SEO is easy enough, in theory. The strategies are obvious if you’ve been around the block. What’s hard about SEO is the actual execution and implementation. The consistency. On a daily basis. Nowhere is this more obvious than link building. This article will explain why. You’ll also learn how to use the “5 degrees of link relevance”…
Just a photo from the Google Dublin office that reminded me of going down the Google brick road… I found this on Instagram and it caught my eye. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting photos related to the search industry and share…
Repetitive advertising on streaming platforms can damage a brand’s reputation, according to a new study. Overexposure to the same ad campaigns was described as “annoying” and “disruptive” by participants in a new joint study, conducted by IPG’s Magna unit and ad tech firm Nexxen, called It’s All in the Delivery: How Repeating Ads Affect CTV…
Google will face allegations of using underhanded tactics to secure its position as the world’s leading search engine in a jury trial set for September 9, brought by the U.S. Justice Department and a coalition of states. The tech giant, which owns a 90% market share in search, is accused of paying massive sums to…
Microsoft hosted the Surface AI event last night during which the company made several announcements about artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Microsoft also launched new generation of Surface laptops and Copilot Plus PCs with built-in AI hardware. While the Copilot Plus PCs included several advanced AI features, one such AI feature that caught everyone’s attention…
Google Ads made broad match the default setting when creating new Search campaigns, a departure from its previous default of having broad match turned off. Why it matters. This change could significantly impact campaign performance and budget spend if advertisers aren’t vigilant. Key details: Broad match is now enabled by default for new Search campaigns…
Bing Chat has made some big efficiency improvements and reduced latency issues for some queries by 25%. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing, said on Twitter, “yesterday we released a completely reworked backend for inner monologue, reducing time to first token by ~25%, and, far more importantly, making latency more stable, reducing spikes.” He shared…
Meta is rolling out a new feature allowing advertisers to showcase custom offers directly on Instagram ad call-to-action (CTA) buttons. Key features: Dynamic sourcing of offer details from the ad’s website URL. Predictive display of the offer most likely to convert. Support for up to 20 offers per ad, with Meta predicting which one is…
If you do some sports-related queries, sometimes, Google Search will let you rate the players and then see how those players line up against each other based on their ratings. I have no clue if this is new, I tried to Google it to find others covering this, but I did not find anything. But…
We’ll look back at 2024 as the year AI made its way into the martech stack. Generative AI, in particular, quickly appeared in a wide range of martech applications. In fact, as the martech landscape grew to more than 14,000 new applications in 2024, 77% of the 3,068 new tools introduced this year are based on generative…