With local business reviews influencing click-throughs from search (and possibly even local rankings themselves), columnist Brian Patterson notes that large businesses with many locations need to have a strategy for obtaining and managing reviews. Reviews are an undeniable internet phenomenon. A short 20 years ago, our opinions of businesses were based on advertising, our own experiences […]
Month: September 2023
The updated financial product and services policy will take effect in June. In another blow to cryptocurrency marketers, Bing Ads is banning ads promoting cryptocurrency sales, offerings and related products. Facebook, Google and Twitter banned cryptocurrency ads earlier this year. “Because cryptocurrency and related products are not regulated, we have found them to present a possible elevated risk to […]
After 69 days of it not working, it is now back up and running. Google has reenabled the request indexing tool, within the URL Inspection tool in Google Search Console. The tool was disabled on October 14, 2020 – 69 days ago – and it was expected to come back before the holiday shopping season. That came […]
A brief history of the many privacy disasters at the world’s dominant social media platform, and what the most recent data exposure means for marketers, and other data Borg as Facebook’s CEO faces Congress. Facebook’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, spent nearly five hours Tuesday answering questions from over 40 members of the US Senate […]
Columnist Jeremy Knauff shares his vision for how to improve the SEO industry through transparency, knowledge-sharing and stronger relationships with clients. As SEO professionals, we’re expected to have a solid understanding of our trade and to be able to communicate our knowledge clearly and professionally with our clients. But I think our expectations should be […]
While many companies focus on return on ad spend (ROAS) as their primary KPI for search, columnist Andreas Reiffen believes that ROAS targets can often inhibit growth and new customer acquisition. Your marketing team is hard at work tweaking ads and landing pages to drive efficiency and hit the targets set for them by the […]
The city of San Francisco pulled out all the stops in its efforts to impress Dreamforce attendees and appears to have succeeded. In the lead up to Salesforce’s signature conference, CEO Marc Benioff had warned this year’s event could be the last in the city if homelessness or drug use posed a threat or issue for attendees. […]
Apple places URLs appear to be for the purpose of sharing with non-Apple users. Apple is apparently now publishing public place pages for selected landmarks, according to a post on 9to5Mac. Below is an example (via Allan Miller): If you’ve got the latest MacOS update, “Sierra,” installed, you can access these pages from the Safari toolbar. On “El Capitan,” a […]
Today at SMX Advanced, Bing has launched a revamped version of their webmaster tools product, with a new user interface and improved features. Much of the changes are just sprucing up existing data (showing better summaries/dashboards and the like), but of particular interest to some is the new Link Explorer, which is a partial replacement […]
Multiple indicators suggest Apple may be stepping up its search efforts. Part of Google’s mobile search success relies on the fact that it’s the default search engine for the iPhone. The company has paid billions for that privilege over the years. But there’s evidence that Apple might be building a search engine to take on Google – […]