Five most important search marketing news stories of the week

This week, both LinkedIn and Facebook are beefing up their paid social offerings in different ways, while Google seeks to cut off Adwords revenues for fake news sites. And might Google be favouring desktop over its own AMP in its upcoming mobile-first index?

Everything You Need to Know About Facebook Canvas Ads

Back in October 2015, Facebook announced it was testing a shiny new ad unit called Canvas ads. Those tests must have gone well, because Facebook Canvas ads are now being rolled out to the ad accounts of all of us mere mortals! In this post, I’ll share my tips for getting the best out of […]

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Is Paid Social Media The New Paid SEO?

Brands have a new way to pay for external or offsite SEO, a path to influence rankings. It follows the search engines’ terms of service and can lead to the type of links Google says are among the most valuable. Google spokespersons even endorse the principle behind this new paid form of SEO……

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