SEO

What is the greatest skill in SEO? If you believe this tweet, it’s patience. Although patience is a great answer, I would never say there is a “greatest” SEO skill. Why? Because SEO requires various hard skills (things you can learn or be taught) and soft skills (how you work and interact with others) to

Google advertisers can now advertise on podcasts. Yep, announced today, “advertisers can now align their ads with podcast content globally. Simply create an audio or video campaign and select “Podcast” as a placement.” Why we care. Last month we reported on three new audio, shopping, and streaming features available to YouTube advertisers. Today advertisers can

The new trim video tool from YouTube turns your videos into 6-second videos that you can use for bumper ads. How convenient! Machine learning strikes again. The new tool is now available globally in Google Ads, making it easy for advertisers to create bumper ads. The tool is powered by a machine learning model that

Exceeding analyst expectations, LinkedIn revenue grew 17% and search and news advertising revenues grew 16%. LinkedIn growth is thanks to strength in the talent solutions side of the business. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says there are now more than 150 million subscriptions to newsletters on LinkedIn. Gaining an Edge. The search and advertising bump was

The new ad creation process has advertisers first enter an objective; either reach, engage, or maximize sales. That first initial choice informs the available options and recommendations made downstream in the campaign creation. Instacart says that “by minimizing the choices you have to make when creating campaigns this new framework streamlines the process. It also

The Google October 2022 spam update that started to roll out on October 19, 2022, at around 11 am ET, is now complete less than 48 hours after it began. The update finished rolling out on October 21, 2022, at around 5 am ET. The announcement. Google quietly updated the search updates page adding “Released

All clients review agencies for “fit.” They line up the RFP cattle call, or back-to-back meetings between a handful of agencies to contrast and compare. However, almost zero agencies review clients in return. Instead, they’re too eager, living hand to mouth, to take on all clients at all times as long as they have a

In this in-depth report, Shopper Approved covers the many forms of USC and its benefits, the various tools to generate and distribute UGC, and how it works to improve online visibility in search results. See why Google and shoppers prefer the authenticity and trustworthiness of UGC. And why it improves SEO and conversions rates, including:

Digital content creation and management have never been more complicated. These workflows now need to accommodate remote workers and resources, worldwide offices, and security and privacy concerns, not to mention the growing need for content and creative teams to produce more content in less time. So how are the most successful content and creative teams

Keyword cannibalization can occur when multiple URLs on your site rank for the same keyword. This can become a problem for your website if you have multiple pages competing for the same keyword and one or more of your pages are underperforming. If you’re concerned your website is experiencing harmful keyword cannibalization, don’t panic! Join

TikTok announced a new campaign type for brands to further enhance their performance in the app. The new solution is called Smart Performance Campaigns. Sounds familiar. If the new campaign type sounds familiar, it might be because it’s almost identical to Google’s smart and Performance Max campaign types which require advertisers to put their full

YouTube has just announced three new features for advertisers to reach people where and when they’re watching the most. The three new features are spread across shopping, audio, and streaming in what YouTube calls the YouTube Effect (the unique dynamic between YouTube creators and viewers). Moment Blast Moment Blast gives advertisers prime positioning on YouTube Select content

A handful of powerful targeting features will be removed in early 2023 according to a Google Ads help article. The help article, “Optimize your Video campaign for more conversions” contains a content targeting section that recommends avoiding the addition of content targeting (by keywords, topics or placements) in campaigns. Furthermore, the article mentions that in

Google is rolling out a new search ad label, replacing the black “Ad” label with a new bold black text “Sponsored” label. This is rolling out in conjunction with the new site names and larger favicons in the mobile search results, Google announced. What is looks like. Here is a screenshot of the new bold

Google is now rolling out what it calls “site names” in the mobile search results. Site names more prominently show the name of the website, as opposed to just the URL, at the top of the snippet. With the site name, Google also announced the size and shape of the favicon will be displayed next

With customers’ increasing demands and expectations, marketers strive to improve the timing and impact and ROI of customer engagements. Achieving this vision remains an uphill battle challenged by the growing number of marketing technologies that generate data silos and complex customer journeys. Marketers work tirelessly with fragmented data sources without a single source of truth.

To achieve the most ROI from your customer data, you need a strong foundation. Creating a precise golden record for each consumer with enriched data, a full contact graph and a full identity graph provides the context your brand needs to differentiate based on CX. Precise data includes both first-party data as well as third-party

Alexa users are suing Amazon over claims that the voice assistant app is targeting users with ads relevant to private recordings of users’ conversations. The central complaint. The main complaint of Alexa users is that the voice assistant is wrongly using voice recordings captured by Alexa to target ads. “The central theory of this lawsuit