Good morning search marketers, which mobile device are you reading this on?
Yesterday, Google rolled out a new feature in the Google Ads console that shows mobile page speed rankings for more landing pages.The hope is advertisers will know if their ads are being served on pages that generate a poor user experience due to slow page load.
(Side note: Of course, Google yesterday made a similar announcement about how well AMP ads perform.)
Meanwhile, Bing is following Google in requiring addiction centers to be certified by LegitScript before they can run ad campaigns on the site. Good decision.
Also, Bing told the audience at SMX West that Bing Ads is moving away from keywords and towards intelligent audience marketing with its Microsoft Audience Ads program. It's no surprise that this includes tie-ins with LinkedIn profiles. Eric Enge has written up a great breakdown of their presentation.
There's more below, including an interesting indicator on local search and a YouTube-related Pro Tip from what was probably our most talked-about session from SMX West.
Go mobile.
Henry Powderly
VP, Content