#How to manage SEO campaigns during economic downturns

#How to manage SEO campaigns during economic downturns

Keep your marketing strong in tough economic times with insights on consumer behavior, market analysis and long-term positioning. Economic downturns create uncertainty and changes in user behavior that impact markets and forecasts. They also affect the approach and resources allocated to marketing activities. Because no two recessions or economic downsturns are the same, marketers operate…

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#Microsoft confirms Reddit blocked Bing Search

#Microsoft confirms Reddit blocked Bing Search

Reddit updated its robots.txt file prohibiting Bing and some other search engines from crawling its site. Reddit has updated its robots.txt file, preventing Bing and many other search engines from crawling the site. “Bing stopped crawling Reddit after they implemented their updated robots.txt file on July 1, which prohibits all crawling of their site,” a…

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#Bing testing new generative search experience

#Bing testing new generative search experience

Microsoft said this “combines the power of LLMs and SLMs with Bing’s search results to generate a more delightful and efficient UX layout.” Bing is now testing its new generative search experience that combines the Bing search results and its language models to use AI to generate a different breed of search results, including an…

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#2024 organic website traffic benchmarks

#2024 organic website traffic benchmarks

Join us on July 30th to ensure your organic search and content strategies are set up for success for the remainder of 2024 and beyond. Comparing your website’s organic search performance to the latest industry benchmarks is the best way to contextualize YTD organic search traffic data, adapt SEO and content strategies to maximize results,…

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#Could AI eventually make SEO obsolete?

#Could AI eventually make SEO obsolete?

As long as users need to search for information, search optimization will remain essential. Here’s why. The short answer is, “no.” Perhaps a more relevant question is: Could AI render human SEO analysis and actions redundant? In other words, will AI eventually replace your job? Early analysis suggests that AI still falls short, particularly in technical…

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#Survey: User satisfaction with Google grows in 2024

#Survey: User satisfaction with Google grows in 2024

Google’s push into AI-driven search doesn’t seem to have hurt customer satisfaction. Meanwhile, ads are problematic for social media users. Americans are more satisfied with Google Search than a year ago, according to the annual American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Search and Social Media Study 2024. Why we care. Many search marketers and news publishers…

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