Google’s shocking ad ban [It’s clickbait]
We’ll save you a click. Google’s banning click bait ads.
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Don’t Do That: Email Marketing Lessons From My 26 Year Spam Archive
What makes for strong long-term email marketing, and what can email marketers learn from a 26 year archive of spam? In 1994 I started archiving the funniest and most outlandish spam emails I received, and throughout the rest of the ‘90s I sent out an annual holiday compendium of the year’s top unsolicited messages. Over the years friends and associates began sending me their own wild spam finds, and although I ceased my annual updates long ago, I’ve kept up my spam archive — a trove of email marketing horrors, hi-jinks, and oftentimes hilarity that I still hope to turn into a book someday
Google Pulled Ads From Two Conservative Websites via @martinibuster
Offensive content caused two websites to lose their advertising. This is what you should know so it doesn’t happen to you
Google adding local store details to Shopping, free Promoted Pins for Smart campaigns, more
New features and updates are aimed at local businesses and services in the “reopening phase.” Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
Google Nofollow Change Might Be About Fixing Webmaster Mistakes
Google published its first podcast named Search Off the Record and in that podcast, Gary Illyes from Google talked a bit more about all the nofollow link changes coming. He said again that he is working on something but it seems like these changes won’t be a huge deal
A Clever Google Query Modifier
Omar Ortiz shared a search result query modifier feature from Google search with me on Twitter that is pretty clever. It shows that when you search on Google for [how much do you need to retire] Google is smart enough to ask you different ages that you want to retire at.
Google My Business Pulling Data From Facebook
It looks like Google My Business is able to pull data from Facebook to show in the Google Maps and Google Search local panels. Here is an example from Tom Waddington of a plumber listing that shows the owner’s name and the source of that information shows Facebook.com
The State of Local SEO Industry Report 2020, Announced
Posted by MiriamEllis Moz’s very warmest thanks to the 1,453 respondents who volunteered time to contribute to this second installation of our industry survey. It’s rewarding to have such a large survey group; as this report details in high relief, the work of marketing a single business location can pass through a dozen hands
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 16, 2020
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…