in 2021

Creating a robust content marketing strategy can be a challenge but is extremely important for
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Starting a new job in lockdown

It was last summer when I decided to change jobs. The idea was to specialise
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What will Paid Search be like in 5 years?

It is no secret that Paid Search, and more particularly Google Ads, is evolving at
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5 SEO trends to include in your 2021 strategy

Last year was full of changes and uncertainty, but presented new consumer trends and a
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The Secret Sauce of Successful Paid Digital Marketing

Marketing as a whole has some core prerequisites to be successful (measurable goals, a united
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Google Analytics Down – What Does This Mean?

Google Analytics Goes Down – What Does This Mean For Us? Many of you may
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Twitter & TweetDeck Outage Raises Questions of Reliability

Twitter is now back to normal after users across the world experienced disruptions on Wednesday
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Ad Formats For Your Facebook Campaigns

Ad formats for your Facebook campaignsThe best way to get the most out of Facebook
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Stop Using Robots.txt Noindex By September

Stop Using Robots.txt Noindex By September Let’s all get prepared ahead of time, ready for
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Google Search Console’s Data Outage Caused By Indexing Bug

Google Search Console Data Outage As digital marketing professionals, we heavily rely on Google Search
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2019 PPC – The State of Keywords

In part 1 of this blog series looking at the new PPC management landscape after
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PPC Management For Today

As promised, we’re starting our series of articles about advertisers can adapt their accounts to
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2019 & The State of PPC

If you look back over the last 18 months to 2 years, you’ll see that,
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The Death of Keywords

Keywords and their management have historically been a central plank of managing Search Advertising campaigns
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When it comes to online branding, don’t forget the ‘branding’

For the most effective online branding in a growingly complex environment, brands must resist the
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How to solve Facebook under-delivery

If your Facebook ads are under-delivering you might not be getting the maximal results that
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Scroll Depth Tracking And Bounce Rate In Google Analytics

If you use Google Tag Manager, you’ll probably have noticed that there is now the
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Paid Search Is Fishing, Not Fish Farming

The is a lot of confusion and a host of myths about what Paid Search
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Bell Digital finalist for a major award from Google

The good news!We are proud to announce that Bell Digital has been named a finalist
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Google Analytics Segments Vs Filters

One of the most common questions I’m asked about Google Analytics is the difference between
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How to Automate Yourself to Success in PPC

Since the main purpose of PPC (like all marketing) is to communicate and persuade humans
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Excel for PPC Managers Event

Following the success of our first event, Google Analytics Best Practices, we hosted a beginner’s
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RIP AdWords – Hello Google Ads!

This July, Google AdWords (and other ad services Google owns) is changing its name. It
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The Bell Guide To Meta Robots Tags

Meta robots tags are something that you’re almost inevitably going to come across if you
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Google Analytics Best Practices Event

On the 29th of June, we hosted our first in-house event, Google Analytics Best Practices,
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How The Death Of Average Position Makes PPC Better

Google has announced that the Average Position (in some quarters referenced as “Average Rank”) metric,
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Is Sentiment Analysis The Next Big Thing In SEO?

Sentiment analysis is one of the current hot topics in the data and analytics world,
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Client’s Recognition

We are thrilled to announce that our clients Tiffany Rose and TOWER London were recognised
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Brexit?

While people share different opinions over Brexit, PPC is strongest when it’s not cut adrift
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Holidays Review

Everyone loves holidays: spending time with friends, good food, and plentiful drinks. Nobody would deny
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How Was Your Holiday Season?

Was Christmas and holiday season a gift for your business?Since it is one of the
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Localisation

The Importance of Localisation Localised digital marketing is an important part of SEM - it
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Bell Digital & Quantcast Partnership

The PartnershipOne of the hallmarks of Bell Digital is our algorithmic attribution software, which allows
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Everyone Could Be Ironman

Who wouldn’t want Jarvis - the complete AI-based assistant Tony Stark (Ironman) uses in his
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Algorithmic Attribution

Measuring and optimising the performance of their investments is the goal of every marketer. To
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Fraud: The Hidden Face of Digital Advertising

 After drugs, fraud in digital advertising is one of the most lucrative illegal activities in
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Digital March Madness

March Madness is here, but that doesn’t mean just basketball. This March has seen all
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Are You Missing SEM Traffic?

