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Month: December 2022

Maximize your search marketing budget with first-party conversation data

Learn how to use this untapped data source and maximize every dollar spent. Although we are all somewhat uncertain about the economy, marketers are still bullish on 2023. After recovering from the pandemic shutdowns and cutting back on budgets, growth is still predicted for next year. That growth may not be exponential, though. Because of […]

At Five Years Old, Bing Has Come Far Yet Has More To Grow

Microsoft’s Bing search engine has turned five this week. There are good reasons for some birthday celebrations at Microsoft. The company has created a solid competitor to Google, grown its market share and created a search platform for other Microsoft products. But when it comes to mindshare, Bing is still far behind rivaling Google as […]

Google’s helpful content update: What should we expect?

SEOs may be in for another shakeup similar to Penguin’s launch 10 years ago. Here’s what you need to know about Google’s new update. The new helpful content update sounds like a big deal. Google has given us a list of questions to consider to determine whether our sites are designed to help people, or rather, created […]

Here’s What Twitter Should Do To Make Photo Galleries More Useful

I like the new user photo galleries that Twitter started rolling out yesterday. They’ll make photo search and discovery much easier, especially for those of us who’ve scattered our photo uploads across TwitPic, yFrog, Mobypicture and other photo services. But I’m also hoping that the product Twitter launched yesterday is a shell of what it’ll […]

How customer reviews can improve your SEO efforts

Customer reviews aren’t just for show. At SMX Next, Kyra Sammis explains how marketers can use reviews to improve SEO. Customer reviews aren’t just trust signals for your customers — they can also provide potential SEO ranking boosts when used effectively. “They [reviews] build trust in your brand,” said Kyra Sammis, customer success manager at […]

Video: Anthony Church on conversion tracking & SEO

We are not only in the SEO industry, we both went to the same university — go figure! In this vlog series, I met with Anthony Church, VP of client services at Interact Marketing; he works for Joe Beccalori, who I interviewed before. Anthony and I went to the same university, Baruch College, City University of New […]

Top 5 search marketing trends and 3 must-haves for 2023

Here’s a look at significant search, digital marketing and consumer trends, along with the must-haves for digital marketers in 2023. As we prepare to say goodbye to 2022 and welcome 2023, it’s a great time to review notable changes to search and consumer behaviors and plan our key digital marketing initiatives for next year. In […]

Google to test AR prototype glasses, lenses for visual search and more

Is this the second generation of Google Glass, how will this change the future of search and marketing? Google will soon begin testing new AR prototypes in public settings worn or used by Googlers and trusted testers starting next month, the company announced. The applications for use include navigation, translation, transcription and visual search. AR prototypes. Google […]

Bing Adds School Ratings To Search Results

Microsoft Bing has announced they’ve added a new feature to the school snapshot boxes on the right hand panel — the school’s rating. They’ve added school ratings, rankings and academic indicators directly in Bing Snapshot. Microsoft says this works for searching for schools from elementary to high school to higher education. Bing displays how they […]