Whether by choice or not isn’t clear, but competitors are sitting on the sidelines of “prime day” ad auctions. Amazon’s (two-day) Prime Day is underway, and we were curious how competing retailers and brands would challenge Amazon in the search results and try to capitalize on the rise in “prime day” queries. Turns out, on […]
Month: May 2020
Do you have new or updated content you want Bing to discover faster? Start using the new Bing URL Submission tool Bing announced a new URL submission tool at SMX West 2019. Last week at SMX West, Bing announced it is now allowing webmasters, publishers and site owners to submit 10,000 URLs per day to its search engine […]
Although the “privacy sandbox” from Google is likely to continue to evolve, the underlying concepts and objectives certainly reveal where it’s headed. With the Chrome announcement of a two-year target timeline to kill the third-party cookie, I thought it would be useful to help make sense of Chrome’s proposals to address advertising use cases without third-party cookies. The Context […]
“For businesses, the communication channels of email and phone are just becoming less and less effective,” says Scott Heimes, Chief Marketing Officer at Zipwhip. “Text is a great way to increase your engagement and responsiveness with consumers. They’ll actually respond to a text.” Scott Heimes, Chief Marketing Officer at Zipwhip, discusses how two-way text messaging can […]
Apple and Google have released their joint contact tracing API in 22 countries and several US states. Contact tracing is considered a key element in overcoming the coronavirus pandemic. Apple and Google have fought to create an API that is built around privacy first, emphasizing Bluetooth proximity signals, rather than location tracing. The system is decentralized, and […]
DING DING DING! Welcome back to the Main Event: Social political targeting. Last week, we uncovered how to reach politics and politicians with Facebook Targeting. In Round Two, we dive into Twitter psychographics to reach the political targeting ring, from the fans in the stands to third-party political targeting to politically curated lists. Political Behavior […]
SEO tips to fully optimize your Shopify site for higher rankings and more sales. Optimizing your Shopify store for Google, Bing and other search engines is critical for helping potential customers discover your site. Many of the tenets of search engine optimization (SEO) are based on providing users with a positive experience. The easier it […]
If phone calls are important to your business, having the right analytics on callers is critical to the success of your search marketing Data is everything to marketers. It’s how we measure performance across channels, make optimization decisions, and deliver the right experiences. The more accurate and complete the data marketers can action upon, the […]
We’ll discuss how everyone is doing/adapting to new circumstances, what experts are seeing and advising right now and about expectations and advice for the longer-term. On Wednesday, Search Engine Land Editor-in-Chief will host a discussion with experts in PPC for our third Live with Search Engine Land discussion. The conversation will focus largely on B2B […]
Bing Webmaster Tools will be fully revamped by July, Bing’s Fabrice Canel said at SMX London. Bing Webmaster Tools’ Submit URL, Block URL and Crawl Control features have been migrated to the new Bing Webmaster portal, the company announced Tuesday at SMX London. Users will be able to use the current and new pages simultaneously for a […]