Slop antibodies: The link between AI slop, watermarking, and commodity content
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For site moves, specify all domain variants with Google’s Change of Address tool
Google updated its help documentation to clarify how to handle all your domain variants for site moves.
Tools and software to manage AI crawlers accessing your site
Learn how to use AI crawler tools and software to optimize for AI crawlability, allow, block, or limit AI bots, audit crawling behavior, and implement controls.
Customers want personalized marketing. Why can’t most brands deliver?
Your customers may not use the phrase ‘personalized marketing,’ but they recognize it when it works.
Google says verify your cloud hosting provider with Search Console
If you are hosting images, videos or other content on third-party cloud services, you probably want to verify those in Search Console.
Google’s ad tech monopoly remedies trial begins
The DOJ’s ad tech remedies trial could crack open Google’s dominance of programmatic ads, reshaping transparency across the open web.
Amazon Ads launches AI tool that builds professional-quality ads
Amazon's new agentic AI tool in Creative Studio lets advertisers quickly turn product insights into polished, multi-format ad campaigns.
Think AI can scale personalization alone?
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Log file analysis for SEO: Find crawl issues & fix them fast
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Google Lens, Discover, and Voice Search serving issues
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Amazon opens advertising to other retailers
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5 ways to transform the customer experience with AI
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Amazon’s ad services revenue rises 27%, bringing in more than $14 billion in Q4
The retail giant exceeded digital advertising expectations and now predicts the strong performance to continue in 2024.
Amazon’s ad services revenue rises 26%, bringing in more than $12 billion in Q3
The retail giant has attributed its exceptional performance to investment in AI and its ongoing collaborations with ad partners.
Amazon’s ad services revenue rises 22%, bringing in more than $10 billion in Q2
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Amazon layoffs hit its advertising unit
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21 best ChatGPT alternatives
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Lost SEO traffic in 2021? Here are 3 potential reasons why (and how to recover your rankings heading into 2022)
From site speed to link spam, here is how to recover lost traffic in 2022.
SiteGround Google’s crawling and indexing issues fixed
After numerous days where sites hosted on SiteGround were blocking Google from indexing, the issue has been resolved this morning.
Messy SEO Part 3: How to find cached images and improve user experience
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If almost everyone uses Google, does that make it a public utility?; Thursday’s daily brief
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What to look at when considering a Digital Asset Management platform
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PPC 2018 in Review: These changes will have the biggest impact on advertisers in 2019
Significant shifts toward more automation affected nearly every aspect of the paid search landscape in 2018, and there were other important developments that will have a lasting impact in the new year.
Amazon now 3rd biggest digital ad seller in US
Amazon is still far behind Google and Facebook, but its advertising business is expected to keep skyrocketing.
SearchCap: Google Search Console adds features, Amazon advertising, Bing Webmaster Tools & more
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: The ultimate guide to using Bing Webmaster Tools – Part 3 Aug 15, 2018 by Christi Olson Bing Chief Evangelist and contributor Christi Olson reviews the Diagnostics & Tools and Security […]
Analysts say Amazon’s advertising business will surpass AWS by 2021
Amazon's ad revenue is on track to more than triple in the next couple of years, according to Piper Jaffray.
New Foursquare App Bets The Company On Personalization
After months of anticipation, the new Foursquare app has finally arrived. It will be available this morning from the three major app stores. The new app is built around two principal concepts: Tips and Tastes. It attempts to create a better “local search” experience using data (in the background) and personalization. Taking aim at Yelp […]
SearchCap: Foursquare Swarms, Facebook Search & Google Maps Explore
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: It’s Time For Marketers To Attend To The Branding Benefits Of Search Google recently released a study that concluded, “Search Ads Lift Brand Awareness.” The study tested brand recall for searchers […]
YP’s “Mybook” Makes Local Search More Social
Local search provider YP has been investing in its mobile app, doing brand advertising and generally seeking ways to better compete with rivals such as Google, Foursquare and Yelp. It doesn’t have the reach of Google or the content of Yelp but with its mybook feature the company may have found a way. MyBook was soft-launched […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 3, 2014
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 Fixing Reverse DNS GoogleBot Verification Google has confirmed that there are some GoogleBot useragent spiders not properly passing verification protocol. Savvy webmasters noticed that GoogleBot over the .249.70.0 /24 IP […]
Foursquare Gives iPhone Users Real-Time Recommendations & Rolls Out 2 New Search Features
Foursquare announced three new upgrades today. The location sharing app has extended its ‘Real-Time Recommendations‘ to iPhone users, and added two new search features: a ‘Nearby’ button and the ‘Friends at a Glance’ feature that displays most recent check-ins by friends. According to the announcement, the app’s look and feel has also been updated with, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 29, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Foursquare Now: Update Intros Location-Aware Alerts Call it “Foursquare Now.” Today the company announced that it would begin rolling out a new push recommendations feature, initially to Android users and later […]
Foursquare Now: Update Intros Location-Aware Alerts
Call it “Foursquare Now.” Today, the company announced that it would begin rolling out a new push recommendations feature, initially to Android users and later to iOS. Based on the billions of check-ins, likes and other social data Foursquare has accumulated, the updated app will proactively send alerts about places and venues, without any required […]
New Google Maps App For iOS Includes Dedicated iPad Experience
Just a few hours after opening up the new Google Maps desktop version to anyone interested, Google has followed up by announcing new Google Maps apps for iOS. The big news is that, for the first time, there’s a dedicated iPad experience of Google Maps. Sure, you could use the previous Google Maps app on […]
Foursquare Updates Android & iOS App With New “Super-Specific” Search Filters
Foursquare has added new search filters that allow Android and iOS users to make “super-specific” searches, filtering by price, locations where users have or haven’t checked in before, locations ‘friends have checked in’, if a location is ‘open now’, and if a location is ‘offering specials’. To demonstrate how specific users can be when searching for […]
Exploring The New More Dynamic, More Social Google Maps
At the Google Developer conference keynote this morning in San Francisco, one of the clear highlights was the introduction of a redesigned Google Maps experience for the PC and mobile. The New Google Maps are available now with an invitation. Already the leading digital and mobile mapping service, the various feature and UI improvements put […]
Google Was Nearly A Site That Allowed Users To Order Pizza Through A Fax Machine
Last year, Sergey Brin gave a speech at Google Ventures CEO Summit on the value of failing, and how failing fast can be beneficial. One of the subjects that he covered was his original foray into building a Web service some 20 years ago — the service that allowed users to order pizzas by harnessing […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 20, 2012
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’s Policing Of Duplicate Ad Sitelinks Extensions Misses Apparent Violator — Itself AdWords advertisers know that Google has plenty of policies by which you must abide, like Ad Sitelinks extensions can’t […]
Facebook Gets Into Local Search With “Facebook Nearby” For iOS & Android
As of today, you can count Facebook as a potentially significant new competitor in local search — on mobile devices. The company is updating the “Nearby” feature in its iOS and Android apps Nearby Becomes Local Search Tool Previously Nearby was about finding where your friends had checked-in. After the app update Nearby will still […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 19, 2012
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: The Pillars Of Strategic SEO & A Primer On Website Design Every serious business website must be built around relevant, business-critical keywords and phrases, and done in a strategic manner. This […]