Yesterday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted about all the things that Google is doing in response to the coronavirus outbreak. Among, them Google Search and Maps will show if a place or business is temporarily closed. This follows Google’s admonition a week ago to local businesses to update hours and other relevant information in Google…
DetailsAs the world health community continues to monitor closely the emergence of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), we are taking proactive steps to protect the safety and health of our employees, members, and visitors. From Monday, March 16 through Friday, April 3, the IAB offices will be closed and all IAB and IAB Tech Lab…
DetailsOn Jan. 31, US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar II, declared a public health emergency in response to the outbreak of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Consistent with the latest news from the CDC (as of this writing on March 11), which states, “This is an emerging, rapidly evolving situation,” many US…
DetailsAt one point or another, chances are you’ve turned to “Dr. Google” to shed some light around a health concern. Whether you’re trying to self-diagnose a medical condition or are just curious about a particular disease you heard on a show, we rely on Google to provide us with answers to our many health-related questions.…
DetailsThe President of the United States announced during a press conference Friday that the White House is partnering with Google to build a website to help people find a coronavirus testing site. The site will give users a symptoms testing quiz and then if the site determines you should be tested, it will direct you…
DetailsAt SMX West last month, Google a look at customer value reporting and value rules. The company first teased these features in the Google Ads UI at Google Marketing Live last year. They’re both still in beta but here’s what we know about how they’re designed to work. Customer value reporting. When it’s live in…
DetailsDigital Asset Management platforms, often called DAMs, are software programs that store, organize and enable the more efficient use of an organization’s entire library of digital assets. A DAM is the “single source of truth” where marketers can find every relevant version of the media assets that have been created for the brand — images,…
DetailsLast month I spoke at SMX West about managing product detail pages on e-commerce sites like Amazon, Walmart and others during the “SEO For E-commerce Category, Product Detail Pages” session. My co-presenter, Jill Kocher Brown, and I fielded a number of questions during the session. Here’s a few more I wanted to follow up on.…
DetailsWhat should businesses looking to hire an SEO expect to see during the proposal process? How much work should SEOs be expected to produce upfront to win the contract? Google’s recent video on hiring an SEO specialist has reignited the discussion around these questions. In the video, Google recommended that employers ask candidates to conduct…
DetailsHaven’t written for Search Engine Land in a while as I’ve been head down in-house, but in late December John Mueller asked on Twitter what the SEO community thinks of this Twitter comment that claims that the first two pages of Google’s search results are devoid of blogs and overoptimized and I wanted to take…
DetailsOne of the most tedious tasks when working with location-based keywords is removing the individual locations from the keywords at-scale. These are the location-based keyword terms such as “car dealership London.” Like with any tedious, repetitive task the developers at my agency created a Google Ads script to automate removing the locations from keywords within…
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