How voice assistants like Alexa can help marketers reach elderly Americans

Digital marketers need to help seniors understand that there’s more to benefit than to fear with using and voice assistants like Alexa.

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Alexa.com adds more search tools to its competitive analysis

Now, the free tool “automatically generates top competing sites that it uses as the basis for a more in-depth competitive analysis report,” Alexa.com President Andrew Ramm told SEW.

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How to check for duplicate content to improve your site’s SEO

What is considered duplicate content? What steps can you take to make sure it doesn’t hamper your SEO efforts? Pressing SEO questions answered.

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CES 2018: Google ramps up Assistant with smart displays, native podcasts, recipes and news

Amazon Echo and its voice assistant, Alexa, might be the current market leaders in voice-activated smart technology, but the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show has shown that Google fully intends to challenge Amazon for that crown.

Optimizing for voice assistants: Why actions speak louder than words

The voice assistants of today are closer than ever to the sci-fi ideal of the all-knowing computer that we’ve been dreaming about for decades. But the way that users are interacting with them isn’t just with voice search – it’s with voice commands. How are these different, and what can you do to optimize for them?

How to capitalize on Voice Search and the death of the keyboard

As of 2014 we know 55% of teens and 41% of adults use voice search on a daily basis. Now with virtual assistants like Siri, Alexa and voice recognition technology from Shazam and SoundHound, the number of users adopting voice search is only increasing, and the technology for understanding humans is advancing as well.