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Microsoft I think has been sending some of their agency partners some swag recently. One digital marketing agency named Impressions received a boat load of swag from the company. Included were bottles of wine, water bottles, binoculars, note pads, bags and more. This was shared on Twitter where the company thanked Microsoft Advertising for the […]
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Google seems to be rolling out a new interface for key moments videos they have been testing for maybe a year now? The results show the location of the key moment but also add the text from the video of what that section is about. It use to show video clips or thumbnails from that
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When Google first launched “short videos” in Google Search it seemed to just show videos from YouTube. Shortly after we spotted both TikTok and Instagram videos in this short video carousel. Now we are notified Google can also show videos from Facebook. Basil noticed this and shared a screen shot of it in action with
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Despite all the new messaging that the Google Page Experience update that launches this May 2021, won’t result in massive changes and the impact won’t be huge after it rolls out, many SEOs will still prioritize their Core Web Vitals / Google Page Experience optimization efforts. Aleyda Solis posted a poll on Twitter asking “does
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Google has added to the Google Ads mobile app custom notifications and review performance insights notifications. Google says this will “help you monitor and improve performance in real time.” Google announced this on Twitter. Here are how the custom notifications and performance insights notifications work. Custom Notifications in Google Ads Mobile App To configure these
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It was a busy week in our search industry on so many levels but I kick off this recap with the monthly Google webmaster report. Then I go into not just one but two different unconfirmed Google algorithm updates that were spotted this week. SEOs, despite Google saying the Google Page Experience Update won’t be
Google is starting a new Google Ads content policy called “Evasive Ad Content.” Evasive Ad Content will extend the prohibited manipulations of trademark terms in ad text to domains, subdomains, and logos; prohibit usage of invisible UNICODE characters in ads that add no value to the ad content for users; and disallow manipulations of images
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In this episode of the Digital Marketing with Bill Hartzer podcast, I spoke with Henry Kaminski, Jr., the Brand Doctor, about rebranding your business. Here is the full transcript from this episode: Bill Hartzer (00:02):Hi, this is Bill Hartzer, and this is the digital marketing podcast with Bill Hartzer, for Thursday, March 4th, 2021. And
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Way back in 2007, I wrote a post called Google Learning Speech Recognition for Voice Search from MTV? My post was about language models being used for speech recognition and was about how Google was learning new words to fit into language models. That post was about a Google patent that was filed in 2001
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This will be a bit of a philosophical piece, where I look at the overarching functions of SEO in the context of news, and how these functions could relate to actual SEO roles in newsrooms and the broader organisation. Recently I’ve been involved in several projects that went beyond the day-to-day execution of SEO. These
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