You’ve probably used Looker Studio (formerly Google Data Studio) to create reports for stakeholders or clients. I had the pleasure of seeing SearchLab’s Greg Gifford present on “Freddy Krueger’s Guide to Scary Good Reporting” recently. He spoke about ways to improve your Looker Studio reporting to make it more useful for clients. Below are key ..
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Google may soon be facing fresh legal action over copyright issues from the owner of the Daily Mail. The search engine allegedly has illegally taken hundreds of thousands of the newspaper’s articles to train its ChatGPT rival, Bard. Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), the publishing house owned by Lord Rothermere, has reportedly already sought ..
When your industry is over-saturated, chances for ranking higher on search engines become harder. SEO tools give you keywords variations of your main keyword. But in order to attract new users, you need new keywords that people search while, at the same time, none of your competitors is targeting. The challenge is this: how do ..
How does SEO content help increase sales? Many brands make the mistake of relegating search engine optimization (SEO) to ranking websites and driving targeted traffic. They never align it with their sales efforts, leaving a huge gap in their business growth strategy. However, if executed well, SEO can help you significantly boost your sales. And ..
Google has confirmed it fixed the ongoing issue with Google News indexing. This resulted in many publishers seeing massive traffic declines from Google News for a three-week period, starting around June 21st. The update. Google posted an update at 5:06 pm ET today, saying, “We fixed the issue with News indexing. There will be no ..
A brand SERP is the results Google serves when a user searches for your brand name. A digital strategy is how a brand positions itself across the online ecosystem. I have been talking about brand SERPs since 2013. I’ve learned that a brand SERP isn’t just a “pretty Google Business Card.” When you bake SEO ..
SEO conversions and tracking go well beyond a direct sale or lead in your pipeline. They can be: Newsletter and SMS subscribers that turn into sales. Win-back campaigns where customers haven’t shopped yet or rediscovered you. Bringing job seekers to your job listing pages, resulting in lower costs of hiring new employees. If you only ..
One of the fastest developing and potentially essential shifts in search marketing is artificial intelligence (AI), specifically generative AI. Generative AI is poised to change the nature of the search engine results page (SERP). Thus, strategies for managing digital marketing campaigns must also evolve. We see it now with the new Bing, powered by ChatGPT, ..
Marketers have criticized Google Analytics 4 since it was released in late 2020. The list of complaints is long – from the move from user tracking to event tracking, to the missing standard reports, and the replacement of bounce rate with engagement rate, to name just a few. GA4 is the predominant platform for measuring website performance ..
The boom of generative AI products over the past few months has prompted many websites to take countermeasures. The basic concern goes like this: AI products depend on consuming large volumes of content to train their language models (the so-called large language models, or LLMs for short), and this content has to come from somewhere. ..
