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Understanding the metrics provided under Google’s Auction Insights and visualizing the data can help you get a clearer view of your account's performance. In this episode, James Hebdon, co-founder and CTO of Paid Search Magic shares his techniques for using Google Sheets and Scripts to transform the information from Google Ads’ Auction Insights into something that’s easier to understand, and is more useful and more compelling to your boss or clients. If you enjoyed this SMX replay, consider checking out our other episodes on improving your YouTube ad performance, using data storytelling to gain top-tier media coverage, SEO that Google tries to fix for you and much more. You can find them on the Marketing Land SoundCloud stream or by heading to www.searchengineland.com and searching "SMX replay."

Making sure that your brand is at every turn of the customers’ path to purchase can help you guide their journey, no matter what stage of the funnel they’re in. Helen Provost, account manager at Google, discusses using YouTube ads in tandem with Google search ads to generate more awareness for your brand and serve the full funnel as well as how to take advantage of Google’s automated offerings to compliment your campaigns.

Your audits and analyses are only as good as your ability to communicate them to management, stakeholders and clients. At SMX Advanced, Sam Marsden, SEO and content manager at DeepCrawl, explained how visualizing data can break down silos and help us, our colleagues and clients make informed decisions faster.

Patrick Stox, SEO specialist at IBM, says the importance of technical SEO may diminish over time, reasoning that, "The more stuff that Google fixes, the more stuff that Bing fixes on their end, the less things we actually have to worry about." Here's Stox's Insights session from SMX Advanced, in which he explains the parts of technical SEO that Google may have already figured out for you.

Amanda Milligan of Fractl discusses the factors that can make your data-driven content more appealing to prominent media outlets as well as industry-leading publications.

SMXcast: Tactics to improve your YouTube video ad performance Ashley Mo discusses how to run video and search ads together to increase conversions.

Interview with Frederick Vallaeys on his new book Digital Marketing In An AI World, Futureproofing your PPC Agency, for Search Engine Land. A discussion about what the rise of machine learning and automation means for paid search marketers and agencies. What you need to know to prepare for success.

In this week's podcast, our outgoing co-founder Danny Sullivan talks about the beginnings of his career documenting the search marketing industry, how SEO has evolved and why he's stepping away now.

In this week's show, ChannelAdvisor's Scot Wingo says the enormous opportunity of online grocery is why the world's top e-commerce company is spending billions on a grocery store chain.

In this week's show, our crew explains and analyzes what Apple announced this week about ad targeting and autoplay blocking in Safari, the new HomePod device and more.

In this week's show, our "Path to CMO" series continues as we visit with SAP Ariba's Alicia Tillman to learn about her marketing career and ... selling tickets to a beach?

In this week's episode, Scott Brinker and Anand Thaker take us through the process of creating this year's martech landscape and, more importantly, what it means for the industry.

In this week's episode, we recap some of the bigger news and announcements from Google I/O 2017, with audio from the company's main keynote on Wednesday.

In this week's podcast, we discuss Google's efforts to combat hyperpartisan and extremist content, fake news and misinformation on YouTube and in its search results.

The Marketing Land crew is back from F8, and this week we talk about the biggest news, the most under-the-radar news and more from Facebook's annual developer event.