TikTok has come for Google's ad business at its most vulnerable time by allowing advertisers to target its search results page - making keywords the "backbone" of the tool.
While advertisers are in a period of rising ad prices, that could change in the second half of the year, according to a report released Wednesday.
An ad campaign launched Monday from Semrush redefines success and shows marketers how to forge a new path to freedom.
Mordy Oberstein, head of the SEO brand at Israeli software company Wix, shared data on social media platforms that had him "literally shaking." Oberstein found misinformation, decay and hatred -- not
only in the U.S., but worldwide.
Ad and marketing agencies are split on how to price paid ad and organic services. Many marketers still prioritize optimizing keyword research despite all the technology available to do tasks, a survey
found.
Measure, calibrate, and optimize are part of a new strategy outlined by Integral Ad Science in a white paper released Tuesday.
A Google research paper on TW-BERT describes how a new framework improves search rankings without requiring major changes because it integrates with existing query expansion models and improves
performance.
How people craft prompts to get more information from ChatGPT ranges from simple messages to long and elaborate descriptions using action words and nouns.
Elon Musk has placed limits on the number of posts users could read in a temporary move that targets "extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation" by other companies. limits," Musk tweeted
Saturday. Twitter users with verified accounts were limited to reading 6,000 posts per day. Unverified account users were limited to reading 600 posts per day. New unverified accounts were limited
to reading 300 per day.
Brands can expect more targeted ads closer to the point of sale as generative AI continues to roll out at Google and Microsoft, according to recently released insights.
NP Digital's research paper outlines findings from anonymous data collected by the company's platforms from Ubersuggest, and Answer The Public. It shows how trends like changes in Google's algorithms
and product updates in 2022 with change the industry in 2023. It also looks at changes that Microsoft made to cement it's resurgence in advertising.
Magna points to "robust growth" of 19% in keyword formats including search and retail media during first-half 2022, and forecasts retail media advertising will increase from $31 billion this year to
$42 billion in 2023. Out-of-home, another strong area, has seen 30% growth.
The product, AnswerThePublic, will be integrated into NP Digital's UberSuggest to give users visual images of Google searches and content ideas.
It's easier for consumers to forgive a person than a business. A study shows marketers need to carefully consider language used in campaigns, as consumers are sensitive to the words used.
Attributing search results to source documents could help verify the accuracy of information. Researchers build transparent language models designed to evaluate sources.
Baird Equity Research is tracking search trends as students go back to school this fall. The search data skewed flat to lower for most keywords, with 22 of 60 terms declining more than 5%, according
to the data.
SEO is not one size fits all. What works for one keyword group may not work for another. Here's why.
Among the top 22 market-share holders in skincare, 17 are publishers or informational websites -- capturing 62.34% of available search traffic.
Marketers supporting healthcare clients must provide accurate, relevant messaging that conveys empathy, strength and positivity despite keyword restrictions. Google enforces tight restrictions for
the keywords marketers can use.
How does a global brand like the Four Seasons Hotel & Resorts oversee media buys for 100+ properties, yet still manage to increase website bookings, boost revenue, and drive incrementality to channels
like SEO and direct for each hotel? Very strategically. Traditionally, the luxury hotel chain's media budgets were fixed and held at property level. That is until their agency, Acronym,
realized it was limiting their advertising reach. Instead, after a successful test pilot, Acronym unified Four Seasons' media buys, and the corporate office essentially gave them what amounts to a
"blank check," which enabled them to provide a more strategic and aggressive media investment.
Is it possible to become one of the go-to websites for your industry within a mere 7 months? It is if you're Adobe XD, and you strategically develop an extensive SEO and content strategy prior to its
launch. As a relative unknown in the UX/UI design space, Adobe XD needed to do some investigating before launching Adobe XD Ideas. They conducted in-depth keyword, competitive and content gap research
that enabled them to prioritize the topics that UX/UI design professionals were searching for online.
SEMrush's report analyzes data on Google, Twitter and other platforms as well as visits, backlinks and social shares and the correlation between metrics and elements such as text length, headlines,
structure, the presence of visuals, the price of terms and the perfect length for descriptions.
Do marketers really know how their target audience feels about their products, or about topics related to their brand?
Google is introducing the gender intent of the searcher for certain keywords without consumers adding a gender-based term in their query. Searchmetrics has suggestions for how to approach the
challenge.
Search volume is a strong indicator of what people think and do, and several companies are tracking progress through Google Search. Volume is leaning toward out-of-home activities, although many
keywords are trending down from the prior week, according to Robert W. Baird Analyst Colin Sebastian, who has been keeping an eye on trending keywords in Google search.
Vice said news content related to George Floyd and related protests has been monetized at a rate 57% lower than other non-protest-related news content. Over the past few weeks, Vice has seen new words
added to keyword advertisers' "blocklists" that include: "George Floyd", "Black Lives Matter", "protest", "Minneapolis" and "black" people, according to a study released during the group's IAB
NewFronts presentation, presented by Marsha Cooke, senior vice president of Vice Impact.
More than one in three small businesses -- at 37%, down from 40% in 2019 -- don't have a website, according to a recent survey.
SEMrush analysts pulled and analyzed search keywords for three websites -- mikebloomberg.com, elizabethwarren.com and donaldtrump.com -- to determine which keywords each campaign manager bid on in
November 2019.
Microsoft Advertising has released what it is calling a product negative keyword conflicts report for shopping campaigns to ensure ads don't serve up in response to irrelevant search queries.
"Niche players are doing very well," says Jim Leichenko, Kantar director of marketing, media division. Consumer products goods advertisers are also taking advantage of the back-to-school season.