Advances in artificial intelligence tend to provoke polarizing reactions for most people. One, a dystopian anxiety where humans huddle in fear of their metallic overlords. Or two, a utopian futurist society where humans are freed from mundane labor and complex challenges are solved by machines. Wherever you fall on …
Read More »The AdWords 2017 roadmap is loaded with artificial intelligence
Google recently shared their 2017 AdWords product roadmap at Google Marketing Next. Because the audience is primarily comprised of executives at big agencies and big brands, and Google is doing its best to get them excited about all their capabilities, the event sometimes skims over some of the details that …
Read More »Google has officially rolled out a new tab-based local panel with quick access to reviews
After a month of testing, Google has confirmed with Search Engine Land that they have fully rolled out a new user experience for the local panel in the mobile search results. You can now quickly toggle between the local business’s overview details and the reviews for that business. There should …
Read More »Who should optimize content: SEOs or content writers?
Content marketing and SEO are pretty closely related in the digital marketing sphere, but they can also be miles apart in execution. There are certainly some overlapping areas between the two, but is there enough to allow your SEO practitioner to also be your content marketer, or vice versa? In …
Read More »Powerful Retirement Lessons: Inspiring Quotes from 7 Famous Retirees
Looking for some inspiration for retirement? Check out these retirement lessons that can be gleaned from the quotes of a diverse group of famous older people. The following 7 successful individuals shared wisdom that can help you have a better retirement. They also demonstrated that age is just a number, …
Read More »Japanese Paleontologists Unearth Nearly Complete Skeleton of Duck-Billed Dinosaur
In a stunning fossil discovery in Japan, paleontologists unearthed a nearly complete skeleton of a duck-billed dinosaur that lived approximately 72 million years ago. A nearly-complete skeleton of the duck-billed dinosaur Mukawaryu. Image credit: Hobetsu Musem / Hokkaido University Museum. Duck-billed dinosaurs, or hadrosaurids, are members of the family Hadrosauridae. …
Read More »Why Apple’s HomePod won’t just collect dust on your shelf
Apple brought its smart speaker into the world with a shoddy name and an unconventional pitch, but anyone brash enough to cast the device to the side so easily will surely pay the price. Apple, unlike Amazon and Google, understands that selling glorified intelligence-in-a-box as a method of human computer …
Read More »SearchCap: Bing Ads management, Apple Maps updates & more
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Beginners’ guide to Bing Ads managementJun 6, 2017 by John E Lincoln Considering advertising on Bing but not sure where to start? Columnist John Lincoln provides …
Read More »SMX Advanced is almost sold out! Less than 100 tickets left.
SMX Advanced is one week. This time next week, your peers (and competitors) will be in Seattle getting actionable SEO and SEM tactics and having conversations with the marketers making the biggest impact in the search world. We’ll be covering the SEO and SEM topics relevant today: from mobile SEO …
Read More »Grow Customer Lifetime Value with People-Based Search Marketing
It’s time to think beyond the keyword, and tailor your PPC campaigns based on who is actually viewing or clicking your ad. With a people-based approach to your search marketing, you can improve the cross-channel customer experience, optimize PPC campaign performance, and ultimately re-acquire customers and grow CLTV. Join our …
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