Google has confirmed it fixed the ongoing issue with Google News indexing. This resulted in many publishers seeing massive traffic declines from Google News for a three-week period, starting around June 21st. The update. Google posted an update at 5:06 pm ET today, saying, âWe fixed the issue with News indexing. There will be no […]
A brand SERP is the results Google serves when a user searches for your brand name. A digital strategy is how a brand positions itself across the online ecosystem. I have been talking about brand SERPs since 2013. Iâve learned that a brand SERP isnât just a âpretty Google Business Card.â When you bake SEO […]
SEO conversions and tracking go well beyond a direct sale or lead in your pipeline. They can be: Newsletter and SMS subscribers that turn into sales. Win-back campaigns where customers havenât shopped yet or rediscovered you. Bringing job seekers to your job listing pages, resulting in lower costs of hiring new employees. If you only […]
One of the fastest developing and potentially essential shifts in search marketing is artificial intelligence (AI), specifically generative AI. Generative AI is poised to change the nature of the search engine results page (SERP). Thus, strategies for managing digital marketing campaigns must also evolve. We see it now with the new Bing, powered by ChatGPT, […]
Marketers have criticized Google Analytics 4 since it was released in late 2020. The list of complaints is long â from the move from user tracking to event tracking, to the missing standard reports, and the replacement of bounce rate with engagement rate, to name just a few. GA4 is the predominant platform for measuring website performance […]
Threads is implementing branded content tools to give marketers access to paid promotion opportunities. Metaâs new social platform doesnât serve ads yet. However, this feature will enable brands to explore the possibility of running influencer campaigns. Why we care. Meta is waiting until Threads reaches a critical mass before selling ad space, which is proving […]
Communicating with your customers across channels is crucial to providing positive experiences. However, often this means regularly replicating and syncing customer data across different systems in order to deliver differentiated and personalized campaigns. But with all of this data movement, you end up stuck with a version of (not so real) âreal-timeâ marketing data. The […]
Amazon Prime Day 2023 broke records to become the retailerâs most successful to date. The two-day event, which took place on July 11 and 12, saw year-on-year spending shoot up by 6.1% to $12.7 billion in the U.S., according to Adobe Analytics data. Prime members splashed out on more than 375 million products worldwide and saved […]
Repetitive advertising on streaming platforms can damage a brandâs reputation, according to a new study. Overexposure to the same ad campaigns was described as âannoyingâ and âdisruptiveâ by participants in a new joint study, conducted by IPGâs Magna unit and ad tech firm Nexxen, called Itâs All in the Delivery: How Repeating Ads Affect CTV […]
The boom of generative AI products over the past few months has prompted many websites to take countermeasures. The basic concern goes like this: AI products depend on consuming large volumes of content to train their language models (the so-called large language models, or LLMs for short), and this content has to come from somewhere. […]
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