Today there are over 3.5 billion Google searches performed each day and around another 2
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2016 A Year In Review

As we begin making our way into 2017, it’s important to reflect on the year
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Understanding Google’s Hotel Metasearch Proposition

The success of metasearch engines such as Trivago, Kayak, Tripadvisor, hotelscombined, hipmunk and others
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Don’t Kill Your Sales With The Wrong Efficiency KPI

If you’ve been having trouble hitting your PPC Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for the
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Experiment or bust?

A PPC account that is running pretty well can always do better. But why rock
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Stop GDN Waste!

The Google Display Network (GDN) is a continuously growing and changing beast, much like the
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7 “Hidden” SEM Problems

Your PPC account has been running for some time and you’re making a profit OK,
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Be Careful With New AdWords Device Bid Modifiers

With Google’s Device Bid Modifier rolling out recently, you can now adjust bids for individual
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New Google Ad Formats

Last month, Google announced that they will be making changes to travel and shopping
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Google Display Ads on Mobile

In an environment that is increasingly mobile-first, being present with your message to the
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Bell Digital Platform 7.1 Update

Bell Digital is proud to announce the new and updated version of our in-house platform
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Verizon Buys Yahoo

As if Microsoft purchasing Linkedin wasn’t enough excitement already, there’s a new deal this week
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Apple Store Ad Launch

For companies with apps looking to use it as a sales channel, it’s a nightmare
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Microsoft/LinkedIn Deal

Over the past month, the world has been buzzing about a business decision that will
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Test Searches For Your Ads

If you’re wondering what your ad may look like to search engine users, you
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Bell Using Expanded Text Ads

At the Google Performance Summit last month, Google Adwords announced the introduction of Expanded Text
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Why PPC is Like Paul McCartney

There are many companies out there who either have SEM managed by a dedicated SEM
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Why Google Adwords is Going “Mobile-First”

You’ve heard the announcements from the Google Performance Summit that Google Adwords will be going
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Maximise Your Ad Real Estate In Paid Search

When it comes to text ads, a small amount of extra screen space used can
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Are These Match Type Issues Crushing Your Accounts?

How to handle match types or keyword matching options that designate which searches will
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Google’s Performance Summit

Hold onto your seats, because Google just made considerable changes to the way they
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Text Display Ads

Most users of AdWords – Account Managers or your in-house PPC person/team – will
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What Type of Geo-Targeting To Use and When

If you are either a small, local business or a multinational conglomerate, it will
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Overseas PPC 101

If your business has an international footprint, it makes sense to market internationally. Implementing
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Customer Lifetime Value

Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) is one of the most important metrics for shaping your
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How To: Remarketing Lists For Search Ads (RLSA)

Users often (about 95% of the time) do not convert on initial contact with
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Catering to the 3 Main Types Of Devices in PPC: Tablet

This is our third and final instalment of our three-part blog series on PPC
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Catering to the 3 Main Types Of Devices in PPC: Mobile

Mobile is huge. As we know from “Mobilegeddon”, there is no denying the power that
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Catering to the 3 Main Types Of Devices in PPC: Desktop

Pay Per Click (PPC) has changed a lot over the recent years due to the
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PPC Campaign Losing Money?

Pay Per Click (PPC) campaigns can bring your business the success it needs to
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New Google Ad Layout

In the last few days, Google has announced they have united the ad layouts for
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Why 3rd Party Tracking

Tracking web data, such as clicks and conversions, is important to the success of
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Local Inventory Ads

Adapting to a new format launch on Google AdWords is always a tricky task
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AdWords Customer Match

Google’s AdWords Customer Match lets advertisers upload their customer and promotional email address lists into
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Bell Digital Platform Update

We are proud to announce the release of the SEM platform v6.10! In short, this
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What SEM Can’t Do

Search Engine Marketing is a type of digital marketing that involves the promotion of websites
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A Year in Review

As we begin 2016, we’re going to look back at the progress we’ve made as
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Bell Digital Joins Yahoo Preferred Partner Program

Bell Digital has joined the Yahoo Preferred Partner Program! The Yahoo Preferred Partner Program is