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Google’s New Personal “Business Cards” For Search

Personal Branding Gets A Major Upgrade With New "People Cards"   Facebook's long-term admiration and steady cloning of Snapchat, and now TikTok, is well documented. How good is Instagram Reels… But Facebook's not the only player in town which draws inspiration from its Silicon Valley neighbours, as Google's new LinkedIn-esque features demonstrate. Google's new "People Cards"

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New Predictive Audiences in Google Analytics

Google Analytics will leverage its machine learning to suggest new and improved audiences for your App + Web marketing campaigns. A pair of new metrics—on the likelihood of purchase and the likelihood of churn—could do wonders for both campaign targeting and analysis. If your web property generates the quantity of purchase activity needed to power

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Google Tweaks Smart Campaigns

Google’s Smart Campaigns—an AI-assisted ad offering—has recently announced an expanded feature set, focusing on targeting, reporting and more. Keyword Themes ‘Keyword themes’ is Google’s new name for the part of Smart Campaign set-up that used to be labelled ‘products and services’. In practice, this is the step to identify what the advertiser is offering. Google

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Google Maps & Search Get Messaging Upgrade

Google Business Messages Can Power Sales Or Customer Service  Google has announced a significant upgrade for Business Messaging across Google surfaces. Google rolled out messaging via Google My Business in 2017, giving searchers the ability to message and interact with organisations directly from search engine results. The feature was then further extended to Google Maps

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Website UX Becomes Google SEO Ranking Factor

Google Introducing New "Page Experience" Algorithm Ranking in 2021  User experience (UX) has been a major tenant of web design for aeons. However, following Google's latest announcement, UX will now also directly begin impacting search engine rankings as of 2021. Google's latest UX search ranking update is known as Page Experience. Sowmya Subramanian‎, Director of

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Google My Business’ New COVID-19 Features

Google Expands Scope Of GMB, With New Booking & Ecommerce Features Google has released a series of updates to help organisations better communicate timely service disruptions and changes via Google Search and Maps. The new features have launched via Google My Business and further cement its status as a must-use communications tool. Unsurprisingly, since the

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Google Goes After Social With New Discovery Campaigns

Discovery Ads Are Finally Live Across YouTube, Gmail & Google Discover Google advertisers might have noticed a welcome surprise in their ad accounts in recent weeks. No, not the COVID-19 busting $1,000 ad credit Google has been touting, but a new, much-awaited campaign type, Discovery ads. Announced at Google Marketing Live in 2019, Discovery ads

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