Good morning Search Marketer, thank you.
Thanks to the thousands who joined us for SMX Next this week! If you didn't get a chance to register, all of the sessions are still available on demand. You'll be able rewatch George Nguyen's keynote on Content marketing in times of disruption and Greg Sterling's look at the evolution of Google My Business and local search from yesterday as well as all the other presentations.
On the news front, Google is shuttering CallJoy, its virtual agent for SMBs, next month. But it announced yesterday that Web Vitals metrics and related recommendations are now baked into the Test My Site Tool. A new Deloitte study underscores just why businesses should invest in mobile site speed improvements: Just 0.1 second improvement can boost AOV by nearly 10%, it found.
Google is also testing product feeds in App campaigns and expanding deep linking to more ad formats. You can read more about those announcements here.
Lots more below,
Ginny Marvin,
Editor-in-Chief