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This day in search marketing history: February 3

Search Engine Land

Also on this day Google will suspend merchant sites that show higher prices at checkout 2021: Starting on April 6, Google would begin enforcing price accuracy between Merchant Center feeds and checkout. Read all about it in How Google uses artificial intelligence In Google Search. wealth rather than merit).

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This day in search marketing history: February 25

Search Engine Land

“We don’t thrive & users don’t thrive unless the ecosystem thrives.” Google’s recent preview of its generative AI search results featured answers to complex questions that were made possible after being trained on content created by third-party publishers, with a grand total of zero links to publishers.

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This day in search marketing history: January 14

Search Engine Land

2020: Pointy had solved a problem that vexed startups for more than a decade: how to bring small, independent retailer inventory online. 2016: Amit Singhal, Google’s senior vice president of search, did almost all of his searches for more than a year on mobile devices. 2010: Query suggestions varied based on user location.

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This day in search marketing history: February 12

Search Engine Land

The New York Times was apparently perplexed by how well jcpenney.com ranked in organic search for practically everything the retailer sold. Google Won’t Provide SEO Certifications To Webmasters Or SEO Companies 2016: Google discussed internally if they should add an SEO certification program and decided not to do so.

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This day in search marketing history: February 7

Search Engine Land

Noogler: SEO is spam, ads help you rank In 2012, a Googler made headlines when he said “SEO isn’t good for users or the Internet at large,” and “It’s a bug that you could rank highly in Google without buying ads, and Google is trying to fix the bug.”

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These 7 Brands Take Personalized Marketing to a New Level

Hubspot Marketing

The retailer, it turned out, was able to predict her pregnancy and subsequently personalize the promotions she received, thanks in large part to a ton of (completely legal) data collection and analysis. It was an effort to reach millennials , in which each bottle contained one of the most popular first names assigned to that generation.

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How to Run Social Media Contests That Actually Increase Revenue

Sprout Social

Social media contests have been used by brands of all sizes to get more followers, increase engagement and generate buzz. They almost always explicitly ask for users to take some form of action, whether that’s a click, share or submission. — Save Your Sole (@saveyoursole) October 11, 2016. Through Oct.