Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. I am offline Monday and Tuesday but here are some useful scheduled stories that I wrote over the weekend and scheduled to be posted today. Sear…
Alexa users are suing Amazon over claims that the voice assistant app is targeting users with ads relevant to private recordings of users’ conversations. The central complaint. The main complaint of Alexa users is that the voice assistant is wrongly using voice recordings captured by Alexa …
Google has just announced three new features for travel and tour booking businesses. The new features are aimed at making it easier for people to book tickets and experiences right from Google, as well as giving businesses the ability to connect with potential customers. Ticket booking links…
In June we reported about a beta feature in Google Ads that gives Google the ability to automatically create assets for your ads . There is an opt-out feature but there is no way to opt out in mass. This beta got some more wind last week and advertisers are asking Google for a faster way to op…
On July 1, 2023, Google will move everyone to its latest version, Google Analytics 4 (GA4), and retire Google Analytics 3 (also known as Universal Analytics or UA). While these changes will benefit the average user without any noticeable difference in how they search and browse online, the…
Greg Finn and I have known each other for a pretty long time, so this video is pretty fun and we kind of go off topic a bunch but I promise, there is some knowledge throughout. We both miss the old days, the golden era, of search marketing – it was just a lot of fun. We dug into Greg’s professi…
LinkedIn can be a difficult platform to master, but with the right combinations of targeting and messaging brands can see success in generating results. Matched audiences allow you to reach people who have engaged with your business in some way and go after lists of “dream companies” that you…
Google has just announced its plans to launch a number of features aimed at helping publishers monetize their websites and increase their emphasis on first-party data relationships. The features include support for ads personalization with publisher first-party cookies in Google Ad Manager and AdSe…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google is still working on the timestamp issues for stories in Google Search. Google Ads has released the Google Ads API release schedule. Google …
Google just announced two new updates regarding first-party data and machine learning with Display and Video 360. The two new updates are optimized targeting and Exchange Provided Identifier, also known as EPID. Optimized targeting Optimized targeting helps advertisers expand their reach…
