In April, Google has reportedly agreed to pay $20 million to settle the AdWords case. The case was over the daily budget and how many advertisers who have exceeded their budget by 120% on occasions.
A Google's representative stated, "Google believes the claims are without merit, but we are pleased to have the litigation behind us and to move forward with our business objectives."
Google has launched AdWords Editor 7.5.1 for Windows and Mac.
Following are some of its amazing features:
- CSV Import– This new feature has been added after Google received a lot of request from many advertisers. With the help of this new feature you can make changes to your account either on a spreadsheet or custom application, and then import your changes directly into AdWords Editor.
Google recently redesigned their ad campaign management tool, Google AdWords, to make things faster. The new interface allows you to use Ads and Keywords tabs at any level of your account to view the complete list of ads or keywords at that level. For instance, if you click on the Keywords tab on the All Online Campaigns page then it will display every keyword in your account and related statistics.
According to Micheal Orey of Business Week, by the beginning of next month, Google is planning to open up trademark keywords to AdWords advertisers. It will allow companies to bid on brand names of their competition and lead in the SERPs over branded product, service and company names.
A list of the countries and regions has been released by Google, where they will not investigate the use of trademarked keywords.
In recent months, we saw Google AdWords launching a beta test version of their new interface. Now, they have added more languages to the beta web interface. The new interface is now available in these languages:
- English
- Spanish
- French
- German
- Italian
- Dutch
- Hebrew
- Simplified Chinese
- Japanese
- Brazilian Portuguese
However, Google AdWords will be adding more languages in the future.
One of the Google advertisers was recently charged with a $30,000 bill on the campaign over the past 24hours. It is believed that the person is new to AdWords or AdSense.
Here's a snippet of the post:
One of the recent posts by Site Visibility informed that Google has updated their keyword suggestion tool. In fact, even we also noticed the same thing. The update tool will help you target local keywords during research.
Here's a screencapture of the Google Adword keyword Tool:
Jeremy Schoemaker of ShoeMoney has sued a Google employee, who owns a website that uses the patented keyword “ShoeMoney†of the company. The keyword is used by the employee on his AdWords ad campaign for directing the traffic on a site – myincentivewebsite.com
You must have observed Google AdWords slowly expanding the beta version of its new interface. Continuing the trend, Google has now introduced the beta interface with a new way of viewing conversions.
At present, we can only see 1-per-click conversion at AdWords interface, which means if a customers clicks on the ad, makes a purchase in single day and then comes back to make purchase another day without clicking the ad. In this case only a single conversion is counted. However, the new interface will give you two ways to look at such type of conversions:
Google has announced two new billing changes for AdWords advertisers in India – Minimum Prepayment amount and Activation Fee.
Minimum Prepayment Amount
Google has increased the minimum prepayment amount from INR 120 to INR 500 for AdWords advertisers in India. According to Google, all the payments made through cheques or demand drafts must be at least INR 500, or they'll be unable to process the payment.