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Tailor Your Feed: The Google Discover fan-out that surfaces niche sites
Here's why it opens a third visibility path for small sites, beyond implicit affinity and the Follow button.
Vanessa Fox on the birth of Google Search Console
From the super early days of Google through using AI today for SEO - we covered a lot in this interview.
What is AI, actually, and how is it affecting SEO?
Feeling overwhelmed by AI buzz? Learn what matters, what’s noise, and how to stay ahead when it comes to AI, LLMs, and generative tools.
Microsoft clarifies nonprofit ad grant program status
Microsoft’s Ads for Social Impact program offers nonprofits ad credits across Bing, MSN, Outlook, and more – but entry is waitlisted.
Microsoft Advertising: A comprehensive guide
Microsoft Ads offers unique targeting, lower costs and fewer competitors. Learn how to harness its potential for B2B, ecommerce and more.
How Microsoft Ads compares to Google Ads and when to use it
Thinking of expanding to Microsoft Ads? Learn its key similarities and differences with Google Ads, plus tips for getting started.
Top 7 Google Ads and SEO synergies you should act upon
Enhance your search marketing ROI by aligning PPC and SEO. Learn practical tips for collaboration and optimization across both channels.
How SEO moves forward with the Google Content Warehouse API leak
Addressing common questions, critiques and concerns following the massive Google Search leak and how your approach to SEO should change.
Is ChatGPT the Google Search killer we’ve been expecting?
The next Google won’t do what Google does. Could that be OpenAI? Sam Altman shares his vision for combining LLMs and a search engine.
This day in search marketing history: March 25
Google Panda patent granted, plus: Microsoft starts IndexNow push, mobile-friendly update details, AdWords remarketing and more.
This day in search marketing history: March 24
Google’s top 3 search ranking factors, plus: Google Maps blocks abusive business profile edits, Google penalties and more.
This day in search marketing history: March 17
Google AdWords further dilutes exact match, plus: DMOZ officially closes, Matt Cutts hints at HTTPS ranking signal and more.
This day in search marketing history: March 16
Google to sunset Universal Analytics, plus: Google's doorway page penalty, over-optimization, Chrome’s paid link penalty ends and more.
This day in search marketing history: March 14
Learn what happened on this day in search marketing history – including developments in SEO, PPC, search and digital marketing.
This day in search marketing history: March 12
Go inside a Google search quality meeting, plus: Google core search ranking algorithm update, how Google prices and ranks ads and more.
This day in search marketing history: March 1
Google publishes Search quality rating guidelines, plus: Ginny Marvin joins Google, AdWords Price Extensions, click fraud and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 28
R.I.P., DMOZ, plus: Multifaceted featured snippets, Google's non-answer on CTR, voice search ranking factors and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 18
Yahoo stops using Google search, plus: Core Web Vitals, RSAs become default, Google Shopping Campaigns For PLAs and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 14
Google Webmaster Tools comes out of beta, plus: Chrome's personal blocklist, AdWords video ads and quality score updates and more
This day in search marketing history: February 13
Google AMP stories launch, plus: unconfirmed algorithm updates, faceted navigation and infinite scroll, AdWords display URL policy and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 11
Yahoo officially rejects Microsoft, plus: passage ranking goes live, Google's SEO consulting services, Google Japan's link penalty and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 8
Google Chrome's 'not secure' warning, plus: Search Ads 360, Google News and Discover penalties, content farms and more.
Yandex scrapes Google and other SEO learnings from the source code leak
Yandex isn't Google, but there is a lot SEOs can learn about how a modern search engine is built from reviewing this codebase.
This day in search marketing history: January 17
The Google Speed Update, plus: links important for ranking, cross-device conversions, SOPA, Google Alerts and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 14
What happened when we turned off AMP, plus: Shopify's chat bug, comment spam, mobile first, missing tweets and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 13
Google's Matt Cutts search integrity tour, plus: core updates, Carol Bartz becomes Yahoo CEO, Baidu censors Google and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 11
Google's mobile intrusive interstitials penalty, plus: AdWords eases negative keyword management, Search Plus pushing Google+ and more.
Microsoft, BigCommerce team up to launch new marketplace Ads and Listings
The new collaboration allows BigCommerce merchants to reach millions of potential new customers across the Microsoft Advertising Network.
This day in search marketing history: January 7
The Spam Clock targets Google spam, plus: link removal request figures, loads of new tools and features, major search deals and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 4
Rap Genius gets out of Google jail, plus: how Rick Santorum made his Google problem worse, Yahoo's new CEO and more
What is social media marketing?
Learn what social media marketing is, how it helps brands gain more visibility on the web, and why it’s essential to your marketing strategy.
PPC management for ecommerce: 28 tools to explore
Software and tools not only help you manage your time better but provide helpful insights that you wouldn't otherwise see in a Google or Facebook interface.
Platforms that have suspended ads in Russia
In addition to political and economic sanctions, the conflict in Ukraine has prompted many crucial platforms to cut off advertiser access to Russian audiences.
Social media advertising is getting harder; Monday’s daily brief
Plus, the latest jobs in search marketing
No more Shopping Ads for digital books; Tuesday’s daily brief
Plus, here’s your guide to auditing for Core Web Vitals
Microsoft’s Digital Marketing Center for search and social management adds features, opens beta
The free platform is now open to U.S. small businesses.
Yahoo and other Verizon-owned search sites favor Verizon media properties [Study]
Study compared rankings for the same queries across six Bing-powered search sites, including Bing itself.
The PPC changes that bugged and elated marketers most in 2019: An unscientific poll
Close variants changes and poor customer support topped the list of grievances this year.
A eulogy for Mapquest
Once the dominant mapping site, the decline of Mapquest is a story of disruptive competition and corporate complacency.