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JULY 11, 2024

Influencer marketing is the practice of collaborating with recognized experts or popular social-media users to drive brand awareness, engagement, and revenue. From viral tooth whitening products to the latest fitness gadgets, influencer marketing is a staple in the B2C marketplace. By partnering with industry influencers, brands can reach new audiences while deepening trust with existing ones.

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Influencer Marketing Thought Leadership Transform B2C 310

Search Engine Land

JULY 22, 2024

Google is reversing course and won’t phase out third-party cookies in Chrome as previously planned, instead opting for a new approach that gives users more control, the company announced today. Why we care. This decision marks a significant shift in Google’s privacy strategy and will come as a relief to many in the advertising industry who have been scrambling to prepare for a cookieless future.

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Martech

JULY 17, 2024

Eighty-three percent of Chinese business decision-makers say their organizations are using AI. This contrasts with the U.S. (65%) and the U.K. (70%). However, closer questioning reveals that U.S. organizations are ahead in terms of genAI maturity, having fully implemented solutions. These statistics come from an extensive global survey of 1,600 decision makers in genAI strategy or data analytics in organizations across key sectors conducted by Coleman Parkes for data management and analytics ven

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OnPassive Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2024

The future of search is undergoing a significant transition in the rapidly changing digital world. Google is the industry powerhouse in the field of search engines. It is leading the drive with its AI-powered search feature, Search Generative Experience (SGE), which is destined to transform how we access information online. We’ll look into what SGE is in this blog article, discuss how it can affect organic traffic, and discuss how website owners can adjust to this major change in the digit

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MAY 9, 2024

Social media search is growing. Google search results are increasingly filled with results from social platforms. According to this study , 87 percent of social media marketers say social search is vital to their strategy. There’s even an industry inside joke that adding “reddit” or “pinterest” or, of course, "linkedin" at the end of your search terms will more likely deliver exactly what you need.

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SEO User-Generated Thought Leadership Social Media Marketing 136

Sprout Social

MAY 15, 2024

When you think of a social media manager’s job, you probably picture them planning and posting content all day. But there’s much more to the job description. That clever LinkedIn or eye-catching Instagram post? Social media managers brainstormed those ideas, wrote captions, designed visuals, researched hashtags and scheduled posts for the best engagement.

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Social Media Marketing Communications Customer loyalty User-Generated 131

CopyBlogger

APRIL 11, 2024

Email marketing is one of the most popular marketing channels because it’s relatively easy to use, highly effective, and cheap. Continue Reading The post The Ultimate Guide To Email Marketing appeared first on Copyblogger.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 19, 2024

How to Maximize Your Video Content: Content Splintering and Intelligent Repurposing written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Atiba de Souza, a celebrated marketer known for his expertise in video content and human connections.

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Hubspot Marketing

JULY 22, 2024

Developing a consistent brand starts with creating a brand style guide. These branding rule books help graphic designers, marketers, web developers, community managers, and even product packaging departments present a unified vision of the brand to the public. The best brands stick in our brains because their presence is defined by the repetition of the same logo, fonts, colors, and images.

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Branding User-Generated PR Law 117

Orbit Media Studios

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

By Andy Crestodina Click! You have a visitor. They land on a page and begin navigating around your website. Hopefully, answers are easy to find. Navigation labels are clear. Internal links are useful. The search tool is helpful. But then they hit a dead end. These are places where the flow of visitors stops because the page is blank. There are no offers, no information, no reason to stay.

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Speaker: Michelle Garrett, PR Consultant, Author, Speaker

Yes - press releases are still relevant in the world of public relations! 🎯 Ever wondered how to write a compelling press release, or what are current best practices for pitching your news to earn media coverage? In this exclusive webinar with Michelle Garrett, PR Consultant, we’ll cover tips and advice to help you get the most out of each piece of news you pitch!

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Search Engine Land

JUNE 20, 2024

Google has unleashed a new search spam update today, the June 2024 spam update. This spam update may take up to one week to complete, Google wrote. Google posted this update and wrote: One week to roll out. Released the June 2024 spam update. The rollout may take up to 1 week to complete. Spam updates. Google linked to its standard spam updates documentation that reads: While Google’s automated systems to detect search spam are constantly operating, we occasionally make notable improvement

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Search Engine Land

JULY 24, 2024

Reddit has updated its robots.txt file, preventing Bing and many other search engines from crawling the site. “Bing stopped crawling Reddit after they implemented their updated robots.txt file on July 1, which prohibits all crawling of their site,” a Microsoft representative told Search Engine Land. What happened. On July 1, 2024, Reddit updated its robots.txt file preventing many search engines and AI tools from crawling the site.

