SEO 

Non-stop updates: SEOs share the impact on their day-to-day, work-life balance and career outlook

Stakeholder expectations seem more realistic as the industry has matured, but Google’s updates may be influencing career paths. This year, Google rolled out an unusually high number of updates. As a matter of fact, the company released a local search update as we conducted interviews for this article. Google updates can be frustrating for brands and businesses because they might negatively impact their visibility, ceding rankings to competitors and impacting traffic and/or revenue. The heightened frequency of updates this year may intensify that experience, which means that SEOs might also be under…

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SEM 

How to Build a Marketing System of Record

Learn how a Marketing System of Record can bring greater efficiency and consistency to creative work and marketing campaigns. Marketers ready to lead the comeback in 2021 need to innovate faster, and be able to quickly pivot budget, resources and plans when the company or strategic direction changes. With a Marketing System of Record, all work can be visible, trackable and actionable, allowing you to create end-to-end processes for any contingency. That way, when things change, your organization can change with it. Join our experts for this webinar as they demonstrate…

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SEO 

The enterprise business of SEO: Communicating to the C-suite

Learn how to effectively engage with your organization’s leaders and help them understand the incremental value of organic search. Change is the only constant in SEO. At the moment, change is the only constant in the economy. Adapting to SEO shifts, reduced paid spending, and the general consensus of having to do more with less have hit marketers hard. As C-suite members look to reduce costs and improve efficiencies, SEO has risen to become an essential boardroom agenda item. SEO is impacting website performance across every type of industry. It provides…

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Marketing 

Google’s Local Services Ads platform has a problem with spam

Fake business names, virtual offices, multiple rankings… Google has a spam issue with LSAs and getting it fixed is easier said than done. There is (or will soon be) a Google Local Services Ads spam problem coming to a town near you. I primarily run Local Services Ads for personal injury law firms, and most of the problems I’m encountering are in California. Admittedly, I can’t speak for every vertical or geographic region. But what follows are some of the LSA spam issues – and how Google might remedy them. How much spam…

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Bing 

Bing Admits They Need To Do Better With Webmaster Communication

In a blog post today on the Bing Webmaster Blog, Bing’s Igor Rondel, Principal Development Manager of the Index Quality team, said you can expect Bing to do more proactive communication on the Bing Webmaster Blog in the future. Igor said Bing needs “to do a better job of proactively communicating updates” and they realize […] In a blog post today on the Bing Webmaster Blog, Bing’s Igor Rondel, Principal Development Manager of the Index Quality team, said you can expect Bing to do more proactive communication on the Bing Webmaster Blog in the…

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google 

Google Chrome adds 3 site search shortcuts

Adding @bookmarks, @history or @tabs into your Chrome address bar should help speed up your searches in these categories. Google Chrome is adding shortcuts to the address bar on desktop that will help you search through your bookmarks, history and tabs. Why we care. Search marketers do a lot of searching – and I’m pretty sure in our profession it’s illegal not to have dozens (hundreds?) of tabs open at a time. These additions to Google Chrome hopefully will make it a bit easier for you to search directly for the…

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Social 

Report: Insights into the Tik Tok Audience

This report explores how users interact with TikTok and what this means for brands who want to reach them. Five years after it first launched, the video sharing-focused social network TikTok has taken the world by storm. Downloaded more than 2 billion times by users in 150 countries, people have flocked to the mobile app which presents them with a stream of algorithmically selected short videos filled with music, dancing, cooking demos, and other short bits of user-created entertainment. For this report, DISQO surveyed 39,452 adult consumers in the United…

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SEO 

Programmatic SEO: Your missing link to 1M+ sessions

Here’s what you need to know about programmatic SEO and how to start publishing unique, high-quality pages at scale the right way. It’s time to rethink SEO growth. Not every strategy needs to start with a blog post regurgitating the same information across the top Google results and end with an agency begging for links. In the era of Google Ads becoming more expensive and organic discoverability becoming less effective, companies need to differentiate themselves in SEO. We must push the envelope and create something that has yet to be…

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SEM 

Airbnb’s search marketing shift: Should advertisers follow suit?

With CPCs rising across performance media channels, is it worth following Airbnb’s shift from PPC to brand marketing? Here’s what to consider. A recent Wall Street Journal article reported that Airbnb’s “strategy of slashing advertising spending, investing in brand marketing and lessening its reliance on search-engine marketing is continuing to pay off.” This remark has sparked discussions among many advertisers, wondering if a similar strategy may work for them. In 2019, Airbnb started to move budget away from search marketing in favor of broader marketing initiatives. The pandemic accelerated the shift, with…

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Latest News 

Apple Music Sing Brings Karaoke to Apple Music

Karaoke fans are in for a treat, thanks to a new feature Apple is introducing called Apple Music Sing. Apple Music has had lyrics support for some time, but Apple Music Sing will take it to the next level with adjustable vocals, real-time lyrics, background vocals, and duet view. “Apple Music’s lyrics experience is consistently one of the most popular features on our service,” said Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of Apple Music and Beats. “We already know our users all over the world love to follow along to their favorite…

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