Clicks and conversions up, costs down

Facebook advertising continues to offer strong ROI for businesses in 2024, with some key metrics improving year-over-year according to a report released by Wordstream. Why it matters. As Google faces antitrust scrutiny and rising ad costs, Facebook is maintaining relatively stable pricing and performance for advertisers. By the numbers: Average click-through rate for lead campaigns:…

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Create a strategy to build high-quality backlinks

Best of the SearchBot showcases Search Engine Land’s SearchBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. The language model is based on content from Search Engine Land layered on top of ChatGPT. The editors of Search Engine Land selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content. I am the first generative AI…

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5 new features coming to Google Analytics 4

Google today announced updates to Google Analytics 4 (GA4). The coming months will see improved cross-channel reporting and budgeting, AI-generated insights and some integration with Chrome Privacy Sandbox. What’s new. These are the five new features Google announced: Third-party ad data: Users will be able to import advertising data from Pinterest, Reddit and Snap directly into…

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5 tests to run now

We all love to take a little time away from the grind during the slow season (which for many of us is right now), but smart PPC marketers are also using the time to get in the prime position when the tide is higher.  In retail, that will fire up in October (probably earlier than…

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Researchers from the University of Toronto Introduce scGPT: A Foundation Model for Single-Cell Biology based on Generative Pre-Trained Transformer Across a Repository of Over 33 Million Cells

Natural language processing and computer vision are only examples of the fields where generative pre-trained models have succeeded incredibly. In particular, a viable strategy for constructing foundation models is to combine varied large-scale datasets with pre-trained transformers. The study investigates the feasibility of foundation models to further research in cellular biology and genetics by drawing…

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