Fri.Oct 04, 2024

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Google’s cookie pivot leaves 88% of industry in uncertainty: IAB

Martech

Google’s pivot on deprecating third-party cookies has caused uncertainty in the digital advertising industry. Originally set for 2022, the plan faced multiple delays since its announcement in January 2020, leading to doubts about Google’s commitment. The move has sparked speculation about the future of privacy-focused advertising and the impact on businesses that have been preparing for a cookieless future.

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How AI is advancing advertising and changing consumer engagement

Search Engine Land

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing consumer engagement and transforming the landscape of search, according to James Murray of Microsoft Advertising, who spoke at SMX Advanced. Here are the key points he raised in his presentation, exploring the paradigm shift in search technology and its implications for advertisers and marketers. The expanded search box: A gateway to nuanced queries Murray highlighted a seemingly small but significant change in search: the expansion of the search b

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Is NotebookLM the New CliffsNotes? (The Answer May Surprise You)

Content Marketing Institute

Google’s relatively new NotebookLM harkens us back to CliffsNotes, the savior of students who didn’t read the book. But what’s the best use of this AI tool that can even create podcast-style summaries? Here are some thoughts.

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Branding Comes First, Says Sharma Brands Owner

Practical eCommerce - Marketing

Per Nik Sharma, positive name identity leads to affordable customer acquisition and retention. The post Branding Comes First, Says Sharma Brands Owner appeared first on Practical Ecommerce.

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How to Create a Community Your Members Can't Get Enough Of

Here’s Your Blueprint for Year-Round Member Engagement. Are you ready to transform your association into a thriving, 365-day community? Download GrowthZone’s ebook, How to Create a Community Your Members Can’t Get Enough Of , and learn strategies for leveling out the peaks and valleys of member engagement. This guide provides actionable strategies to create consistent networking opportunities, deliver value-packed content, and foster connections that your members won’t want to miss.

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The SEO impact of interstitials, before and after

Search Engine Land

Recently, an SEO client of mine lost 82% of desktop organic traffic to their homepage in one month. Then, there was another 97% decline in desktop organic traffic in the second month. Why? The client launched a mobile and desktop pop-up for all United States visitors. Against my advice, the client hoped the conversions would outweigh the decline in organic traffic.

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Bluecore moves into experimentation

Martech

Bluecore, the retail and D2C omnichannel personalization platform, is adding experimentation to its suite of products. Bluecore’s new Experimentation Hub will enable the testing of campaigns against specific audiences like new buyers or re-activated buyers. One main aim of this solution is to improve engagement and revenue within brands’ existing customer base against a background of rising customer acquisition costs.

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Zeta Global unveils connected mobile experience and AI agents

Martech

Zeta Global launched a new AI-powered intelligent mobile solution, as well as an expanded roster of AI agents, at last week’s Zeta Live event in New York. These aim to make it easier for marketers to act on customer insights using data from all touchpoints, including mobile. “Mobile is largely a disconnected channel for all organizations, and that’s problematic because you wind up with a channel-centric strategy,” Christian Monberg, Zeta Global’s CTO, told MarTech.

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Google Ads Customer Match: How to Use First-Party Data for Smarter Retargeting

Customers.ai

As long as I can remember, advertisers have been hesitant to send their first-party data to Google Ads audiences. Why? The onus of privacy. Advertisers, and specifically agencies, didn’t want to be the ones responsible for leaking any personal customer info. And let’s be real – Google made it quite clear they wouldn’t be taking responsibility.

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11 Best Trello Alternatives Reviewed in 2024

Zumvu

Trello has been the go-to tool for project managers, teams, and individuals looking to organically organize tasks in a visually appealing yet intuitive manner.

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SEO grew up, a lot of SEOs didn’t

Search Engine Land

When we were young, we all wanted to sit at the adult’s table. But we couldn’t, often, because of our behavior. Growing up, we often thought we were cool, but we weren’t. Look back at your past. There are probably photos or things you did that you find questionable today. This is exactly how we SEOs should be looking at our work. SEO has grown up a lot; we SEOs didn’t.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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Buffer’s recent performance and what our team has been doing about it

Buffer Marketing

If you use Buffer, you might have experienced us having more downtime than usual recently. We want to start with an apology for not sharing more transparently along the way what’s been happening. We’ve been caught up in the work and haven’t invested enough in communicating with our community, and we’re so sorry about this misstep.

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Decoding Googlebot crawl stats data in Google Search Console

Search Engine Land

Tucked away in the Settings section of Google Search Console is a report few SEO professionals discuss, but I like to monitor. These reports are known as Crawl Stats. Here, you’ll find an interesting set of metrics on Googlebot crawl activity. These metrics are especially useful for websites with thousands or millions of pages. Googlebot ‘Crawl stats’ Long ago, Google Search Console had easy-to-find metrics on Googlebot crawl activity.

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