20201118 SEL Brief
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DetailsGoogle’s new Small Business Advisors program aims to help SMBs grow
Google has beta-launched a program for small businesses (SMBs) to help them become better marketers on Google. Called Small Business Advisors (SBA), the program offers 50-minute individualized consulting sessions on a range of products from Google My Business to Ads and Analytics to YouTube. No enterprises or agencies. Google told me in an email that…
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Google’s Auto Applied Recommendations catch advertisers, agencies off guard
In January 2019, Google notified advertisers and agencies about a new program in which Google Ads would automatically make changes in ad accounts — unless the advertisers opted-out of the pilot program. It caused a big stir, but then nothing much seemed to happen. Then on Friday, I heard from Lior Krolewicz of Yael Consulting…
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Google migrates the disavow link tool to new Search Console
A year after officially closing down the old version of Google Search Console, Google announced that it has migrated the disavow link tool from the old Search Console to the new Search Console. Where is the disavow link tool? The new location for the disavow link tool is now at https://search.google.com/search-console/disavow-links. Previously it was located…
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How to check Google search results for different locations
It’s no secret that the same query will often produce different Google search results in different locations. Someone looking to “buy a bike” in Atlanta will see different suggestions than someone using the same query in New York. And two people looking for a “pizza place” might end up with different results if they are…
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DetailsGoogle Ads wants advertisers to give broad match another shot
Google is going to start showing new Recommendations for switching to broad match in Google Ads. “If you’re using Smart Bidding, we’ll identify existing keywords that are likely to improve performance if you switch them to broad match,” Google said in a blog post Monday. For example, says Google, the broad match keyword “women’s hats”…
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The future of search marketing: Where do we go from here?
As we speed towards the end of yet another an absolutely unparalleled year, search marketers like you are reflecting on what’s changed and preparing for what comes next… Constant evolution of SERPs Critical skills for future SEO success Growing importance of structured data New opportunities with marketing and artificial intelligence Endless Google platform and algorithm…
DetailsVideo: Michael Lewittes on growing a site after an algorithm update
Michael Lewittes, a veteran entertainment journalist who worked at numerous large media outlets, started his entertainment news site Gossip Cop and later sold it to a private equity firm at the top of the site’s performance. We discussed how he did it and how he managed to work through numerous Google search algorithm updates —…
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Why empathy is about meeting the customer on their terms
It may be a hard truth for us best-intentioned marketers to swallow, but two-thirds of customers believe that marketers do not care about their needs. That’s according to a survey of 5,000 individuals by Pega. And when you look at what marketers face, it is easy to see how that kind of sentiment takes root.…
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