A member of the search marketing community tweeted his surprise that Google ranked a paywalled web page in the featured snippets. Google’s official description of featured snippets precludes content that cannot be clicked through to be read. But other documentation states that paywalled content is acceptable for Google Search as well as Google News. In…
Content marketing and analytics provider Parse.ly has rolled out the first generally-available release of Parse.ly Conversions. The solution seeks to help marketers address content attribution challenges of conversion reporting. It allows users to select different attribution models for assigning credit to content. The release also includes features such as labels that can be applied to…
ADVERTISEMENT As your business grows, retaining your existing customer base becomes just as important as generating new customers. A leaky funnel in a SaaS business will have you overspending on customer acquisition and will prevent you from reaching your growth goals. Whether you come from a B2B or B2C SaaS organization, here are seven effective…
ADVERTISEMENT Facebook announced a new feature called Facebook News. Facebook News was created in partnership with the journalism industry. Given Facebook’s popularity, Facebook News may become a significant source of audience growth for publishers. Facebook News Has Five Features Facebook will make the news accessible via a News tab. Within this tab users will be…
ADVERTISEMENT Join Greg Finn and Christine “Shep” Zirnheld as they break down the news and hot topics that the digital community is discussing on this week’s episode of Marketing O’Clock. This week, Apple introduced a new way to search for podcasts and we attempt to use it to get more celebrities to tune in to…
Perficient Digital released the latest version of its now annual Digital Personal Assistants accuracy study. It compared responses to roughly 5,000 queries on seven devices including Amazon’s Alexa (Echo and Echo Show), Microsoft’s Cortana, Google Assistant (Home, smartphones), and Siri. More answers, less accuracy. At the highest level, Google Assistant performed the best, but Cortana…
Amazon advertising revenue increased by more than 45% year-over-year in the third quarter. Click to enlarge. Amazon advertising revenues hit a new high in the third quarter, reaching $3.6 billion. Overall, the company reported lower-than-expected profits of $2.1 billion on $70 billion in revenue for the third quarter of the year on Thursday. Amazon doesn’t…
Google announced what they called the most important update in five years. The BERT update impacts 10% of search queries. What is BERT and how will it impact SEO? BERT is a Major Google Update According to Google this update will affect complicated search queries that depend on context. This is what Google said: “These…
Google is making the largest change to its search system since the company introduced RankBrain, almost five-years ago. The company said this will impact 1 in 10 queries in terms of changing the results that rank for those queries. Rolling out. BERT started rolling out this week and will be fully live shortly. It is…
Product ad spending continued to grow year-over-year on both social and search channels. Source: Kenshoo E-commerce advertisers spent 39% of their search budgets on Shopping campaigns and 37% of their social budgets on product ads in the third quarter of the year, according to new Kenshoo data. Social outpacing search. Spending on social product ads…