In the local SEO community, Google’s recent Possum update was a very big deal. To those of us who regularly track the search results for local businesses, it was obvious there were massive changes on September 1. The SEO community as a whole has been relatively quiet about this huge update, and I believe this…
In order to maintain dominance in the search engines, and content marketing in general, businesses must be able to understand the balance of costs, quality and outcomes to rank for valuable keywords. This white paper from Rowe Digital goes deep into the three key components of a good SEO program that impacts the pricing for…
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: A successful SEO program starts with the right budgetNov 4, 2016 by Digital Marketing Depot In order to maintain dominance in the search engines, and content marketing in general, businesses must…
In April, media measurement firm comScore bought the Digital Intelligence unit of market research firm Millward Brown, which had built the unit around its previous purchase of web traffic analysis firm Compete. comScore launched a PRO web traffic service, based on what Compete — a competitor to comScore — had provided. On the same day…
Managing online citations, claimed and unclaimed listings, landing pages, reviews and ratings and data feeds for hundreds or thousands of locations has become time-consuming and costly for enterprise brands. Automating these processes can improve search rankings, increase productivity and lower CPCs due to better SEO. Marketing Land’s all new “Enterprise Local Marketing Automation Platforms” examines…
Politicians have always been scattershot in their outreach to voters. Presidential candidates distribute thousands of colorful lawn signs to be placed in yards across the country, buy millions of dollars’ worth of ad space and pack arenas full of their most fervent believers — all tactics to capture the highest number of eyeballs at the…
If Google’s expanded text ads (ETAs) are supposed to perform better than standard text ads, why did Google delay the sunset for creating legacy ads from late October 2016 to the end of January 2017? A recent conversation I had with a Google product manager explained it pretty well. To start: quality matters. When expanded…
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: 5 ingredients for writing the perfect expanded text adNov 3, 2016 by Frederick Vallaeys Want to succeed with expanded text ads? Columnist Frederick Vallaeys reports on findings from an Optmyzr study…
We all have visions and dreams. Whether it’s about our personal lives, our work, or about complex concepts that target issues which are hard to grasp. The important thing is to listen to your ideas, to write them down, and, if they wake strong feelings, to pursue them. It can be easy to achieve this,…
Did Google deliberately try to reduce the rankings of ProtonMail, a tiny rival to Google’s own Gmail service? Almost certainly not. Even Proton doesn’t seem to believe that. But the case highlights how Google’s problems with publisher, business and webmaster communication can hurt it as it faces challenges on antitrust grounds. What happened with Proton…