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Search Engine Land

JUNE 6, 2024

Can you rank in the top 10 of Google with very few links? Not according to a new analysis published today by Internet Marketing Ninjas. It found that: Over 96% of websites ranking in the top 10 of Google had more than 1,000 backlinks from unique domains. Only 0.3% had less than 100 backlinks. Why we care. Google has been saying that links are no longer one of the top three ranking signals and needs “very few links to rank pages.” However, clearly, websites that rank well tend to have

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Branding Marketing Marketers SEO 145

Search Engine Land

JUNE 3, 2024

Google’s mobile-first indexing initiative started just seven and a half years, while we thought it was completed last October , it is now really going to be fully done after July 5th. “The small set of sites we’ve still been crawling with desktop Googlebot will be crawled with mobile Googlebot after July 5, 2024,” John Mueller from Google wrote on the Google blog.

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Speaker: Steven Bryerton, SVP of Sales at ZoomInfo & Robin Izsak-Tseng, VP of Revenue Marketing at G2

Join Steven Bryerton, SVP of Sales at ZoomInfo, and Robin Izsak-Tseng, VP of Revenue Marketing at G2 in this webinar where you're guaranteed to walk away with a fresh understanding of and a new perspective on intent data! Turn your go-to-market motions around with intent data! Instead of searching for ways to showcase your products, reach out to the customers that are searching for your solutions — then build your messaging around their needs to set you apart from the competition. 🚀 With

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Martech

JULY 1, 2024

You’ve launched new social campaigns, optimized your website and established thought leadership opportunities. While these are crucial to running a successful business today, there is a critical fourth element that can’t be overlooked: Data privacy. Six years ago, the European Union set global standards for data privacy compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Law Thought Leadership Marketing Marketers 138

Search Engine Land

JULY 10, 2024

Internal linking is one of the most under-utilized arrows in the quiver of a site owner. Although inbound link building gets all the press, it’s the correct use of internal linking that can really move a site algorithmically when done strategically. Need to provide increased UX to users accessing content ? Use internal linking. Need to promote an inclusive, accessibility-compliant experience ?

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SEO Fashion Communications Promotion 135

Search Engine Land

MAY 6, 2024

Google has started its enforcement of the new site reputation abuse policy by deranking or deindexing portions of websites from the Google Search index. This seems to have launched in the past hour or so, where sites as large as CNN, USA Today, Fortune, and LA Times are seeing their coupon directories no longer ranking for coupon-related keyword phrases.

SEO 144

SEO Education Advertising Advertisers 144

Search Engine Land

APRIL 26, 2024

Google’s March 2024 core update is now done rolling out, it started on March 5, 2024 and completed 45 days later on April 19, 2024. This was a big core update, where Google said that this core update is more complex and involves changes to multiple core systems, while also ending the standalone helpful content update. Google did not tell us until April 26th, 52 days after the rollout began, that it finished on April 19th.

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Speaker: Corey Daugherty, Head of Business Development at Flowcode & Georgette Malitsis, Senior Customer Success Manager, Enterprise at Flowcode

Let's explore the transformative power of QR codes in bridging offline and online marketing worlds. 📲 This new webinar featuring Corey Daugherty and Georgette Malitsis of Flowcode will dive into how innovative QR technology not only enhances traditional marketing strategies, but also drives meaningful customer engagement and analytics. Register today to gain practical knowledge on using QR codes to increase conversion rates, optimize customer journeys, and ultimately unlock a new realm o

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Search Engine Land

MAY 17, 2024

The Department of Justice’s laid out a damning case against Google in the antitrust lawsuit closing argument. Search Engine Land Managing Editor Danny Goodwin highlighted some of the damaging evidence – including how Google has been increasing costs for advertisers – in How Google harms search advertisers in 20 slides In light of the revelations, I contacted search marketers to get their thoughts on Google Ads to evaluate the current confidence level.

