5 free SEO tools and plugins to try

Are you looking for new ways to save time doing research and competitive analysis? Then these five handy SEO tools and plugins – which are completely free to use – should help: Competitor research: Wayback Machine Data analysis: Copy Selected Links Design and layout: GoFullPage Research and data formatting: Docs Online Viewer Reformat content from…

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Microsoft’s Performance Max is now in open beta

Microsoft’s Performance Max is now in open beta. Select marketers can now access its full inventory and serve ads across its network. Why we care. Microsoft’s Performance Max offers new features which aim to simplify marketers’ workloads and give them back time to focus on the creative and help them to reach untapped audiences. Being…

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Proposing a new meta tag for LLM/AI

While Google is opening up the discussion on giving credit and adhering to copyright when training large language models (LLMs) for generative AI products, their focus is on the robots.txt file. However, in my opinion, this is the wrong tool to look at. My former colleague Pierre Far wrote an excellent article on Crawlers, search…

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What you need to know

Kroger is breaking away from Microsoft to take its advertising platform – Kroger Precision Marketing – in-house. The new system, which the grocer has spent the last year working on, is currently in beta but all marketers are set to transition in the fall. Why we care. With 2,700 stores across 35 states, Kroger is…

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Visual Search now live in Bing Chat

Bing Chat now supports visual search, which means you can now upload a photo or take a picture and have Bing Chat respond with answers around those visuals. “Visual Search in Bing Chat is rolling out now on desktop and mobile,” Microsoft Bing posted on its blog. What it looks like. Here is a video…

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