Advertisers can now bring their customer segments into Microsoft Advertising via a new integration

A new integration between Dynamics 365, Microsoft’s customer data platform, and Microsoft Advertising is now available, the company announced Tuesday at its Microsoft Business Applications Summit. The integration enables advertisers to use their customer segments from Dynamics 365 Customer Insights to reach users in the Microsoft Search Network and Microsoft Audience Network via customer match…

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This is your last chance to save up to 20% on expert-level search marketing tactics that can help you generate more awareness, traffic, and conversions: SMX Advanced Super Early Bird rates end this Saturday, May 8! Attending SMX Advanced has never been this affordable… or this easy. No plane ticket, no hotel, no time out…

Bing’s new shopping features emphasize comparison shopping

Bing has added aggregated ratings, expert reviews, product specifications and the ability to compare historic prices across sellers to its shopping search engine, the company announced Thursday. Examples of Bing Shopping results featuring aggregated and expert ratings. Image: Bing. Clicking on the details within a shopping result takes the user to Bing’s detail page for…

Case study: More content is not always better for ranking in Google

It’s common to hear “content is king” in the SEO industry. Although I agree with that statement, it should not be applied cart blanche for every single site in every single situation. In fact, there are cases in which adding too much low-value content can have the opposite effect for SMBs and local businesses. The…

Google lets you report an indexing issue

Google has added a new feature to report an indexing issue directly to their search team. You can access this feature in the footer of URL inspection help document and indexing coverage report document. Google is “currently piloting this in the US only and it should be fully available to all in the US within…

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Google officially dropped Q&A on Google in search results

Google has confirmed with Search Engine Land that it is doing away with the Q&A on Google search feature. This launched initially in India for searchers there in 2019 and now Google is telling those who submitted questions or answers that it will be going away. A Google spokesperson told us that this does not…