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Advertising Advertisers Price Management 142

Search Engine Land

JUNE 14, 2024

Google is notifying some advertisers that they must transition away from paying for Google Ads via credit or debit card by July 31 or face account suspension. The big picture. The move is part of Google’s effort to steer high-spend advertisers toward more automated payment methods better suited for scaling ad investment. Details. Impacted advertisers will only be allowed to use bank-based payment options going forward: Monthly Invoicing (Google’s recommended approach) with 30-day pay

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Advertising Advertisers Management Customer 137

Search Engine Land

MAY 13, 2024

It seems like the search algorithm changes have been hitting harder than a Taylor Swift breakup song. There’s been much talk about core updates , helpful content , reputation abuse , etc. OpenAI is building a search engine , and Google’s Search Generative Experience is likely expanding soon. It’s getting hard to keep up, and many SEOs are having some serious FOMO.

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SEO User-Generated Promotion Branding 141

Search Engine Land

MARCH 22, 2024

Google is now testing AI overviews in the main Google Search results, even if you have not opted into the Google Search Generative Experience labs feature. Google said this is an experience on a “subset of queries, on a small percentage of search traffic in the U.S.,” a Google spokesperson told Search Engine Land. In May 2023, Google opened up a Search Labs section for searchers to opt in to see and use the Google SGE results, that contained AI overviews.

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Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 20, 2024

Google’s March 2024 spam update rollout is now complete. The spam update started March 5, about 15 days ago. The March 2024 core update is still rolling out and will likely continue to roll out for the next couple of weeks. The spam update took 14 days and 21 hours to roll out, starting on March 5, and ending on March 20. Google wrote this morning, “The rollout was complete as of March 20, 2024.” March 2024 spam update.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 5, 2024

Google is unleashing multiple measures aimed at improving the quality of its search results beginning today. Google is releasing the March 2024 core update and a number of spam updates (aka March 2024 spam update). Also, Google’s helpful content system has been incorporated into its overall core ranking system. In addition, Google announced several new and updated spam policies that it will begin enforcing through automated algorithms and manual actions.

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User-Generated SEO Advertising Advertisers 145

Search Engine Land

JULY 3, 2024

Meta has introduced new attribution settings in its Ads platform, allowing advertisers to distinguish between all conversions and first-time conversions. How it works. Advertisers can now choose between two attribution options: All Conversions: Shows every conversion after an ad view or click First Conversion: Displays only the first conversion after an ad view or click Why we care.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 24, 2024

Google looks stupid right now. And AI Overviews are to blame. Google’s AI Overviews have given incorrect, misleading and even dangerous answers. The fact that Google includes a disclaimer at the bottom of every answer (“Generative AI is experimental”) should be no excuse. What’s happening. Google’s AI-generated answers have gained a lot negative mainstream media coverage as people have been sharing numerous examples of AI Overview fails on social media.

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Health Advertising Advertisers Product 138

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Search Engine Land

JUNE 21, 2024

Google is discontinuing Universal Analytics, its legacy web analytics platform. This is the final shift in the transition to Google Analytics 4 (GA4). Why it matters. Businesses that relied on Universal Analytics for website measurement and data analysis need to act quickly to avoid losing access to their historical data and maintain continuity in their analytics capabilities.

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Analytics Advertising Advertisers Search Marketers 134

Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

How Google is killing independent sites like ours from HouseFresh talks about an ongoing complaint from smaller publishers and site owners about how they are constantly being outranked by larger publishers and site owners in Google Search. The irony here is that story is currently being outranked by Reddit – no joke. Google ranking Reddit above HouseFresh.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 29, 2024

The search community is still unpacking and processing the huge reveal of the Google Search ranking documents that were made public yesterday morning. Everyone has been asking, why has Google not commented on the leak. Well, Google has finally commented – we spoke to a Google spokesperson about the data leak. Google told us. Google told us that there are a lot of assumptions being published based on the data leak that are being taken out of context, that are incomplete and added that searc

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Search Engine Land

JUNE 11, 2024

SMX Advanced opened with a bang today as Search Engine Land’s Barry Schwartz interviewed Elizabeth Tucker, director, product management, Google Search. Here are some highlights of the wide-ranging keynote interview, which included discussion on creating helpful content, the biggest Google core update ever, why Search results may be volatile and more. 1.

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