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Jan 30, 2020

Good morning search marketers, are you ready to let go?

Advertisers, prepare your final farewell to accelerated delivery. The standard delivery march continues. Starting in April, new Display, Video, App and Hotel campaigns will only have the standard ad delivery option, Google said yesterday. Existing campaigns will be switched over automatically in May. As it did when it shut off accelerated delivery for Search and Shopping campaigns last fall, Google noted that this is an "improved" standard delivery that uses machine learning to determine when to serve your ads based on your goals and the query's contextual signals.

Meanwhile, Google's featured snippets shakeup continues. The company will keep showing both the featured snippet in the right rail of desktop search and that URL's listing in the main organic results — for the time being. The eventual plan is to do away with the right rail featured snippets and move them into main results. At that point, Google will resume removing the additional organic listing and only include the URL in the featured snippet. So, enjoy the extra exposure while it lasts.

If you were an early SMX attendee, you may remember seeing the incredible Lisa Barone furiously typing away in the front row, somehow eloquently live-blogging session after session. It was a sight to behold. Lisa is now Chief Marketing Officer at Overit, helping guide digital strategies for the agency's clients. She and Barry Schwartz had a lot of laughs talking about the early days of SEO and discussed Lisa's impressive career trajectory in his latest video interview, which you can watch in full here.

Keep reading for thoughts on Amazon from P&G marketing exec Benjamin Spiegel, who will be joining me on stage, along with Dana Tan of Under Armour, at SMX West next month for a wide-ranging discussion on the future of digital commerce marketing. I can't wait.

Ginny Marvin,
Editor-in-Chief

Pro Tip

Who's winning on Amazon right now?

"As a merchant on Amazon, you can have different roles," explains Anders Hjorth of Innovell. "One is as a vendor working with Amazon in a retail partnership. Or, as a third-party seller on the marketplace. There is also a hybrid model to be a seller but benefit from Amazon's fulfillment solution."

When Anders asked some digital commerce experts if brand-holding companies were actually prepared for this new world, SMX West speaker Benjamin Spiegel of Procter & Gamble shared his thoughts:

"Amazon, brick-and-clicks and last-milers have emerged as the leaders in today's digital commerce environment. This has drastically disrupted the rules of retail and opened up the field for a whole new set of competitors. No longer do you own the shelf based on your scale. Instead, you win based on their unique algorithms. Buzzwords like Glance Views, Search Rankings and Buy-Box Percentage are the new metrics that decide who wins on the digital shelf."

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Search Shorts

Google Ads UK political content policy change.

Google Ads UK political content. Google Ads ads will be implementing a policy change on January 31, 2020. The change will update the Political content policy for the United Kingdom. Here's the list of changes.

Mixed languages in URLs. Google's John Mueller said mixed languages in your URLs is fine for SEO, but can potentially confuse users.

Unused links. Just because links aren't used doesn't mean you have to disavow them. Lots of links on the web aren't used, that's normal, John Mueller said on Twitter.

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