Cost-per-click (CPC) rates are rising across industries. In fact, CPCs are up by an average of 10% year over year, according to WordStream. It’s time to address this challenge. Lisa Salvatore, Sr. Manager, Lead Acquisition at CallTrackingMetrics, puts it this way: “You can give the digital advertising landscape credit for one thing: keeping us on … Read more
Google has served “billions of queries” with its generative AI features and plans to “expand the type of queries we can serve our users” even further. That’s according Alphabet/Google CEO Sundar Pichai, speaking during the Q1 2024 Alphabet earnings call. AI overviews, which Google introduced in the U.S. in late March and the UK earlier … Read more
Most B2B marketers, regardless of brand or agency experience, have likely faced this scenario: a marketer in charge of budget insists on investing in PPC campaigns despite evident issues that will hinder their effectiveness. We’ve worked with some of those clients before, attempting to address issues while managing paid media simultaneously – similar to building … Read more
A steady decline in organic click-through rate has posed a real challenge for SEOs over the last few years. With organic ranking becoming increasingly competitive, the best way SEOs can continue to excel is to shift their focus to SERP features and rich results, according to Tanner Zoromski, SEO manager at Merkle, a customer experience … Read more
Google Business Profile and other types of Google-related phone scams are on the rise in 2023, according to data shared with Search Engine Land by voice security service Hiya. Why we care. If anyone calls you about your listing – telling you it “needs to be verified,” “has been flagged for review,” or “may be … Read more
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