How to earn media coverage on a budget

Unlike big proactive PR campaigns, where working with professionals can prevent you from wasting a huge amount of time and money, reactive digital PR is usually something that you can bootstrap with a bit of time and effort. As long as you follow a few basic rules, you can earn yourself a handful of foundational…

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Reddit launches Lead Generation Ads

Reddit has launched Lead Generation Ads in public beta, available globally for advertisers working directly with the platform. Why we care. Reddit’s new ad format allows advertisers to collect user information directly on the platform, potentially improving lead quality and campaign performance for businesses across various industries. Key features: Mobile-optimized design with auto-populating email fields….

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Brand Protection: The complete guide

The strongest paid search strategy builds on your brand’s unique value. Here, you control the customer experience and messaging, driving traffic that converts from search, via Google Ads.  Your brand terms, message and unique selling points are yours to leverage – and in paid search, they should be your safe haven. But with fierce competition,…

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How to START building a modern digital marketing plan

It doesn’t take a lot of sentences to cover the number of disruptions in search marketing in the season (or era?) that we’re in. Right now, Google is rapidly changing organic and paid search, causing excitement and confusion. New AI Overviews, leaked information and potential OpenAI search engines are creating distractions in our careers. Additionally,…

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How to manage SEO campaigns during economic downturns

Economic downturns create uncertainty and changes in user behavior that impact markets and forecasts. They also affect the approach and resources allocated to marketing activities. Because no two recessions or economic downsturns are the same, marketers operate in uncharted waters every time one occurs. This article can help marketers manage SEO campaigns and show the…

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Bing testing new generative search experience

Bing is now testing its new generative search experience that combines the Bing search results and its language models to use AI to generate a different breed of search results, including an AI-generated search results pages. “I’m excited to share an early look at Bing’s new generative search experience. It combines the power of LLMs…

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Microsoft confirms Reddit blocked Bing Search

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…

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