The third-party browser tracking cookie is dead. What’s next?
Marketers have relied on third-party tracking cookies for the last 25 years to track consumer behavior online. Nearly all ad tech and martech...
Here’s how e-commerce stores can sell smarter on YouTube, Facebook and Amazon
SMX Advanced speakers Joe Martinez of Clix, Susan Wenograd of AimClear and Danielle Waller of Merkle offer helpful tips for anyone selling...
How to maximize social media traffic to your site
How good exactly is social media at generating referral traffic? Let’s look at the facts. As of 2019, there are 4.39 billion Internet users in...
Welcome to the Golden Age of competitive research
One of the largest opportunities we have as PPC marketers is to seize the moment when competitors have stopped paying...
7 best social media monitoring tools for any business
People have always talked about brands and products. They’ve praised and complained about companies in the dining rooms, by the water cooler,...
Facebook starts testing ads in search results
The test inventory will be available in Facebook and Marketplace search results....
Facebook demystifies its search platform, says searches performed off-site don’t factor
The company issued an explainer on how Facebook search works....
Election 2018: Social media trolls, Google touts search, video ads get ugly
Gone are the days when the internet was simply a tool to learn more about candidates and issues....
6 of the best social listening tools for 2019
In your personal life, reading people’s minds is a questionable superpower; but the business benefits of being able to listen in on people’s...
When Facebook went down, direct traffic to news sites went up
Facebook users turned to Google search or went directly to publishers....
How to reach consumers while protecting their privacy
The debate surrounding probabilistic versus deterministic cross-device tracking is nothing new. But with the rapidly evolving online landscape...
How to take advantage of strategic PPC audience targeting
Contributor Amy Bishop shows us how to use audiences within paid search campaigns to target and convert prospects more...
Should you keep your best content on your site or send it away?
Contributor Julie Joyce looks at the pros and cons of keeping content on your site versus sending it...
How social networks usurp Google’s local search dominance
Google may dominate most results, but not local search. Contributor Wesley Young looks at how Facebook and other social networks take a...
Finally! The 800 million ways Facebook gets serious about local business
Contributor Adam Dorfman explains how to capitalize on the one-two punch of Facebook advertising and organic engagement through Marketplace,...
Search and direct mobile navigation surpass Facebook as traffic referrers
The shift is likely the result of Facebook algorithm changes, but other factors may also be at work....
Google rolls out new ID requirements for US political ads
Due to increased scrutiny of how these ads affect users and voters, company says more transparency intiatives are to...
Facebook & Cambridge Analytica: What we know, what they knew & where that leaves us
A brief history of the many privacy disasters at the world's dominant social media platform, and what the most recent data exposure means for...
Does Cambridge Analytica have your info? Here’s how to check
Facebook is making it easy for users to find out if their data was scraped and is launching a data abuse bounty program to report app...
5 conversion boosters to optimize your PPC campaigns
Earlier this year, Facebook broke some bad news. Organic reach is officially being choked, making it harder for brands to reach the audiences...