Often, when we think of optimizing our call to action (CTA), we immediately think of landing page buttons and tweaking colors. However, your landing page CTA isn’t the only marketing CTA that matters. To get people to your landing page, you need them to click on your ads, which means …
Read More »Last chance: SMX West kicks off next week. Be there!
SMX West is coming to sunny San Jose in just a few days, and we really hope to see you there! Join your SEO and SEM colleagues March 13-15 for in-depth learning and exceptional networking. You’ll leave stocked with fresh inspiration and the actionable tactics you need to get the …
Read More »Community Corner: Spotlight on Search Engine Land Award Winners Brainlabs & Trimark Digital
During the last five weeks, Search Engine Land has conducted a number of interviews with last year’s Search Engine Land Award Winners. In this week’s series, we are featuring Brainlabs and Trimark Digital. Brainlabs was awarded two trophies at last year’s event: Best Retail Search Marketing Initiative for SEM and …
Read More »SearchCap: Bing Entity Search API, Yelp’s new ad customization & Google’s Holi doodle
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Community Corner: Spotlight on Search Engine Land Award Winners Brainlabs Trimark Digital Mar 2, 2018 by Amy Gesenhues An interview series highlighting 2017’s Award winners: A …
Read More »Holi Google doodle celebrates the Hindu holiday with a colorful image of dhol players
Today’s Google doodle marks the start of Holi, the Hindu holiday signaling the end of winter and [insert great sigh of relief] beginning of Spring. Traditional Indian Holi festivals are centered around communities coming together to play music and dance while covering their landscape with vivid colored powder and water. …
Read More »Search in Pics: Google Dublin snow, dog racing & Noogler handbook
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more. Google Dublin got some snowy weather: Source: Instagram Source: Instagram Source: …
Read More »Yelp offers new ad customization to advertisers
Yesterday Yelp announced “custom ads” for small businesses. They offer advertisers on the platform the ability to select a desired review and image to appear in their ads. This is similar to TripAdvisor’s ad program allowing advertisers to feature a favorite review. Yelp says these ad units are being quickly …
Read More »What is GS1 SmartSearch Schema markup and why should e-commerce sites use it?
By now most of us should be familiar with Schema Product markup which can be leveraged for listings on e-commerce sites. The benefits of implementing this are serving up your product data in a structured format that is search engine friendly and has the potential to gain rich results such …
Read More »10 ways to increase calls from paid search
The massive increase in phone calls is one of the most notable side effects of the emergence of the mobile consumer. By 2019, BIA/Kelsey predicts 162 billion calls to businesses from mobile devices alone. With 70% of consumers using click to call from mobile search, it’s time to reimagine stale …
Read More »Bing Entity Search API is now available
Bing announced that their Bing Entity Search API is now available to US based users and also in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom regions. The Bing Entity Search API lets developers and creators programmatically pull in Bing Knowledge Graph structured data on …
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