Good morning search marketers, more audience solutions are now available.
Microsoft Advertising continues to build out its audience targeting capabilities. Yesterday, the company moved product audiences (retargeting for Shopping campaigns) and similar audiences (lookalike matching for expanded prospecting reach) to open beta. If you're already running Shopping campaigns in Microsoft Advertising, the product audiences could be a good complement to add ahead of the holiday shopping season to recapture people who've viewed specific products on your site. The matching for similar audiences, as well as for in-market audiences, is powered by AI and the Microsoft Graph, which includes LinkedIn profile dimensions.
The impact of Google's algorithmic updates to the display of review stars in rich search results, announced earlier this week, is starting to register. Multiple monitoring tools are reporting anywhere from a 3 to 5 point drop in the number of times review rich results show. If you notice your review rich results are no longer showing, review the rules Google laid out this week for potential answers.
And speaking of tracking tools, Barry Schwartz sat down with Pete Meyers, aka Dr. Pete, the creator of Mozcast which tracks changes in Google search results. The two discussed their shared passion (OK, obsession) for tracking search changes and what makes this work important. Watch the full 10-minute chat.
Read on for a Pro Tip on why you should be obsessing over intent and lots more.
Ginny Marvin
Editor-In-Chief