In the early goings of Amazon’s advertising platform, most advertisers looked to it as another source of ad inventory that should be focused on direct response. This is in large part due to Sponsored Products typically being the first format brands wade into, and that format produced a whopping 13% conversion rate for the median…
Google is increasingly ranking content based on relevance signals derived from algorithms designed to help them better understand search queries and webpages. We are in a post-keyword ranking era. Researching keywords still matter. But the way Google ranks websites, it’s largely not about matching words in a search query to words on a webpage. This…
One of the biggest challenges an SEO faces is one of focus. We live in a world of data with disparate tools that do various things well, and others, not so well. We have data coming out of our eyeballs, but how to refine large data to something meaningful. In this post, I mix new…
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One common mistake when it comes to developing and publishing content on a site is never touching it again. Having a content revitalization strategy to ensure content is relevant is just as (if not more) important than adding new content to drive organic traffic. If it’s been a while since older posts on your site…
More than 80% of marketers use location data to improve the performance of their campaigns. Location-based ads accounted for $26.5 billion in media spend last year, a figure that’s expected to grow more than 40% by 2022. While location-based marketing is widely practiced, understanding and effectively using location-based audiences remains a challenge for small to…
Amazon had anticipated a good holiday season, and it got it. The company reported $87.4 billion in net sales for the fourth quarter of 2019, up 21% from the same period the prior year. On the advertising front, the company generated ad revenues of nearly $4.8 billion for the quarter, an increase of 41% year…
ADVERTISEMENT Social media has the power to grow your brand into a massive empire. But if you aren’t careful, it can do just the opposite. Take Snapchat, for example. In 2018, Snapchat ran an ad game called “Would You Rather?” One of the questions asked was if users would rather “Slap Rihanna” or “Punch Chris…
In a Webmaster Hangout, someone asked John Mueller about examples of bad links that Google sent his client. The problem was that the sample links were nofollow. Google’s John Mueller explained why those sample links were nofollow then offered guidance on what should be done for a successful link reconsideration request. The question asked was…
Meta descriptions, followed by brand name and page title, have the largest influence over whether users click through on a search result, according to a study conducted by Ignite Visibility. Two-thirds of survey respondents also said that more ads would make them want to use Google less, and the majority agreed that Google is improving…