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Featured snippets. You know them, even if you don’t know them by name. They’re ubiquitous in Google searches — although not all (more on what queries bring them up in a moment) — and can give those featured a huge boost. By understanding the mechanisms behind featured snippets and optimizing for them, you can significantly increase not just your visibility, but all the downstream effects of that — including click-through rates and more that are the foundation for greater staying power and sales. Understanding featured snippets First off: What they […]
Google’s Performance Max campaigns are becoming an increasingly present part of the online marketing ecosystem as more businesses use them to work alongside their traditional search campaigns. When you’re working with Performance Max, you’ll be segmenting ads into different asset groups. These are essentially the component parts of what can make up your ads — headlines, images, URLs, audiences, videos (in certain cases), other copy, and so on — which are thematically related and can be arranged in different ways and formats depending on the platform on which they’re being […]
The Black Friday and Cyber Monday season — collectively abbreviated as BFCM in marketing circles — is, for many businesses, the most crucial time of the year as far as their bottom line is concerned. About 200 million Americans reported shopping during this time last year, spending on average over $300 on holiday items alone — that means we’re looking at, conservatively, well over $6 billion spent. In other words: This time is a big deal for retailers and ecommerce alike. If that’s you, that means the time to plan […]
During an election year, advertising spending cumulatively goes through the roof due to the massive increase in political advertising. We often tend to associate this with more traditional advertising methods — like television, for example — as well as in-person campaign events. In the contemporary digital age, however, this means a lot of advertising that’s, well, exactly that. You surely notice the uptick in digital political ads every two and four years yourself, whether on YouTube, social media, or elsewhere. In 2024, Axios projects political spending to be up over 30% […]
MozCon wrapped up its 2024 edition earlier this summer, which included some thoughts on the evolution of SEO and AI. Before you think, “Oh, I bet the takeaways are to hop on that bandwagon,” you might want to slow down that reflex. A lot of the findings were in line with what many of us have intuitively experienced as individuals — when it comes to making content that provides value instead of clogging up the search engine ecosystem, AI and low-quality output (even when human-powered) aren’t particularly beneficial and can […]
When it comes to advertising on social media, TikTok offers an extensive array of ways to divvy up your target audiences and show the most relevant users what you can offer them. With this variety of targeting options, the foundation is TikTok’s multiple audience-creation types: Here’s a look at each. We’ll start with custom: Custom audiences Image Source: netscale.com Custom audiences on TikTok are exactly what they sound like and operate pretty much the same as custom audiences elsewhere. You can create a custom audience in TikTok based on: Furthermore, […]
Formerly Facebook Ads, Meta Ads are an unavoidable part of the digital marketing landscape now, whether you’re on the receiving end as an individual user or on the marketer side. Because of that, as a marketer, it’s easy to waste a bunch of money and do little other than annoy disinterested users if you don’t approach it right. So, to avoid that, we’ve taken a look at the importance of regularly adapting your ads and campaigns and a checklist for the elements to optimize. The Importance of Checking on Your […]
When it comes to your online marketing, simply having a presence is a big part of it. Having an engaging presence is better. Having a consistent and engaging presence is best. By creating content that helps your potential audience with your area of expertise and creates more pathways for people to find you, both you and your audience can benefit — provided that it is truly useful to them and not an absolute drivel that more and more brands are pushing out. In doing so, you’ll likely end up with […]
As you’ve probably noticed, digital marketing is emphasizing automation over manual inputs more than ever. Similar to how Google is leveraging Performance Max, Meta now has a similar offering, Advantage+ designed to further automate marketing efforts. But what is Advantage+? Is it really the same thing as Google’s Pmax? The answer: yes, kinda! It started as an option specifically for shopping campaigns but now is available across the architecture of a campaign, from ad sets to ads themselves. Per Meta, this ostensibly should improve your campaigns. Yet there are now […]
When it comes to Google advertising, the Google Search Partners Network is probably one of the more under-discussed tools it offers. Businesses and brands often wonder — with good reason — if the pros are worth it for the potential cons. After all, there is a certain level of ambiguity to it, and there’s far less control over ad placement on Google Search Partners than on Google proper. This uncertainty is exacerbated by the fact that Google doesn’t give a full list of sites or apps within this network, meaning […]
