New data shows that e-commerce sites doubled their advertising spend between mid-February and the second week of March, as social distancing started to become the new norm for consumers. Multi-channel ad spend. E-commerce ad spending jumped from $4.8 million the week of February 17 to $9.6 million the week of March 9. The data, released…
DetailsGoogle has apparently disabled local reviews functionality — both for consumers and business owners. SterlingSky’s Jason Brown first flagged this issue on Friday. Joy Hawkins, also of SterlingSky, added, “Any review responses posted right now aren’t publishing live. Same thing with leaving new reviews. None of the reviews I left 5 min ago are publishing.”…
DetailsBing has launched a new portal for the indexing API and content submission API. Announced Friday, the new portal can be found at https://www.bing.com/webmasters/url-submission-api. The portal. The portal educates developers, web site owners and SEOs about these two APIs that Bing has been pushing for the past year or so. The portal provides an overview…
DetailsThe right-sidebar featured snippet variant of Google search results has been migrated into the main results column, a Google spokesperson has confirmed. This change is the part of Google’s featured snippet deduplication, which began on January 22. Mordy Oberstein, CMO of RankRanger, spotted the update had rolled out Thursday. Google formerly showed featured snippets in…
DetailsYelp is seeing a sudden and massive shift in demand among consumers engaging with local businesses on its platform, according to the company’s internal data. The coronavirus represents a kind of existential threat to a substantial number of small businesses, as more cities issue “stay at home” orders. Yelp’s relief package for bars and restaurants.…
DetailsWho cares about SEO during a global pandemic? People are dying and all people want to read about is COVID-19 and what’s going on with the economy. Right? Yes, in a sense. But it’s a shame because SEO did not stop being relevant when the virus appeared. And if you’re a publisher writing about the…
DetailsWorldwide ad spending is still expected to grow compared to last year, says research firm eMarketer, but it has lowered its growth projections by nearly 3%. Worldwide media ad spend will increase by 7.0% to $691.7 billion in 2020 over the prior year, down from the earlier growth estimate of 7.4% to $712.02 billion. The…
DetailsEarlier this week Nextdoor introduced two new features, both of which are intended to support members during the coronavirus crisis. The first is Nextdoor Groups; the second is Help Map, which allows people in an area to indicate whether they need help or whether they’re available to help others who may need it. Coronavirus driving…
DetailsWith the search marketing community largely holed up in home offices as the country tries to flatten the coronavirus curve, Search Engine Land has decided to dip our toes into the world of online meetups. This Monday, Search Engine Land’s Barry Schwartz will host a live video hangout with personalities within the SEO community including:…
DetailsToday, the Maryland General Assembly ignored the pleas of the Maryland business community by passing a tax on digital advertising. During this unprecedented time of uncertainty, when Maryland businesses of all sizes are already being forced to make hard decisions involving lay-offs and shedding essential operations, the Maryland Legislature has added insult to injury by…
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