Google has expanded on the continuous audience sharing feature it launched last year by enabling audiences to be shared from sub-accounts, the company announced Tuesday. When enabled, existing and future remarketing lists created from sub-accounts are automatically shared with manager accounts. Continuous audience sharing settings in Google Ads. Image: Google. How it different than before. […]
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How Equinox pivoted from clubs to content
For the Equinox Group, 2020 was the year fitness clubs were replaced by fitness content. The Equinox Group itself, and the brands it owns — including SoulCycle and Blink Fitness — had built a business around in-person training, something that was simply not viable under lockdown. Josh Rappaport, Director, Post-Production and Publishing at Equinox Media, […]
Microsoft proposes method to automatically submit URLs from WordPress to search engines
Fabrice Canel, the Principal Program Manager at Microsoft Bing, has submitted a proposal, aka feature request, to build into the core of WordPress the ability for WordPress to push new and updated URLs directly to search engines. The proposal. You can access this feature request at the WordPress ticket site, where Fabrice wrote “today, we […]
Quest for more coverage: Making a case for larger exports from Google Search Console’s Coverage reporting
In 2018 Google revamped the Index Coverage report in Google Search Console. It was a huge improvement from the previous version, and SEOs around the globe rejoiced. With the upgrade, the new Coverage reporting greatly expanded the amount of information for site owners, including errors, indexing levels, and urls that were being excluded from indexing. […]
SEO strategies from the Search Engine Land SEO initiative award winners
[embedded content] In an interview with the Best SEO Initiative Award winners, Search Engine Land Editor George Nguyen deep-dives into the best SEO strategies and tactics for your campaigns. Here are the category winners: Lindsay Neilson from NP Digital worked with PROS to overcome the challenges of a conceptual product and finding search volume in […]
3 Critical PPC Lessons from 2020 for a Brilliant 2021
The past 10 months or so have given PPC pros a crash course in adaptability, ingenuity and nimble marketing. Those who thrived in pandemic-era PPC deserve some sort of advanced honorary degree in “PPC’ology.” In many instances, smart, effective PPC has literally saved brands from the brink of devastation. But let’s face it, PPC pros […]
Award-winning tips from the 2020 Search Engine Land SEM and SEO agencies of the year
This year’s Search Engine Land Award winners for Agency of the Year in SEO and SEM sat down with our Search Engine Land’s own Matt Van Wagner to talk about how they make their award-winning agencies work. [embedded content] Adam Heitzman is the cofounder and managing partner at Higher Visibility, a full-service digital agency based […]
Biased language models can result from internet training data
Last year, Google announced BERT, calling it the largest change to its search system in nearly five years, and now, it powers almost every English-based query. However, language models like BERT are trained on large datasets, and there are potential risks associated with developing language models this way. AI researcher Timnit Gebru’s departure from Google […]
Technology saving retail businesses from going under
Image Credit: Lightspeed The pandemic is changing the game for retail, and fast. Not only is the competition fiercer than ever before, but the coronavirus has been the cause of a dramatic decrease in in-store traffic, making it difficult for retailers to stand out from the crowd. While the situation has forced some companies to […]
New key insights from Google’s John Mueller at SMX
At SMX Tuesday, John Mueller, the lead of the Search Relations team at Google, gave a talk named “Google Search #2020: What’s New That Matters To SEOs.” You can still watch the talk on demand at SMX Virtual if you missed it. Mueller gave an overview of what has changed in Google Search this year […]
How DuckDuckGo (and Microsoft) benefit from Google’s sprawling advertising business
DuckDuckGo is a search engine that was founded in 2008 with a focus on protecting searchers’ privacy, notably showing all searchers the same search results and refraining from building profiles of its users. Its search volume has risen steadily over the years, and in October 2020 was up to nearly 60 million queries daily. This […]
Google Podcasts Manager shows you search impressions and clicks from Google Search
Google announced a new feature for Podcasters named Google Podcast Manager. Podcast Manager allows podcasters to see how well their podcasts are performing in Google Search. What Podcast Manager does. Google Podcast Manager enables “podcasters can see impressions and clicks for Google Podcasts results that appear in Search, as well as top discovered episodes and […]
Study: Comparing the data from 8 SEO tools
Have you ever had a client (or boss) that called out discrepancies between the SEO tools you use? As an SEO, it’s tough to have that conversation. Nobody likes to hear, “Well, these tools all measure things in different ways and are never 100% … yada yada yada.” To non-SEO people, this feels like a […]
How a UK food provider went from B2B to D2C in 7 days
Food and technology have been on everyone’s mind in the past six months, and for SAP CX these two worlds collided this spring in a 7-day span when its SAP Commerce Cloud was used to launch a new direct-to-consumer platform for Brakes, a leading food supplier in the U.K. “This is where the pandemic has […]
Google says you can recover from core updates without a new core update
Last Friday, John Mueller of Google said in a webmaster hangout video that if your site was negatively impacted by a Google core algorithm update, that you do not need to wait for the next time Google pushes out a core update to recover. Yesterday, in another Google webmaster hangout with John, I asked him […]