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ChatGPT: Data Mining and SEO With OpenAI and Bing
Table of Contents What Is ChatGPT and How Can You Use It for Data Mining and SEO? Now, What About Bing GPT? Some Other SEO ChatGPT Use Cases Natural Language Processing With Structured Responses Chatbots As Personal Assistants Frequently Asked Questions About ChatGPT for SEO and Data Mining Conclusion: For …
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No. Don’t “Upgrade” to Google Analytics 4 (GA4). Instead, install it and run it in Parallel.
Don’t “Upgrade” To Google Analytics 4 (GA4) Just Yet Google has been urging Analytics users – mostly by email – to “Upgrade” to Google Analytics 4 (GA4). At Search Influence, we are installing GA4 but not “upgrading” just yet. No doubt, GA4 will be a great improvement, but there are …
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How to Use Google Shopping to Increase Retail Sales
It’s more important for retailers, now more than ever, to capitalize on the internet as an additional revenue source for their businesses. The vast majority of internet users in the U.S. are expected to shop online this year, with Statista estimating that 80% of all internet users in the country …
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How to Balance In-house Marketing With an Agency
How Can an Agency Help Me If I Am a… Single Person Marketing Team Single person marketing “teams” can feel isolated and underappreciated. The business owner(s) expect you to handle it on your own, but as you’ve tried to run campaigns, manage vendors, write content, plan the strategy, update your …
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Year-end Trends: What’s Been Driving Local Search in 2018?
Annually, the brightest minds in the local search field come together to provide their input on the major changes and trends in the industry via the Local Search Ranking Factors Survey. Coordinated by Darren Shaw from Whitespark and the fine folks at Moz, the 2018 review of local ranking factors …
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Trust Your Marketing to a Team, Not a Machine
You’ve probably heard something like this before: “Automated marketing is bad for business!” But, actually, I’m not sure I 100% agree with that—I know, you’re surprised, right? A marketer telling you that machines and automation are a good thing? Well, hear me out. Artificial intelligence is growing at a rapid …
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Non-Secure Site? Prepare Your Website for the Google Chrome 70 Rollout
Since last year, we have been explaining what HTTPS means and the important updates announced by Google. Let’s do a brief refresher course. What Is the Difference Between HTTP and HTTPS? HTTP and HTTPS protocols both fulfill the same core function to transfer data over the internet. HTTPS stands for …
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How to Drive Conversions With the Right Contact Form—And What to Avoid
Your business’ shiny new website just launched and everyone assumed a deluge of fresh new leads would follow. To everyone’s dismay, the predicted deluge turns out to be nothing more than just a trickle. What gives exactly? “Build it and they will come” may ring true with your traffic itself …
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Why You Should be Posting on Google My Business
“Just Yahoo it,” said no one ever. It just doesn’t have the same ring as “Google it,” which was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary and the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary in 2006. That’s because Google has practically monopolized internet searching. According to NetMarketShare, Google accounted for over 79 percent …
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Your Referral-Based Business Still Needs Digital Marketing
Most referral based businesses are pretty happy watching the dollars come in without having to invest in marketing. The business model usually looks a little something like this: company does good work → client is happy → client tells a friend they are happy with great work by company → …
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