I know what you’re thinking. “I’m going on a trip to Cape May, NJ and need a true ‘hidden gem’ of a travel guide.” Well, if by some extreme fluke, you see one of BuzzFeed’s AI-assisted content in your search results, here’s my recommendation: avoid it. That’s because BuzzFeed has published 20 low-quality travel articles under the byline “As Told to Buzzy.” They’re all super formulaic and written in the first-person point of view
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These 44 hilariously terrible BuzzFeed travel articles were AI-assisted
Search marketers design, run and optimize campaigns –
Google’s ad business will celebrate its 23rd year this fall, but not before paid search undergoes massive changes. As traditional search evolves with the advent of AI-powered functionality, so will pay-per-click (PPC) advertising . It’s unlikely Google will sit idly by and take massive revenue hits as paid placements decline
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How paid placements will evolve alongside AI-powered search
Google finished rolling out the March 2023 broad core update on Tuesday, and it took about 13 days to roll out. Microsoft said they are exploring sharing ad revenue from Bing Chat with publishers through the Microsoft Start program. Microsoft executives…
You’ve heard of a business mission statement – but have you also heard of a content marketing mission statement? This is an important piece of text that should head up your content strategy. Outlining your content marketing mission statement will give your content efforts a greater purpose.
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How to write a content marketing mission statement
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Microsoft Bing is testing adding an “official site” label in the search results. If you search for a specific site, you may find that Bing adds to the title of the search result snippet the words “Official Site.”
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Bing Tests Official Site Label
Google has extended the Google Ads Government documents and official services policy for several weeks, from March 31, 2023, to May 24, 2023. This was previously announced in late January, and we covered it, but now Google made two changes to that announcement.
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Google Ads Pushes Government Documents and Official Services Policy To May 24, 2023
Google Business Profiles seems to allow some restaurants to copy a menu that it thinks it pulled for that restaurant from another source and use that copied menu to start to build your own menu in Google Business Profiles.
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Google Business Profiles Let’s You Copy A Menu
Google Search seems to be testing a new product carousel titles “products gaining attention.” I assume this carousel shows products that are being viewed or clicked on more often than they were previously, but I am not sure.
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Google Search Tests Products Gaining Attention Carousel
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Google’s John Mueller is no longer recommending you verify all the variations of your domain with Google Search Console. Instead, he said, keep it simple and verify using domain verification.
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Here Is Why John Mueller No Longer Recommends Verifying All Google Search Console Property Types