Good morning search marketers, happy Friday!
Don't ask 20-year search veteran Wil Reynolds, who heads up digital agency Seer Interactive, what he thinks about, say, page speed. "There's nuance with all these things," Wil says, "You should always pull your own data." Wil told Barry Schwartz he had an epiphany about looking at data two and a half years ago after realizing how little data he was looking at as an SEO after getting experience in paid search. He now works with large data sets to inform his work. Watch the full video interview with Wil and Barry.
The beleaguered coworking biz WeWork paid roughly $126 million for SEO platform Conductor in 2018. A source familiar with the process tells us WeWork has been in talks to sell Conductor "for a while" and that a deal could come soon that represents "a very positive outcome" for the business, its customers and employees. Conductor has reportedly been growing over the past year, and a sale could put the firm in a better position to keep growing.
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Ginny Marvin
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