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This day in search marketing history: February 25

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SEOs upset over Google dropping attribution in featured snippets In 2019, SEOs were not happy about a Google featured snippet format that didn’t immediately show the source of the content. “We don’t thrive & users don’t thrive unless the ecosystem thrives.”

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This day in search marketing history: January 14

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2016: Google documented the attraction with tiny Street View cars as though it were a real place. 2014: Thousands of hotels listed within Google+ Local appeared to have had links leading to their official sites “hijacked” and replaced with ones leading to third-party booking services. 2014: The feature wasn’t new.

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This day in search marketing history: February 5

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Moz upgrades its Domain Authority metric In 2019, SEO tool Moz announced an update to how they measured Domain Authority (DA). I bolded that part above because the DA metric has caused confusion within the SEO industry, as many have basically assigned it value as a meaningful SEO metric, akin to the old visible Google PageRank scores.

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This day in search marketing history: February 3

Search Engine Land

Video: Jennifer Van Iderstyne on agency types & multimedia SEO 2020: In this installment of Barry Schwartz’s vlog series, he also chatted with Van Iderstyne about content creation in SEO, capitalizing on misalignments in SEO and more. Super Bowl 2014: How We Searched 2014: Recipes, start time, people.

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This day in search marketing history: March 11

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The commission found that the “transaction would be unlikely to have harmful effects on consumers, either in ad serving or in intermediation in online advertising markets.” In 2008, display advertising represented about 32% of total US online advertising (roughly $6.7 The deal was first announced April 13, 2007.

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This day in search marketing history: February 14

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Microsoft Advertising nearly doubles available markets with 29 more countries 2022: This expansion would increase the platform’s reach by 41 million customers. Googling The Weather: From 20% Project To Sophisticated Query Analysis 2014: A look at the evolution of weather-related searches and how Google handled them.

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This day in search marketing history: January 22

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Contextual links in featured snippets may present new opportunities and risks 2021: The potential for more links to appear in this high-visibility search result feature had SEOs concerned about click-through rates, brand safety and how to optimize for it. of US search query volume, while Bing powered 32.2% of organic search.