Roadmapping season is upon us and, if you’re an in-house SEO like me, that means it’s time to set your FY20 goals for the SEO channel. To set realistic goals, we first need to understand how much traffic we can reasonably drive from SEO this year. To figure this out, we must first answer a…
DetailsWhat we may not realize starting out in our search marketing career is that the path we choose can quickly become our identity – and with it, shape our mindset. We choose our worldview and its invisible hand leads us along our career path. It may even affect our mental health because we’re constantly pushing…
DetailsGoogle has added a feature to make it faster to share audiences within manager accounts. What’s new? There is now a manager account-level setting called “Continous audience sharing” that will enable you to share all available audience lists in the manager account with all of its sub-accounts. Google said an option to share lists created…
DetailsThe dust has settled on another holiday shopping season, and now it’s time to evaluate and analyze what went right for advertisers. As usual, brands and agencies turned to the tried and true ad channels — paid search, display, social, native, the list goes on — to (hopefully) drive as many shoppers to convert as…
DetailsAt the end of this week’s SMX West conference in San Jose, I’m leaving Third Door Media. This is a positive move, and I’m looking forward to TDM’s continued growth and success during the coming years. This journey started when I first met Danny Sullivan in 1998, at the Internet Librarian conference in San Diego.…
DetailsGoogle is testing more granular options for tracking website conversion actions in Google Ads. The new options were spotted by Yatin Mulay of Zen Online Marketing. It’s not clear how widespread this is, but we’re seeing the set of options that Mulay shared in some accounts as well. @GoogleAds testing much more granular conversion categories.…
DetailsHow do you create omnichannel experiences that align best with your audience to meet them where they actually are, not where you intend for them to be? And how do you, as a marketer, keep pace with your organization’s growing volume of consumer data touchpoints and increasingly complex martech stack? Join our journey orchestration and…
Details“We strongly recommend that any user who can edit campaigns should be certified,” Google. There is a lot about the coming changes to the Google Partners program eligibility requirements that agencies aren’t happy about. Among them, the requirement that at least 50% of the eligible users listed in their manager accounts will need to earn…
DetailsJanuary 2020 felt like a turning point. CCPA went into effect, Google Chrome became the latest browser to commit to a cookie-less future and, after months of analytics folks sounding the alarm, digital marketers sobered to a vision of the future that looks quite different than today. This article is not a complete history of…
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