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SMX Report is next week… grab your All Access pass now!

Join us next Tuesday, February 23, to learn how to turn raw data into actionable insights that drive traffic, leads, and sales. Join hundreds of search marketers next week to learn how to transform your data into actionable insights that drive more traffic, leads, an...
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Bing Ads Reduces Campaign Reporting Lag To 1 Hour

Impression and click performance data is now delivered much faster. Bing Ads has been focused on improving platform performance over the year and today announced another improvement. Click and impression reporting data is now available up to the previous hour. Previously there...
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Google My Business adds messaging to desktop interface

Businesses can now message with customers through their web browser, not just the mobile app. Google is rolling out the messaging functionality within the Google My Business desktop interface. This is not fully live yet, but many can see it already. Previously, messaging was...
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Oracle’s TikTok Purchase On Hold Indefinitely

Oracle’s bid to purchase TikTok, in conjunction with Walmart, is on hold indefinitely as a result of the change in administration. The Trump administration aggressively went after a number of Chinese companies, including Huawei, ZTE, Xiaomi and TikTok, accusing them of being a...
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Old content still showing up in Google search results? Google might not find that content important

Google explains how crawl rate can be used as confirmation that a page is OK to remove from your website, and thus their index. Have you ever been in a position where you have removed pages from your website and it has taken Google a really long time to remove that content from...
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Methbot, fake news and five other reasons SEM/SEO interest will surge

Columnist Kevin Lee is predicting that 2017 will be another great year for paid search, due in part to events both within and outside of the industry. Based on what I’ve seen across my diverse set of clients, and talking to others in the industry, I’m predicting 2017 will be...
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Video: Amazon’s New Electric Vans Quietly Delivering

Amazon has just launched their first electric Rivian delivery vans on the road in Los Angeles. Customers will begin seeing the custom electric delivery vehicles in up to 15 additional cities in 2021. The company plans to have a 10,000 electric delivery fleet operating on the road...
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Marketers say COVID vaccines create hope for quick return of in-person events

But whether organizers can safely get conferences up and running in 2021 is another question altogether. “We can’t wait to come back,” says Michael Bartholow about attending in-person conferences. “It’s really one of the best parts of a lot of our jobs.” But asked when he will...
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Bing Tests New “Favorites” Feature That Lets Users Bookmark Images

Still in beta, the new feature is available only for users signed in to their accounts on a desktop. Bing is testing a new “favorites” feature that lets users bookmark images when signed into their Bing accounts on a desktop. According to the announcement, as long as images are...
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Google Search Console Discover performance report now includes all data

Also be on the look out for the new origin referrer for Chrome Google Discover traffic. Google announced that the Discover performance report within Google Search Console will now include all data, including Chrome data. As you may know, users can access stories from Google...