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This day in search marketing history: February 20

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Google introduced the news meta keywords tag specifically for publishers in 2012. Advertisers can now view Google mobile speed scores for more landing pages 2019: Google Ads tweaked its mobile speed score algorithm to reduce the number of ad clicks needed to generate a result. Google Shopping Tops Amazon Product Ads: 32.7%

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This day in search marketing history: February 6

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This major update was designed to simplify campaign management across multiple devices and increase adoption rates of mobile advertising among small and medium-sized businesses. Advertisers would set a baseline bid that applied to both desktop and tablet, and then set the mobile bid as a multiplier of the desktop/tablet bid.

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This day in search marketing history: January 18

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In 2012, when you visited Google, you saw this: That’s how Google voiced its opposition to two bills being discussed in Congress – the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA ). 2022: Shopify merchants could use the app to optimize their products and posts to show in organic, non-shopping results. businesses.

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This day in search marketing history: February 2

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Those changes were supposed to happen in June 2020 but were first postponed until 2021 and then delayed a second time due to the upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic and shelter-in-place orders. billion came from Google advertising. Read all about it in Google finally launches revamped Partners program. Of that, $61.2

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How entity-based strategies can contribute to PPC success

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While the concept of entities for SEO has been around since 2012, it hasn’t been a widely adopted in PPC. Entities are essentially unique people, places, things or concepts that provide context and relationships for keywords. Entity relevance: How does my product/service relate to these activities as entities? See terms.

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This day in search marketing history: February 15

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Snapchat introduces attributable mid-roll ads for Snap Stories 2022: The ad product was in closed beta. Product card buttons pop up on desktop search 2019: Google Shopping product panel adds for “details”, “reviews” and “stores” options. Google was investigating the issue. Hearst Corp.,

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This day in search marketing history: February 21

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Google Places Quality Guidelines Updated 2014: Google would allow a single descriptor within the business name, if and only if that descriptor was location information or described business offers. Scroogle.org Is Gone Forever” Says Site Owner 2012: Related coverage: Scroogle’s Gone? Is Google Ignoring The HTML Title Tag More Often?