If writing isn’t your forte, good news: Content marketing isn’t limited to written formats. Any type of content that your audience can consume, learn from, and enjoy is fair game. And that includes podcasts. Podcasting is a popular and fast-growing medium – 79% of Americans aged 12 and up are familiar with podcasting, and 62% […]
With growing privacy concerns, consumers are rethinking what data they’re willing to give to brands, and over 80% of CMOs say privacy has changed their perception of personalization. Join the webinar featuring BlueConic’s Khurram Moiz, principal customer success manager, and special guest, Forrester Senior Analyst, Jessica Liu, as they discuss the state of consumer personalization […]
Google AMP stories launch In 2018, Google launched a new, visually rich mobile content format designed to generate more engagement from users. Breaking with previous guidance, Google didn’t intend for this type of AMP content to match your non-mobile content. Instead, this mobile-only content was supposed to be unique. Specifically, Google said AMP Story content […]
Google penalizes JCPenney for link scheme In 2011, JCPenney was caught engaging in link schemes and, as a result, found itself on the receiving end of a Google penalty. The New York Times was apparently perplexed by how well jcpenney.com ranked in organic search for practically everything the retailer sold. So they asked someone familiar […]
Yahoo officially rejects Microsoft In 2008, rumor became reality as Yahoo rejected Microsoft’s $45 billion bid to buy Yahoo. The company concluded that the proposal substantially undervalued Yahoo and was not in the best interests of Yahoo and its stockholders. Microsoft basically rejected Yahoo’s rejection, calling it “unfortunate” and pledging to “pursue all necessary steps” […]
Google is updating Lighthouse 10 to remove one of the overall Core Web Vital metrics, Time To Interactive (TTI) from its tool. Google will be assigning the TTI weight to Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), which will give CLS a total of 25% of the overall performance score. TTI is not a core web vital metric […]
Google will begin to accept and run ads for online horse racing in the following states: Maryland Pennsylvania West Virginia Virginia The Google Ads Gambling and games policy for United States country-specifics will be updated in February 2023. Advertisers must apply for certification. Application for certification will be open to advertisers who wish to promote online gambling content […]
SMX Advanced, the premier conference for experienced senior-level search marketers, returns online June 13-14. It’s certainly an exciting time for search. With Google announcing Bard and Bing’s new AI-powered search engine, we are on the verge of tremendous change that will have a huge effect on organic and paid search, but also on how we […]
ChatGPT is top of mind for many people in the content creation and SEO spaces – and even seems to be a developing obsession inspiration to Google itself. The biggest question for SEOs and people trying to create content to drive traffic from search engines is obviously: How can ChatGPT help create content for SEO? […]
A big part of my job is educating search marketers on the potential to drive growth with affiliate marketing. I come up against frequent misconceptions you may carry yourself: Affiliate cannibalizes attribution. Affiliate steals clicks from brand properties and drives up CPC. Affiliate coupons cut into margin without adding incremental value. If any of those […]
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