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Our Digital Marketing Strategist Marjorie Sliker is now a Certified Google Adwords Specialist.

The Google AdWords certification is a professional accreditation that Google offers to individuals who demonstrate proficiency in basic and advanced aspects of AdWords. Being certified means that Google recognizes you as an online advertising professional.

By becoming a Certified Google Specialist, Marjorie has a personalized certificate from Google recognizing her expertise. She is now a Google Partner and is helping Broadstreet in it's quest to earn the Google Partner Badge as an agency.

You need to pass 2 of the 120 minute AdWords certification exams to become an AdWords certified professional — Marjorie passed the AdWords Fundamentals exam and the Search Advertising exam.

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To give you more insight into the performance of your Facebook ads, Facebook has officially introduced the new Ads Relevance Score as a visible metric in the ad reporting tools.

Ads Relevance Score is a metric that provides an estimate of how relevant your ad is to its target audience, on a scale of 1 to 10. For anyone familiar with Google Adwords, it is similar to the Quality Score.

Taking relevance into account helps ensure that people see ads that matter to them, leading to a better experience for people and businesses alike.

How relevance scores works

Relevance score is calculated based on the positive and negative feedback an ad receives from its target audience. Ads receive a relevance score between 1 and 10, with 10 being the highest. The relevance score will only appear once an ad has recieved 500 impressions or more.

The score is updated as people interact and provide feedback on the ad. The more positive interactions, the higher the ad’s relevance score will be. The more times people hide or report an ad, the lower its score will be.

Positive Feedback

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As web developers who provide ongoing SEO support for our clients, we are constantly thinking about and helping our clients with reputation management and search engine optimization. When someone types your name or your company’s name into google, you want to own as many of the results as possible. Your website, blog, facebook page, twitter page, linkedin page, Yelp listings, and other business profile pages should rank highly. We want the pages that we can control at the top, because the more search results you can control, the less likely and angry blog or questionable news article will show up on page one.

Wikipedia has become one of the most popular online reference sources, and many small business owners wonder if they can get a wiki-article for their business. After all, Coca Cola has one, Forbes Magazine, even smaller businesses like Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles have their own pages.

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Just when you've started getting comfortable with using Facebook's Business Accounts for managing multiple business campaigns, boom, there's another change.

This summer Facebook rolled out the new Facebook Business Manager that lets teams at businesses and agencies manage multiple ad campaigns and pages in one interface. All of your pages and ad accounts, and people you need to work on them, are now in one place.

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Have you ever been scrolling down your Facebook news feed in the few spare minutes that you have, and seen an article that really interested you that you just didn't have time to read? 

Chances are you "shared" it to your wall for everyone else to see but never came back to it, or you just accepted your loss.

This summer, Facebook launched a "Save" feature that allows users to privately save Facebook pages and links that interest them and come back to them later. Exciting, right?!

The web and mobile archival feature, called "Facebook Save," aims to help people who don't have time to explore links, places, movies, TV shows or music immediately. So now you no longer have to miss out on your favorite page's newest post, or that Copyblogger article you may never find again.

Even if you're someone who is willing to share every interesting article on your Facebook wall, eventually your wall fills up, and posts begin to disappear. This new save feature keeps the links and pages you want archived into a list that is automatically organized by category, and the list can be accessed at any time on the social network's website, iOS app or Android app.

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Google Adwords has become one of the biggest assets for some of our clients, driving sales and phone calls instantly. It has become one of the most effective ways for some of our clients to advertise, targeting exactly who they want to target and getting the most out of their ad budget.

Related: Immediate Success in Google Adwords

 

But we know, having used Adwords for years, that it can be expensive if not handled correctly, and almost all small businesses make costly mistakes when they start using AdWords.

This is because the AdWords system penalizes you for mistakes you do not even know you are making. In some cases, AdWords even encourages these mistakes. The trick is to manage campaigns to get the highest return on investment.

A poorly managed Adwords account can cost more than it brings in, but a well managed accout can not only keep your company in business, but keep it growing.

In this post, we’ll discuss the 5 easiest mistakes to make with Google AdWords, and how to avoid them.

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I recently setup a products feed from Drupal 7 to Google Merchant Center, and it took quite a bit of work. I am expecting it to be worth the effort. Maybe it will not be right now, but in the future. I decided to go with xml because it was the simplest to me, and I am not a spreadsheet guy.

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Yelp is local business and service search engine and social network that uses a rating system based on user reviews - and it is a major tool for small businesses to be found.

If you run a local business, Yelp should be an essential cornerstone of your online presence.

You can add your business to Yelp, but chances are if you've been around a while it is already listed with no prior input from you or anyone associated with your business. In which case, "Claim This Business" will be written somewhere on the profile and you can follow the link to claim the profile and begin updating your business information. Or you can follow these first 3 steps.

This article will guide you through the process of adding your business to the Yelp search results.

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I have done a lot of Drupal theming with Omega 3, and I have been trying to figure out a way to have my themes look good after an install without much customization. Also, I want my features to come themed, such as some views, or slideshows, etc. Then I realized someone has already done this. Its called Bootstrap 3. I love the way the grid works, to me it is better then the Omega grid. I often had trouble trying to put grids inside of grids and so on, but with Bootstrap it is a peice of cake. Also, the documentation for Bootstrap is really good. So if I want to make a change with a Bootstrap site, I go look at the documentation first and usually there is a class made for that already. I have a few features, and before, I would install them, then theme them. This doesn't make sense to do this, but I was so inconsistent with my different themes there was no way to have them look good out of the box. Now, I can add Bootstrap classes to them and I know they are going to look good.

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