Good morning search marketers, let's hear it for the Internet Archive.
Who doesn't love the Wayback Machine? Now it's getting even cooler with a beta feature called "Changes" that highlights the depth of content changes made to a page in a calendar view. You can then click on two days to compare what the page looked like on those dates side-by-side. It's definitely still in beta, so you might hit some snags with it, but it was working well for me yesterday afternoon. The calendar view's color scales indicate the amount of change that occurred between the archived snapshots, making it much easier to figure out when significant changes were made to a page — very handy for SEOs.
Coinciding with International Small Business Day, Google launched a site Thursday designed to help small businesses figure out where to start with its suite of free and paid products. After a series of prompt questions, Google's suggestions might include setting up a GMB listing or downloading the GMB app, starting an ad campaign or trialing the G Suite — and every time I tried it, the suggestions included YouTube. This is the latest in a series of efforts Google has launched to make its products easier to navigate for small businesses stretched for resources. Recent GMB updates, as well as Local Services ads and Smart Campaigns, built on the AdWords Express technology, are other examples.
If you or your client are looking to expand into new markets and are looking at organic search to fuel international growth, you might pick up a tip or two from Wolfgang Digital's campaign strategy and tactics for the Digital Marketing Institute. The Search Engine Land Award SEO agency of the year spearheaded a mixed of localization efforts to help the DMI expand beyond the UK. The team used a host of tools, including SEOmonitor, Screaming Frog, Sitebulb, SEMRush and BuzzSumo to manage and inform the campaign. In seven months, the SEO effort drove a 75% increase in organic traffic globally and found a new top market in the U.S.
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Ginny Marvin
Editor-In-Chief