Chumney Ads Offers Google Performance Max

With all the ways auto shoppers can purchase their next vehicle, your inventory needs to get in front of as many customers as possible. Enter Google Performance Max. This new goal-based campaign expands across all of Google’s channels – YouTube, Display, Search, Discover, Gmail, Maps, and Business Profile – and provides several benefits. You’ll appear in all of Google’s ad …

Benefits of video in your social media strategy

The Benefits of Video in Your Social Media Strategy

The numbers are in, and they show that the amount of time adults use social media across all platforms has reached an all-time high of 95 minutes per day. Of that time spent on those platforms, videos are quickly becoming the most consumed form of content. Marketing campaigns that include videos on social media platforms have 34% higher conversion rates, and …

3 Things to Know About Google’s ‘Content Update’

As Google Search continues to evolve to provide users with the most relevant results, Chumney & Associates always takes Google’s insights to heart and adjusts our methods to follow its suggestions for best practices. Google Search recently released what it calls a “helpful content update” to outline its efforts to make sure users find real content created by real people …

Making Google’s Front Page

What started out as a local SEO content page about the 2020 Ford Bronco release for our client Bill Currie Ford ended up ranking on a national level. When searching for “new 2020 Ford Bronco,” the page we produced for this client landed near the top of the national organic search results. Our SEO Approach One of our main approaches …

Facebook Releases Updated Automotive Playbook for Dealers

Facebook Releases Updated Automotive Playbook for Dealers

Facebook has updated its Automotive Playbook for Dealers for 2020, and it’s now available as a free download. The social media giant boasts 1.66 billion daily global visitors and offers several different ways to reach shoppers. Facebook Pages Business Manager Ads Manager Facebook Pixel Vehicle Catalog According to a Facebook-commissioned survey, 80% of recent vehicle buyers said they visited a …

Chumney & Associates Wins 2019 Readers’ Choice Award

Chumney & Associates is thrilled to announce that we won FindBestSEO.com’s 2019 Readers’ Choice Award! FindBestSEO describes its award as one “that encourages online communities to recognize the achievements of digital marketing agencies that are leading the way and demonstrate a creative and innovative approach to search and digital marketing.” We are extremely honored to know that our community — …

Google BERT algortithm

Breaking Down Google’s New BERT Algorithm

On October 25, Google began implementing its biggest update in years, known as BERT – Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers. The update is a big leap forward in the Google AI being able to interpret user intent, especially with voice searches, and it’s expected to affect 10% of queries. Here’s how Google explained it: “These improvements are oriented around improving …

interpreting your paid search metrics

Interpreting Your Paid Search Metrics Without ‘Average Position’

Average position is one of Google’s original search metrics, and up to this point it’s been the clearest way to describe the order of appearance in paid search results.  While ads are generally found above organic search results, that’s not always the case; they’re sometimes served at the very bottom of page 1, below organic!  When you consider that average …