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With New Year’s Day still fresh in our memories, there is no better time to step back and take stock of your SEO campaigns. Look for any quick wins and identify the larger projects that will help you start the year in great shape. Hygiene: Quick wins These are the …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google My Business revamps photo management for Google Maps listingsJan 25, 2017 by Barry Schwartz Google aims to make it easier for business owners to manage …

Social media ROI is the topic that will not die because, like it or not, social media is still a bit of a jungle in a world of tidy marketing-tactic cities. It’s hard to navigate, let alone map and measure. This Social ROI Template from Tracx will give you advice …

In its annual Bad Ads report, Google says it took down more than double the number of ads in 2016 that it did in 2015 by removing 1.7 billion ads, compared to the 780 million removed in 2015. Google credited several changes for the big increase in removed ads. The new …

SEO and digital marketing are incredibly complicated, and the digital landscape is in constant evolution and flux. New platforms. New competitors. The new world of marketing has evolved, yet processes for managing and adapting to change have not always kept pace. There is much to learn here from the worlds …

Mike Blumenthal reports Google is rolling out a new interface for businesses to manage their photos for their Google Maps listing. The new interface has replaced categories with tags, it added a new way to post your cover photo, the profile photo and a your company’s logo. “While the profile …

There are now 8.2 million US homes with Amazon Echo/Alexa devices according to one estimate. And voice analytics company VoiceLabs says that Google has sold somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 of its Google Home devices since launch. Echo and Home thus make a market approaching nine million “voice-first devices,” according …

Marketing organizations of all sizes are being inundated by data from multiple digital marketing channels and an increasing number of consumer devices. Faced with challenging market dynamics and increasing ROI pressure, more B2B marketers are using marketing automation platforms to manage complex, multi-touch buyer ecosystems. If you are a B2B …

Paid search spend growth held steady in Q4 with 14 percent growth year over year, according to Merkle’s latest Digital Marketing Report. That’s up from 13 percent growth seen in Q3. Google’s many changes, including device separation, helped drive growth. In Q4, CPCs were off just 0.5 percent, and click …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Merkle: Google Q4 search growth aided by changes other than ETAsJan 24, 2017 by Ginny Marvin Overall paid search growth remained steady in Q4. Separate device …