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TechTarget cites technical SEO issues as reason for 25% decline in Google traffic

TechTarget, a business-to-business marketing company, said it saw a 25% drop in Google organic traffic in November. Though the company said that organic Google traffic trends do not directly correlate to company revenue, the drop was significant enough that TechTarget noted it in its fourth-quarter 2019 earnings report [PDF], released Wednesday. November traffic change. “Unpaid […]

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There’s been a nearly 70% decline in always-on location data, since iOS 13 rollout

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Perhaps more than GDPR or CCPA, Apple’s iOS 13 privacy controls and location alerts may impact the availability of user location data — just as it’s becoming a critical tool for marketers. According to research from location verification company Location Sciences, since the adoption of iOS 13 the company has seen “a 68% decrease in

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[Thread] As post-IPO prices of some unicorns decline, "guaranteed" returns for late stage private investors, unable to sell shares for months, prove illusory (Gavin Baker/@gavinsbaker)

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Gavin Baker / @gavinsbaker: [Thread] As post-IPO prices of some unicorns decline, “guaranteed” returns for late stage private investors, unable to sell shares for months, prove illusory — 1) Investor fear and the absence – temporary or permanent – of the Vision Fund likely creates more attractive late stage opportunities vs. the last 5 years.

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Explaining The Decline In Expedia’s Q3 Profits — Trefis

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Expedia‘s (NASDAQ: EXPE) adjusted profits fell 7% year-over-year due to the following reasons: incremental weakness in SEO volumes, due to headwinds from Google’s search engine practices in favor of its own Google Flights and Google Hotels a related shift to high-cost marketing channels as Google shifted more volume toward its own products softer than expected

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Small businesses grapple with the decline of Google’s organic search

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Google’s steadily improving search algorithm over the years has led to the rise of two things: more clicks going to Google-related properties and more web searches resulting in no clicks at all. Charles Platiau/Reuters Avery Swartz is the author of See You on the Internet: Building Your Small Business with Digital Marketing (coming March, 2020).

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Games Blamed For Moral Decline And Addiction Throughout History

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from the moral-panics-through-the-ages dept Video games are often blamed for unemployment, violence in society and addiction – including by partisan politicians raising moral concerns. Blaming video games for social or moral decline might feel like something new. But fears about the effects of recreational games on society as a whole are centuries old. History shows

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With pharma sales rep contact on the decline, physicians turn to the internet – Econsultancy

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According to Decision Resources Group (DRG)’s 2019 ePharma Physician Report, physicians are seeing fewer pharma sales reps than ever before and increasingly relying on their own use of the internet to answer questions about prescription drugs and biologics. Just over half (54%) of physicians the research firm polled said that they have met with pharma

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Netflix turns decline upside down with help from Stranger Things

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After a scary quarter that showed Netflix could be facing serious challenges ahead, hit series such as Stranger Things helped bolster its numbers. In July, shares in Netflix tumbled after its earnings report for Q2 showed overall subscriber growth was almost half of its expected figure, with the streaming service losing a total of 126,000

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Uber, Lyft decline to appear before Congress

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Both Uber and Lyft decided not to send representatives, however, according to company and Transportation Committee officials. That prompted Transportation Committee Chairman Peter A. DeFazio (D-Ore.) to say that the panel will press ahead with legislation that could encompass safety and labor for transportation network companies, or ride-hailing companies, with or without their cooperation, according

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Can ByteDance’s new search engine succeed despite the decline of search in China? – Econsultancy

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Earlier this month, Chinese technology company ByteDance, the owner of the hugely popular short video app TikTok (known as Douyin in China), made headlines with the launch of a search engine to rival Baidu. The search engine, called Toutiao Search, primarily draws its results from ByteDance’s own apps such as Douyin and Jinri Toutiao, one

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