SEO

Every marketer worth their salt is concerned about incrementality. Companies have, and should be, reevaluating their budgets, channels and service providers based on the ability to drive sales from advertising that they wouldn’t have captured otherwise. When it comes to Amazon, this issue is particularly important, because current SERPs can …

Consumers are calling for protection from fake reviews. That’s one of the key findings from a new survey from Bazaarvoice. The company polled roughly 10,000 consumers in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany and Australia and discovered that 72% of consumers want retailers to take stronger action and create standards to …

No-click search results are much less of a factor where (commercial) queries trigger the appearance of ads. There are significant differences in CTRs for position 1 for branded and non-branded queries. And featured snippets don’t impact CTRs in the aggregate. Those are the three major findings by Perficient Digital in …

  Google has updated its content guidelines for the FAQ schema that says you can no longer markup the same question and answer with FAQ schema if that question and answer is in multiple pages on your site. Google said just mark it up on one of those FAQ pages, …

Everyone understands the value of increased organic traffic or a higher rate of conversions. That’s because these metrics are closest to the money. But some top-of-the-funnel rewards for creating high-quality content can contribute a significant amount to your growth, and they center around your brand’s perception. Brand awareness is often …

  Everyone knows there’s more than one decision-maker in a complex B2B sale. But too often, companies don’t have insights into what the broader buying group is thinking and doing because they don’t have the right processes in place. As a result, revenue suffers. Join Forrester’s Kerry Cunningham and Openprise’s …

Google Developers announced a new official Google Lighthouse Firefox extension Wednesday. Google’s Lighthouse is an open source software (OSS) project with a few different integration points. There has been at least one port of the reporting tool for use as a Firefox extension. Firefox had not yet reviewed the extension, …

As of Sunday, Mar. 1, Google is treating the nofollow link attribute as a hint, rather than a directive, for crawling and indexing purposes. Google is already treating all link attributes (sponsored, UGC and nofollow) as hints for ranking purposes and has been doing so since it made the original …

Over time, Google Maps and Google My Business have increasingly encroached on Yelp’s core value proposition: local business search and reviews. And Yelp has tried to fight back with new features and capabilities to stay one step ahead of Google. Waitlist upgrades. This week is a case-in-point: the company added …

Planning your paid social campaigns well ahead of your peak periods — whether seasonal, holiday or promotional — help ensure you hit your goals. Michelle Stinson Ross, marketing operations director at Apogee Results, offered tips on how advertisers can get the most out of seasonal social ads at SMX West …