In April 2019, Google was experimenting with a new local SERP that highlighted alternative directory sources for the same query. At the time, we saw an example in the wild for Germany. Now, an updated version of the SERP featuring branded directory buttons appears to be live in the UK, Belgium, Spain, Greece, and France…
DetailsSAN JOSE – With more advertisers and bigger budgets crowding onto Facebook and Instagram, acquisition costs are climbing. Advertisers can make their social ad dollars go further by re-thinking campaign fundamentals. “You need to make sure you’re scaling your available inventory for click-through rates, mirroring your audience, and being dynamic,” 3Q Digital’s Senior Strategy Development manager…
DetailsGoogle’s done it again. Not content with making exact match keywords anything but exact, they’ve extended “same meaning” close variants to phrase and broad match modifier keywords. Not only are plurals, stemmings, misspellings and changes to word order all fair game for your keywords, now implied words and synonyms in search terms will also trigger…
DetailsGoogle has launched a new structured data element for image license metadata that allows Google Images to show a licensable image label in the search results. The CEPIC, the European picture agency, wrote about this on its blog saying “We are happy to share now that Google Images is releasing a metadata framework through Schema.org…
Details“You can view the rater guidelines as where we want the search algorithm to go,” Ben Gomes, head of search for Google, once explained to CNBC. Gomes’ statement highlights the document’s relationship with Google’s algorithm, yet despite its relevance for publishers and SEOs, the quality rater guidelines (QRG) remain an intimidating resource for many digital…
DetailsSAN JOSE – The rise of digital commerce is causing a sort of “renaissance” in today’s largest digital marketplaces, Search Engine Land Editor-in-Chief Ginny Marvin said Wednesday during her keynote at SMX West. This rebirth is driven by retailers that, seeing the monumental growth of Amazon, are seeking out richer ways to integrate and monetize…
DetailsSAN JOSE – Eighty-one percent of current Amazon advertisers plan to increase their ad spend on the platform in the coming year, according to a Marketing Land survey of digital advertisers released Wednesday. Of those planning to increase their Amazon ad budgets, 41% said they plan to spend as much as 25% more than the…
DetailsRoadmapping 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…
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