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What Should My Team Do After a Major Google Algorithm Update?
Hopefully, your brand has been committed and invested in its SEO program for many years. If so, the notion of a core algorithm update is likely welcome news as you know you’re doing the ‘right things’ that will continue to drive incremental growth from organic search. If you are not in this group, keep reading.
In-Housing Trends Continue
Gartner’s Annual CMO Spend Survey is always an interesting read. It provides a peak into the minds of CMOs and the issues they are dealing with leading large marketing organizations. One thing that clearly continues to be top of mind is the trend of in-housing work that, historically, was managed by agency partners.
Is Google Monetizing Local Search?
One of the most significant trends in search over the last five years has been the emergence of voice search. Whether it’s through the growth in home smart speakers or the increased adoption and use of mobile phones as user’s primary means of accessing the internet, search volume and, increasingly, voice search volume has seen explosive growth.
The Importance of the Marketing Mix
One of the more challenging things I’ve experienced in my career is working with companies that do not understand or appreciate the unique role each channel plays in a comprehensive marketing plan. When I think of how marketing should work, I think of the analogy of baking a cake.
The Impact of BERT on the SEO Industry
What is BERT? It stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers and is meant to help Google better understand the context and complexity of words that people search for in order to return results that best match the user’s search intent.
Paid Search Trends
You may have heard terms like ‘Automated Bidding’, ‘App Campaigns’, ‘Smart Campaigns’ or ‘Dynamic Search Ads’. All of these are enhancements that Google has added to Google Ads to make Paid Search campaigns easier to manage and, hopefully, more effective.
The Ever-Changing Nature of Search Engines
Google tweaks and adjusts their algorithms many thousands of times per year. Most updates are small and have no direct impact on your website’s Organic rankings or traffic – but they’re happening behind the scenes all the time.
New Media vs. Old Media: How Should Your Marketing Plan Evolve?
In many cases, marketing leaders are brought in and asked to “modernize marketing”. I worked with a company that specifically recruited me to come in and help make the company “digital first”.
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