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44 Best ChatGPT Prompts for SEO
Discover powerful SEO prompts for ChatGPT. Optimize content, keywords, audits, and more with ready-to-use prompts built for SEO pros in 2025.
Nostalgia: your untapped local marketing opportunity
Nostalgia might be the missing piece you need to combine with social listening & brand monitoring to resonate with your target audience.
Decoding ad spend: Key insights from the 2024 presidential election
Comparing the marketing strategies of both candidates, we'll examine spending breakdowns, tactics and factors that shaped the outcome.
OpenAI starts testing SearchGPT prototype, here’s what it looks like
SearchGPT is a temporary prototype. ChatGPT plans to integrate search features from SearchGPT into ChatGPT in the future.
Google Ads gambling and games policy updated
Effective immediately, advertisers can now run sports betting ads in North Carolina provided they have certification.
Google sued by USA Today publisher amid falling ad revenue fears
Gannett is suing Google for allegedly breaking American antitrust laws and causing a crucial drop in ad revenue for news publishers.
Google Ad business faces breakup after being charged with EU antitrust violations
Google may be forced to sell part of its ads business after the EU charged the search engine with antitrust violations.
9 more states join federal antitrust lawsuit against Google
The Biden administration has sought to toughen antitrust enforcement. Alongside the Google lawsuit, it is also challenging multiple proposed mergers.
TikTok CEO faces congress over security concerns
The US government, worried about China's manipulation, seeks to manipulate TikTok to do what it wants.
This day in search marketing history: February 12
Google penalizes JCPenney for link scheme, plus: Google SEO certifications, Automated Bidding overhaul, canonical tag announced and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 2
Google's revamped Partners program, plus: Bing again denies copying Google results, YouTube using Amazon's algorithm and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 19
Google's page layout algorithm, plus: Matt Cutts resigns from Google, Top Stories deduplication, mobile usability warnings and more.
Instagram Reel ads are the new TikTok competitor; Monday’s daily brief
Plus, Google cuts down FAQ in SERPS
Moz acquired by iContact, subsidiary of J2 Global
Organic search and email marketing are some of the most powerful marketing channels brands have, so it will be interesting to see how Moz and iContact integrate.
YouTube may start showing ads on non-monetized videos; Snapchat launches Public Profiles for Businesses; Monday’s daily brief
Plus, Google expands ways to reach new and returning app users and update in-app event tracking
In search of your most memorable moments; Monday’s daily brief
Plus, only YouTube and Reddit have seen much usage growth since 2019.
Facebook unfriends Australia and Maryland passes ad tax; Monday’s daily brief
Plus, Google's Search Central Live conference is right after SMX Report
Nearly 50 states’ attorneys general join in antitrust investigation of Google
Facebook is also being investigated in another multistate action lead by New York.
Google Files Suit Against SEO Firm Accused Of Robocalling, Launches Complaint Center For Users
The company finally takes defensive action against illegal robocallers that prey on small businesses.
Bing Maps Adds Hundreds Of Streetside & 3D City Images; Plus New HD Aerial Images
Bing announced a large maps update today, where they have added hundreds of Streetside images, 3D city images and new high resolution aerial images. Bing Maps now has over a 100 cities that support Streetside imagery available across America. The images are available in these cities: Alameda County, CA Fresno, CA Richmond, VA, Anaheim, CA […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 7, 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: Penguin 5, With The Penguin 2.1 Spam-Filtering Algorithm, Is Now Live The fifth confirmed release of Google’s “Penguin” spam fighting algorithm is live. That makes it Penguin 5 by our count. […]
Google AdWords Geo-Targeting: Have We All Been Doing It Wrong?
