Archive for January, 2023

Vlog #208: Jeff Ferguson On Starting His Own Digital Marketing Agency

2023/01/30

In part one, we go through Jeff Ferguson’s long history in search marketing. Here, in part two, we pick up with him starting his own agency…

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How to write a listicle (with 6 examples)

2023/01/30

One of the most popular formats for written online content is the humble listicle. 55% of bloggers say they’ve published a listicle in the last 12 months (only how-to articles rank higher).

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Unconfirmed Google Update Impacting Product Reviews Sites On Thursday, January 26th?

2023/01/30

On Thursday, January 26th, there were some signs of a possible Google search ranking algorithm update. The signals and chatter I was tracking, honestly, were not at super high levels

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Yandex Search Ranking Factors Leaked & Revealed

2023/01/30

Yandex had a boatload of its source code across all its technology allegedly leaked by a disgruntled employee and part of that was the source code for Russia’s largest search engine – Yandex. As you can imagine, SEOs and others are diving in and seeing what they can learn from the source code.

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Google: If You Redesign Your Site Your Rankings May Go Nuts

2023/01/30

Gary Illyes from the Google Search Relations team posted another PSA on LinkedIn. This time he said, “when you redesign a site, its rankings in search engines may go nuts.”

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Google: Don’t Use Relative Paths In Your rel-canonical

2023/01/30

Gary Illyes from from the Google Search Relations team posted another PSA on LinkedIn, this one says “don’t use relative paths in your rel-canonical.” Gary wants you to use the full, absolute URL, when it coms to rel-canonical.

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Google Ads News & Feature Announcements Dry Up

2023/01/30

The Google Ads team has not posted a new feature announcement or any new announcements on its new features and announcements page for about two and a half months, since November 17, 2022, and any Google Ads policy updates since mid-December.

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What Recent Data Shows About The Rising Importance of Human Touch-Points in B2B Marketing

2023/01/30

Are the human touch-points we use everyday as B2B marketers taking on greater importance in the face of record levels of digital content touched only by artificial intelligence (AI)? Facing increasing automation from ChatGPT and other AI-infused tools, B2B marketers are taking a closer look at our truly human touch-points to differentiate in the unique year that 2023 is shaping up to be. While savvy B2B marketers are sparingly using the power of AI to do more with less, some less sophisticated strategies have turned solely to AI-generated content, making differentiation between human and AI service more important than ever

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Yahoo is making a return to search

2023/01/30

Yahoo Search seems like it will be making a comeback in the future. Yahoo has been dropping hints over the past couple of weeks related to this return and is also hiring a Principal Product Manager for the Yahoo Search platform to help lead these initiatives

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