Ensuring your website and digital content are accessible is an often-overlooked brand strategy. However, a perfect web-accessibility implementation doesn’t need to be perfect from the start. Join us for “Achieve Near-Perfect Accessibility,” and discover how to balance ideal web accessibility standards with practical implementation. In this webinar, industry experts will guide proven strategies and tactics…
Keyword research is the compass that guides SEO strategies. Excel has been an indispensable tool for marketers, aiding in organizing, analyzing, and presenting keyword data. Enter artificial intelligence (AI). By blending traditional Excel formulas with AI insights, digital marketers can unlock an even more potent combination for superior SEO performance. This comprehensive guide will explore…
Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, reported higher advertising revenue in the second quarter of 2023, year on year. A 2% gain in search revenue was accompanied by an increase in revenue for YouTube ads (4.4%). However, Google’s advertising network was down 5%. “Our financial results reflect continued resilience in Search, with an acceleration of revenue…
Prabhakar Raghavan, the head of Google Search, expects his team to move more quickly and in different directions as part of a new “cost” and “operating reality.” That’s according to audio of Raghavan speaking during a Google all-hands meeting, obtained and reported on first by CNBC. A new reality. Google has been cutting costs and…
Snowflake Inc. is in talks to acquire startup Reka AI for more than $1 billion, expanding the software maker’s effort to offer generative AI capabilities, according to people familiar with the matter. Reka AI makes large language models — software trained on massive swaths of the internet that can be used for a range…
There is another Google Ads bug, this time with the Audience insights going missing for some advertisers. Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, said on X, “Audience Insights is not being removed” but rather there is a bug. The Google Ads audience insights report can help you better understand who your customers are by surfacing the…
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a subfield of Machine Learning in which an agent takes suitable actions to maximize its rewards. In reinforcement learning, the model learns from its experiences and identifies the optimal actions that lead to the best rewards. In recent years, RL has improved significantly, and it today finds its applications in…
Google has started its enforcement of the new site reputation abuse policy by deranking or deindexing portions of websites from the Google Search index. This seems to have launched in the past hour or so, where sites as large as CNN, USA Today, Fortune, and LA Times are seeing their coupon directories no longer ranking…
Earlier this week, we reported that Google said we should expect a decline in the number of driving directions reported in the Google Business Profiles performance reporting tool. Well, the opposite happened. Everyone is seeing a significant increase in the number of driving directions reported in that Google tool. Google wrote back then, and it…
The generative AI version of Google Search, Google Search Generative Experience, is now rolling out to over 120 countries and territories. Google also added new ways to follow up with AI-generated search answers, new AI translation help, and additional AI-powered definitions. This is Google’s “largest global expansion yet” of SGE, the company announced. SGE Follow-up…