It’s rare that a true challenge to a best practice (and a seemingly straightforward one at that) arises. But, when Marta Turek, Group Manager, Performance Media at Mediative presented case studies showing what happened when they tested an opt-out versus the traditional opt-in approach to geo-targeting in AdWords at SMX Advanced this year, jaws dropped. […]
VP Debate Spurs Searches Like “Shirtless” (Ryan), “Laughing” (Biden) & Other “Malarkey”
There’s a kind of Pavlovian response that happens with major national events in the U.S. (and probably elsewhere): internet users taking to the web to comment on and/or learn more about what they’re experiencing. As expected, conversation spiked on social networking sites during the Vice Presidential debate last night. Twitter says there were 3.5 million […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 25, 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: Eric Schmidt Floats Idea Of A Yahoo-Google Search Partnership Apple, Google and mapping apps weren’t the only thing that Eric Schmidt spoke about today in Tokyo. Forbes is reporting that Schmidt […]
Search Marketer Ron Jones Passes Away
Internet and search marketer Ron Jones has passed away after a battle with melanoma over the past several months. Jones was the founder and owner of Symetri Corporation, where a notice of his death has now been posted. SEMPO, the search marketing group that Jones was a board member with from 2008 through 2010, including […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 22, 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 Provides Competitive Information In New Auction Insights Report AdWords marketers’ days of regularly refreshing on all their keywords may be over — or at least that activity may not be […]
Link Building Tool Review: Link Prospector
Our link building tool review series continues today with Link Prospector by Citation Labs. A joint venture between Garrett French and Darren Shaw, Link Prospector is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina and has been online since February 2012. Garrett and Darren continue to add features to the tool, foreign-language support and an API are scheduled to […]
Google Takes Top Floor In Silicon Roundabout & Builds Three Data Centers In Asia
Google boosts London’s Silicon Roundabout from BBC News reports Google has signed a ten year deal to lease the entire top floor of the seven floor building in what is known as the Silicon Roundabout. The Silicon Roundabout currently has about 300 firms in the area and it is located in the Old Street area […]
Matteo Lopez Wins The 2011 Doodle 4 Google Competition
Google has announced the winner of the 2011 Google 4 Doodle, “What I’d like to do someday.” The winner is Matteo Lopez of South San Francisco, California for his logo named “Space Life.” Matteo Lopez’s answer to the question “what I’d like to do someday?” was “become an astronaut and explore space life.” Here is […]
Google To Open Office In Beverly Hills
The Hollywood Reported reports Google is opening an office in Beverly Hills, California. Google is opening a 13,465-square-foot office, which will be the space used by Google’s entertainment division. That includes some of the YouTube staff and others involved in that area. The location is at 331 Foothill Rd, Beverly Hills and the move is […]
US Lawmakers Voice Concerns Over Google-ITA Deal
Add a few US legislators to the list of parties that are airing concerns over Google’s plan to purchase air travel software provider ITA. According to All Things Digital, two US House members and the Missouri Attorney General sent letters this week to Christine Varney, US Asst. Attorney General in the Antitrust Division, to express […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 12, 2010
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 Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island Logo Saturday, November 13th is Robert Louis Stevenson’s 160th birthday. Robert Louis Stevenson is a famous writer including some works Treasure Island, A Child’s Garden […]
Doodle 4 Google Winner Announced: Melton’s Rainforest Habitat
Google announced the winner of the 3rd annual Doodle 4 Google competition. The Doodle is viewable above and will be displayed on the Google home page tomorrow, May 27th. The winner was Makenzie Melton, a third grader at El Dorado Springs R-2 Schools in El Dorado Springs, Missouri for her “Rainforest Habitat” doodle. Besides for […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 27, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Chinese Newspaper Says Google Censored Its Web Site Oh, the irony: The People’s Daily, the main newspaper of China’s Communist Party, says Google censored its web site by adding a malware […]
Advocacy Group Appeals Right To Sue Over Google’s North Carolina Tax Break
The Charlotte Observer reports the N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law appealed the decision to not allow them to sue over Google receiving tax breaks for picking North Carolina for a server farm. The advocacy group argues that the tax benefits given to Google will ultimately cost North Carolina’s tax payers more, to make up for […]
Google Showing Local Results On Non-Local Queries
Google is rewriting the local search space. They’re now showing local search results — a map, business listings, and more — even when searchers use generic terms that don’t include a local word. This was spotted in London last week, written about on Saturday by a California florist, and spread widely yesterday when Mike Blumenthal […]
Search Biz: Google News Courting Legal Trouble?, Bold Predictions About Behavioral Ad Targeting & More
Will the recent introduction of paid ads on Google News lead to legal issues for Google? That question is discussed today on ClickZ, where Sandra Baron of the Media Law Resource Center says publishers will be looking at what Google is doing: “A significant issue for content providers is whether or not what Google provides […]
Search Biz: Ballmer Talks Yahoo Deal; Google Slows Down In NC & Fires Back At Net Neutrality Critics
In a fairly lengthy interview this morning, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tells the Wall Street Journal that he’s still interested in a deal with Yahoo, but says there are no talks happening right now. Perhaps to get that ball rolling again, though, Ballmer says a deal “would probably be better for both us, and certainly […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 5, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.