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Google Rebuilt Search Around AI. Don’t Throw Away Your SEO Playbook.

IN THIS ISSUE: Google didn’t just update Search at I/O this week. It rebuilt it around AI, with consequences for every marketer who has spent years optimizing for a SERP that no longer looks the same. This issue examines what the shift from SEO to Answer Engine Optimization actually means for businesses trying to stay […]

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Search Impressions Soar with Google’s AI Overview, Even as Website Clicks Decline

It’s been a year since Google introduced AI Overview to its widely used search engine. The feature significantly transformed how people discovered information online, displaying information summaries above traditional search results. At the time, Google’s Vice President of Search, Liz Reid, proclaimed that AI Overview links would deliver more clicks and “valuable traffic to publishers […]

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The Transformation of Online Advertising To Social Advertising

Recently I’ve started to delve into Facebook’s advertising platform. Initially it struck me a bit confusing as I tried to look at setting up a campaign. Normally if you were going to create a campaign, you’d focus on the keywords and your daily price on what you feel comfortable bidding on. But instead, Facebook’s ad […]

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Thoughts On Google’s +1 and The Gamesmanship of Search Marketing

In my last post, I alluded to Google’s +1 service as part of the search engine’s attempt to become social. While that post was primarily meant to briefly call out +1, the more that I thought about it, the more it seemed that it should be its post. Why? Because there are some issues at […]

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Search Marketing “In-A-Box” Made Possible By Yield Software

Last month’s SF New Tech event produced some good applications that have some real applicability to businesses. I’ve dabbled in online advertising and have worked with folks at Yahoo Search Marketing and other third-party vendors and also tried my hand at putting together keywords and text ads in Google AdWords, but a couple of issues […]

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Turning to the Internet for Success during a Recession – Part 3 – Online Advertising

As with all typical marketing programs, companies feel that they must advertise in every medium to get the word out about their product. With the Internet, this is all done through online advertising. What exactly is online advertising? Well, you have your typical Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), and banner advertising, and […]

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Your analytics can provide you with info on your content

About a week or so ago, I saw a tweet on Twitter from my friend Shashi, Network Solution’s Social Media Swami, with an interesting dilemma: he saw on that people were coming to his blog after searching for the phrase “what does interspersed mean”. Interestingly enough, what he said caused me to write this post. […]