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Digital marketing talent—especially those specializing in SEO, content, email marketing, and PPC—remains in top demand.  If you’re looking to advance your career, change jobs, or expand your digital marketing team, Conductor’s 2023 Digital Marketing Salary Guide has you covered. Visit Digital Marketing Depot to download Conductor’s 2023 Digital Marketing Salary Guide & Hiring Trends Report for access

If you’ve used ChatGPT for any period of time for tasks like creating content for SEO, you’ve likely noticed a few things: It’s great and a major time-saver for some tasks. It’s much worse than what you already do for other tasks. To get the most out of it, you must understand how it works,

Google’s Search Ads Week kicked off with two new tools to help advertisers deliver faster creatives and better performance. Create new assets with Google’s AI  New customer acquisition goals A couple of Search Week product updates: Automatically created assets are now available to all advertisers in English as an open beta & the new customer

Google expands mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal In 2015, Google announced it would expand its use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal, beginning April 21. This algorithmic change would have a “significant impact” in the mobile search results, impacting all languages worldwide, Google said. However, when April came, the general consensus was that Mobilegeddon was

SEOs upset over Google dropping attribution in featured snippets In 2019, SEOs were not happy about a Google featured snippet format that didn’t immediately show the source of the content. For the Found on the web card, searchers had to click to expand the featured snippet and then scroll through various sources to see the

For weeks, marketers have been hearing about ChatGPT and its applications for content and SEO.  Prompt engineer is even now a job: Wow – Anthropic (Google’s latest $300M AI investment) is hiring a “Prompt Engineer” for $250k-$335k/yr + equity No CS degree required, just have “at least basic programming and QA skills” Wild times. pic.twitter.com/4i1sEWs5iZ

TikTok has just released a “Top Products” element to its Creative Center. This data provides insights into the popularity of particular products on the app, as indicated by the frequency of ads featuring the item, as well as metrics such as impressions, view-through rate, comments, and likes. Essentially, all the relevant data points are available

Social media as we’ve known it seems to be in its dying days – with one notable exception, Tiktok. That’s according to a new social media engagement rate benchmark report. TLDR. There are five important takeaways for brands from the 2023 Social Media Benchmark Report, which was released today by Rival IQ: Organic engagement: falling or

Looking ahead to 2023 and beyond, businesses worldwide face lots of uncertainty. One thing will remain constant throughout this period — customers expect excellent experiences when interacting with a brand. According to Acquia’s latest CX Report, businesses plan to prioritize customer retention over the next 12 months: 56% plan to improve customer experience, and 58%

Bing chat sessions are now capped at 50 questions per day and 5 per session, Microsoft announced. There have been many bad examples shared of the new Bing AI chat sessions featuring everything from gaslighting to accidental racism. Microsoft has said it didn’t anticipate extended chatting, which “can confuse the underlying chat model.” What’s changing.

Google removes ads from right side of search results In 2016, Google removed ads from the right side of its desktop search results (with two exceptions: Product Listing Ad boxes and Knowledge panel ads) in all languages, worldwide. Google Ads would only appear at the top and/or bottom of the page. An additional ad (so,

Yahoo stops using Google search In 2004, Yahoo stopped using Google’s web search results and rolled out its own new index and ranking system. Although Yahoo had purchased Inktomi in December 2002, Yahoo opted to build its own web search engine. Yahoo still relied on Google for image search and and News search was a

Google is warning against using 404 and other 4xx client server status errors, such as 403s, for the purpose of trying to set a crawl rate limit for Googlebot. “Please don’t do that,” Gary Illyes from the Google Search Relations team wrote. Why the notice. There has been a recent increase in the number of

Susan Wojcicki, one of the longest-serving Googlers is stepping down as the CEO of YouTube after nine years in that role and 25 years at Google. In her personal update blog post she said, “after nearly 25 years here, I’ve decided to step back from my role as the head of YouTube and start a

Google made $224 billion from ad revenue in 2022, which has helped hide four major cultural problems within the company, according to former Google engineer Praveen Seshadri. Why we care. Although Seshadri was not a member of the search team, he offers some interesting insights from within Google that may help us understand why Google

Meta’s “year of efficiency” is kicking off with killing the livestream shopping business on Instagram. Effective March 16, 2023, users will no longer be able to tag products while live streaming. The move reflects the challenges of making livestream shopping successful in the US market, in contrast to its popularity and profitability in Asian markets.

Men’s Journal is the latest publication to be called out for using AI to generate content that contained several “serious” errors. What happened. 18 specific errors were identified in the first AI-generated article published on Men’s Journal. It was titled “What All Men Should Know About Low Testosterone.” As Futurism reported: Like most AI-generated content,

Google penalizes JCPenney for link scheme In 2011, JCPenney was caught engaging in link schemes and, as a result, found itself on the receiving end of a Google penalty. The New York Times was apparently perplexed by how well jcpenney.com ranked in organic search for practically everything the retailer sold. So they asked someone familiar