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PayPal is building an advertising business that will leverage the troves of data it collects on consumer purchases and spending habits. What’s happening? The digital payments giant plans to create an ad network that allows merchants and brands to target PayPal’s roughly 400 million users with personalized promotions and ads based on their transaction histories….
Understanding all the features of Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is essential to making the most of it. Doing so allows you to configure the tool to analyze data accurately and efficiently. It also lets you draw the best conclusions for designing, refocusing and defining your digital strategies. GA4 users can configure many functionalities, including custom…
Many agencies have been operating fully remotely or in a hybrid environment for four or more years. But some challenges persist, including: A lack of face-to-face interaction and inability to read body language. Over-reliance on communication tools, such as Slack. Being unable to meet your boss or team members in person for months, years or…
“Buying” customers can work. Just not all that well over the long haul, it turns out. Direct-response, digital ads (like paid search) are among the best converting channels anywhere. Like, ever. In the history of time. No joke. Google it. It’s the #1 best way to spend money today to generate revenue tomorrow. (Or even…
Google will be shutting down the Google Business Profile chat and call history feature on July 31, 2024. Google will stop allowing new chats to be initiated starting on July 15, 2024 and then will totally disable the chat and call history features on July 31, 2024. What Google said. Google sent out numerous types…
A trove of leaked Google documents has given us an unprecedented look inside Google Search and revealed some of the most important elements Google uses to rank content. What happened. Thousands of leaked internal documents, which appear to come from Google’s internal Content API Warehouse, were shared with Rand Fishkin, SparkToro co-founder, earlier this month….
I am hearing numerous reports from SEOs that the link report within Google Search Console is showing drastically fewer links than it did a month prior. I am not sure if this is impacting all SEO, but there are a number of SEOs complaining about this. First to notify me of this is Leonard Brahm…
Google’s John Mueller once again blasted the “concept of toxic links,” he wrote on Reddit, “The concept of toxic links is made up by SEO tools so that you pay them regularly.” As you know, John is not a fan of link selling, buying and removal services – including tools that tell you what to…
Google has updated its help documentation page on AI Overviews to tell searchers how to show only web results in its search results (not show AI Overviews, videos, image, etc), plus how to give feedback on the AI Overviews Google provides. This obviously comes based on the backlash Google has received on some of these…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google updated its AI Overviews help documents to show how to use web only filters and how to submit feedback. Google blasted the concept of toxic links….