Bias in AI: Image API Associates Black Doctors with “Street Fashion”

There’s a bias issue we found in Google’s search results – skip here to get right to it. This was an important discovery / reminder that we shouldn’t blindly use the outputs of AI analyses.

While we can get so much further than we have before in terms of insights, we still need to ensure we’re gut checking our results and not blindly following the data.

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Scaling Marketing Innovation to Empower Clients

The post was written by: Yuzuka Akasakabased on this Wil Reynolds talk.


Marketers Build the Bridge Between Customer & Company 

Marketing leaders have some pretty tall order questions to tackle in order to be successful, like:

  • What’s the right budget to maximize conversions?

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Why We Built Our Own Keyword Rank Tracking Tool

This post was written by: Christina Blake & Ethan Lyon.

Why Build a Custom Rank Tracking Tool?

There are a lot of great tools in the market for keyword rank tracking – but at Seer we found that we had many use cases with organic rank data that wasn’t being addressed by those tools.

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Why Is It Important to Display Data in a Visual Way?

Data visualization can make it easier to communicate and interpret data that is difficult to understand — as it helps humans comprehend meaning, reveal patterns, identify outliers, and draw actionable conclusions — making it a critical tool in business.

In this article, learn about data visualization, how it can help your business, and what makes a data visualization “good”.…

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The search dilemma: looking beyond Google’s third-party cookie death

The ad tech and search industry are precarious that Google will use this as a new way to establish market dominance that feeds its own interests. Google expert, Susan Dolan details on the current realities and future trends

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How to Use Search Data to Solve Business & Marketing Problems

Search data is some of the most detailed consumer trends and behavioral data you’ll find anywhere, but that depth can make it difficult to know where to start.

Get the most out of your data by asking the right questions and aligning metrics to strategic objectives.

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Google Ads Removes Search Terms for 28% of Paid Search Budgets

Written by: Alex TurbettGrant Edrington, & Chris Konowal


This post contains the one day of data we had from this surprise Google Ads change at the time of writing. We will continue to monitor the impact and send updates on what we’re seeing to keep you informed.…

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We Analyzed 331K Display Placements and Found 165K to Negate

With the economic downturn brought on by business shutdowns and social distancing efforts — marketing budgets are one of the first places companies are cutting in order to stay afloat.

There are plenty of opportunities to make your marketing budgets more efficient by cutting out areas of hidden wasted spend.…

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How to Use SEO Data to Inform PPC Keyword Expansions

PPC specialists are tasked with keyword research and expansion frequently. We use Google Keyword Planner, search query data, landing page content, and various other tools to guide strategy. However, at Seer, we like to think about search holistically – as one results page, regardless of which channel the results come from.…

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Google BigQuery FAQs Answered

Frequently Asked Questions

What is BigQuery?

BigQuery was introduced by Google as a scalable solution to data warehousing to give enterprises more flexibility with their data. BigQuery is a serverless cloud data warehouse that allows users to query and join various datasets in a user-friendly interface at a low cost.…

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Why Google Smart Display Campaigns Are Not So Smart

Google released Smart Display campaigns in 2017 to help lighten the workload for digital advertisers and exercise the power of machine learning on the Google Display Network (GDN). Despite investing millions of dollars into machine learning initiatives, Google’s smart display targeting is plagued by the same downfall as standard (dumb?) display campaigns: poor quality placements (placements are locations on the display network where your ad can appear).…

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Bot Farms, Fraudulent Websites, and Display Advertising

The most profitable campaigns in digital marketing are not managed by advertisers, whether in-house, freelancer, or global agencies. Rather, the most profitable campaigns in digital marketing are managed by black hat hackers committing ad fraud.

In 2015, the Security Firm White Ops exposed Methbot, a suspected Russian criminal syndicate making an estimated $3-$5 million a day from display advertising fraud.

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Combine 30 Excel Files in 1 Minute with Power BI

Have you ever tried to combine 30 files in Excel & it crashed? Same.

Yes, we have all been there. You open a big Excel file that you know will take at least five minutes to load. You are on the edge of your seat saying, “Don’t you dare do it”… and then bam, Excel shuts down and all of your work was not able to be recovered.

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SearchLove London 2018: 10+ New Ways to Visualize Your Search Data

Were you at SearchLove London 2017 & 2018?

Wil Reynolds talked about How Power BI Can Help You Bust Silos back in 2017. He showed how Power BI is changing every part of his job. You may even remember him talking about Bubbles and boxes.…

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