Is Google drawing up the traffic drawbridge? With the steady demise of organic results within social channels over the years and budgets coming under strain in many quarters post-COVID, organisations are increasingly pivoting towards Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). However, while SEO typically runs rings around social channels for driving organic traffic, and conversions, the latest […]

Desktop Upgrade Follows 2020 Launch On Maps & Search In 2021, messaging app usage is expected to surge past 2.9 bn people worldwide. With messaging essentially becoming the new social media, it comes as no surprise that messaging also begins to play a more significant part in Search. Google began offering forms of messaging within

1st July Sees Gmail Ads Absorbed Into Discovery Campaigns  Gmail Ads are a-changin, and the manner of their change has the potential to frustrate brands and marketers who enjoyed using them as a standalone ad type. Gmail Ad targeting will from 1st July only be available as a placement within the recently launched (ish) Discovery

Short Form Video Comes To Search 2020 was a massive year for short-form video, with juggernaut TikTok proving, without doubt, the love that users have for irreverent snippets. One can only imagine the founders of Vine, must feel like Will Smith, after turning down The Matrix, to shoot Wild Wild West. 2021 looks set to

New Community Feed Offers Free Reach For 2021 Over the past 24 months, Google has been quietly but steadily building out the feature set of Google Maps. With its kick-ass mapping service evolving from a handy free route-finder to an effective marketing and communications channel for organisations large and small. Following the release of its

Google Puts Marketers On Notice  Back in May, Google announced that page experience would be included in Google Search ranking. Now we’ve got a roll-out date. May 2021 will be the date everyone has to prepare for as page experience signals in rankings will come into effect. Brands and marketers should be focused on making

Google Launches Podcast Manager Google has announced a feature that should interest podcasters, publishers and content producers. It’s called Google Podcast Manager. The Google Podcast Manager dashboard now allows creators to see how well their podcasts are performing in Google Search. Back in August 2019 Google announced that podcasts could be played directly from desktop

Free Web UX Tool Offers Visual Heatmaps, Session Playbacks & More Microsoft has announced the launch of a free-to-use behavioural analytics tool called Microsoft Clarity. Clarity, as the name suggests, is designed to help users go down the rabbit hole and see precisely what users are doing on their site, which can lead to more

GA4 Upgrades Machine Learning, Integrations & Privacy Google Analytics has just released its most significant update in aeons. This update, termed Google Analytics 4, essentially replaces the App + Web property that was released in beta last year and will affect the majority of websites using GA. Users will now see richer integrations with the