Display advertising is a powerful tool for marketers when used at its full potential. Preparing and launching a new display ad campaign is not necessarily equivalent to setting it up for success. To set it on the right path, one must also engage in the practice known as ad campaign optimization. In a nutshell, this […]
Think LinkedIn is just for business networking and job hunting? Think again. The platform is a great destination for both of those things, no question, but it’s also a smart place to focus at least some of your content marketing efforts. Why? LinkedIn enjoys a wider audience than you might think, with 66.8 million monthly […]
Search Engine Land celebrates its Sweet 16 today. While most of the original team from 2006 has moved on, the mission of Search Engine Land remains nearly the same as it has been since day 1. As explained by founding editor Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land was created to be: A place where you can […]
Google Search Console is experimenting with a new feature named “content ideas.” Content ideas give the content creator, publisher, SEO, webmaster, etc., some tips and advice on what new topics they can write about on their site. Experimental feature. This feature is not live for me in my verified Search Console profiles, but Nicolas Ockier […]
I recently read Ziemek Bucko’s fascinating article, Rendering Queue: Google Needs 9X More Time To Crawl JS Than HTML, on the Onely blog. Bucko described a test they did showing significant delays by Googlebot following links in JavaScript-reliant pages compared to links in plain-text HTML. While it isn’t a good idea to rely on only […]
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 […]
You’re not measuring the impact of your content Knowing how to measure content marketing is the first obstacle in effective budgeting and resourcing. The widely-adopted industry approach often follows this playbook: 1) choose a format 2) pick your channel, and 3) decide how you want to measure your content. However, there is no general consensus […]
Publishers using the Subscribe with Google feature may see an increase in the reported clicks and impressions within the Google Search Console search performance report. This started around December 6, 2022. Google’s announcement. Google posted that on December 6, 2022, “Google created an additional search result feature for sites that use Subscribe with Google. As […]
When Google launched a new spam update at the end of 2022, complaints poured in as webmasters were caught off-guard. Why are people still using outdated SEO tactics like “keyword stuffing”? Here’s what else you may have done wrong and how you can practice actual SEO that benefits real-world users. Seriously? Is keyword stuffing still […]
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