Another personal obsession:Marketing Day: In-house SEO, featured snippets & Facebook targets spammers

Here's our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web.

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Another personal obsession:The value of an in-house SEO

Does your business really need an in-house search professional? Columnist Eugene Feygin explains what an in-house SEO can bring to the table, and why it's worth the investment for many organizations.

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Another personal obsession:Featured snippets: Optimization tips & how to ID candidate snippets

Contributor Brian Ussery breaks down featured snippets, explaining his observations and offering tips for pursuing the coveted "position zero."

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Another personal obsession:2017: The year in social marketing so far

From Snap’s IPO to Facebook’s ad breaks to Instagram’s Stories, here are 2017’s biggest stories in social so far.

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Another personal obsession:Facebook targets individual spammers with latest news feed tweak

Facebook has identified a small group of spammers and will penalize links that those accounts share more than the average Facebook user.

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Another personal obsession:No longer brick-and-mortar vs. online retail: Customers view a ‘single lens’

Despite the ease of online shopping, consumers still crave the tactile experience of physical stores. Columnist Allan Haims explains how retailers can unify their channel strategies and take a best-of-both-worlds approach.

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Another personal obsession:How Life is Good built a content-first app with an 89% retention rate

Columnist Blaise Lucey takes a look at how lifestyle brand Life is Good developed an app that focuses on content, not just sales -- and why it keeps users coming back for more.

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Another personal obsession:Snaps launches a Marketing Cloud for chatbots, messaging and emojis

New York City-based company is offering a self-service platform so marketers can target users with automated conversations.

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Another personal obsession:LISTEN: Danny Sullivan reflects on 21 years covering the search industry

In this week's podcast, our outgoing co-founder Danny Sullivan talks about the beginnings of his career documenting the search marketing industry, how SEO has evolved and why he's stepping away now.

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Another personal obsession:Voice search and SEO: Why B2B marketers need to pay attention now

Voice search is being adopted for a variety of purposes, and columnist Nate Dame makes the case that its influence on B2B decision-makers is growing as well. B2B marketers, be prepared!

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Another personal obsession:Surviving and thriving at an SEO conference

Hitting the search conference circuit this year? Columnist Dave Davies has tips and advice for making the most of the experience.

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Another personal obsession:Calling all B2B sellers and marketers: Business as usual is holding you back

Are you clinging to outdated marketing approaches and technologies? Columnist Sonjoy Ganguly says it's time to shake things up and unlock ABM's potential.

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Another personal obsession:Force-feed your marketing funnel now

Contributor John Steinert explains how SiriusDecisions' Demand Unit Waterfall serves as a wake-up call for marketers who are looking to find real, active demand in their markets and rapidly funnel it to sales.

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Another personal obsession:Marketing Day: Google’s VR ad concept, new Facebook metrics & Amazon’s Prime Day

Here's our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web.

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Another personal obsession:As Amazon continues its rampant growth, will traditional retailers survive online?

In Q1 2017, Amazon owned a 40.9% share of online sales dollars, while the No. 2 online retailer, Best Buy, didn't even get 3%.

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Another personal obsession:TAG launches tool to help keep ads off apps that pirate content

Trade group members will be able to integrate the tool into their own systems to keep violating apps out of the ad supply chain.

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from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips http://marketingland.com/tag-launches-tool-help-keep-ads-off-apps-pirate-content-218582
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Another personal obsession:IAB Tech Lab issues final ads.txt specs to authenticate verified digital ad sellers

The initiative aims to give publishers and buyers a simple way to identify authorized sellers and help eliminate inventory fraud.

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