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Earlier this week, Microsoft and Google both announced they're introducing different types of AI into search and related products with staged press events. Both of today's guests have spent a lot of time thinking about and working with machine learning and AI in their digital marketing careers. Duane Forrester thinks about emerging technologies from the point of view of a leading business tool maker while Ryan Jones is a vice president of one of the oldest digital marketing agencies in the world.Duane and Ryan join Jim Hedger and Kristine Schachinger for an hour-long wide ranging conversation about Google and Microsoft's AI announcements and the implications for the web and for the digital marketing communities.Duane Forrester is the Vice President of Industry Insights at Yext, the leading business-fact management tool where he leads industry outreach, evangelism, and company authorship. In his career, Duane ran the WebmasterTools program at Microsoft and Bing. Before that, he ran the SEO program at MSN. After leaving the concrete comforts of Microsoft, Duane ran operations for Bruce Clay's company. He moved to Yext about five, maybe six years ago. In between all that, Duane authored two books, “How To Make Money With Your Blog” and “Turn Clicks Into Customers”, both published by McGraw-Hill. He also taught himself how to make custom electric guitars in his garage when he isn't tenting it up somewhere miles away from civilization in his ample free time. – Duane Forrester, welcome back to WebcologyA web-dev turned SEO, Ryan Jones is Sr.Vice President, SEO at Razorfish, one of the oldest web marketing agencies on the web. Based in Detroit, Ryan has been an SEO since before Google became a publicly traded company (does today's Alphabet price give you a sense of nostalgia?) You've read Ryan's work as he's a regular contributor to most if not all industry publications. Publisher of WTFSEO, Ryan still makes his own websites and tools. He was one of the main crew that dissected Yandex a few weeks back. When he's not putting some keyboard to good use, Ryan hunts and plays hockey, softball, and golf. If you get the chance, look for him at an industry conference somewhere near you. Ryan Jones, welcome to Webcology.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/webcology/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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On today's episode of the Internet Marketing Podcast, Andy is joined by Duane Forrester, VP of Industry Insights at Yext and author of Turn Clicks Into Customers & How To Make Money With Your Blog to talk about digital knowledge management and voice search. On the show you'll learn: What Digital Knowledge Management is and why it's important How you can grow your own career as a digital knowledge manager (DKM)Why you need a broad range of skills to work in digital marketing these daysHow you can make yourself a huge asset to any businessDuane's thoughts on voice search in 2019Plus, Duane provides his top tip/key takeaway. If you'd like to connect with Duane, you can find him on Twitter here and on LinkedIn here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
On today's show, Seth speaks with Duane Forrester, VP of Industry Insights for Yext. Duane talks about management of data layering to get your company's information into search engines like Google and Bing, as well as the importance of access to data discovery. Duane also discusses the next wave in brand experience marketing: voice search engines like Alexa and Siri. Duane Forrester accumulated over 20 years' experience in the search and social fields prior to becoming the VP of Industry Insights for Yext. He is the author of How To Make Money With Your Blog and Turn Clicks Into Customers, through McGraw-Hill. Along the way, Duane has worked in marketing & PR with Caesar's Palace, run his own websites, communities and consultancy, worked for small and enterprise publishers online. Past work included almost 9 years with Microsoft and Bing where he helped run their Webmaster Tools program, as well as the SEO program at MSN. In between the bookends of Yext and Bing, Duane ran operations for Bruce Clay, Inc., one of the oldest names in digital marketing. For several years, Duane's focus included writing for SearchEngineLand.com, moderating in the original SearchEngineForums.com and being a Board member with SEMPO, where he founded the InHouse Committee and SEMPO's annual Industry Salary Survey. For more on Yext, visit: https://www.yext.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On today’s show, Seth speaks with Duane Forrester, VP of Industry Insights for Yext. Duane talks about management of data layering to get your company’s information into search engines like Google and Bing, as well as the importance of access to data discovery. Duane also discusses the next wave in brand experience marketing: voice search engines like Alexa and Siri. Duane Forrester accumulated over 20 years’ experience in the search and social fields prior to becoming the VP of Industry Insights for Yext. He is the author of How To Make Money With Your Blog and Turn Clicks Into Customers, through McGraw-Hill. Along the way, Duane has worked in marketing & PR with Caesar’s Palace, run his own websites, communities and consultancy, worked for small and enterprise publishers online. Past work included almost 9 years with Microsoft and Bing where he helped run their Webmaster Tools program, as well as the SEO program at MSN. In between the bookends of Yext and Bing, Duane ran operations for Bruce Clay, Inc., one of the oldest names in digital marketing. For several years, Duane’s focus included writing for SearchEngineLand.com, moderating in the original SearchEngineForums.com and being a Board member with SEMPO, where he founded the InHouse Committee and SEMPO’s annual Industry Salary Survey. For more on Yext, visit: https://www.yext.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“There are no paved roads where we’re going.” Prior to becoming the vice president of Industry Insights for Yext, Duane Forrester accumulated over 20 years’ experience in the search and social fields. He is the author of How To Make Money With Your Blog and Turn Clicks Into Customers. Duane has worked in marketing and PR with Caesar’s Palace, run his own websites, communities, and consultancy, and worked for small and enterprise publishers online. Past work includes almost nine years with Microsoft and Bing where he helped run their Webmaster Tools program, as well as the SEO program at MSN. In between the bookends of Yext and Bing, Duane ran operations for Bruce Clay, Inc., one of the oldest names in digital marketing. For several years, Duane’s focus included writing for SearchEngineLand.com, moderating in the original SearchEngineForums.com, and being a board member with SEMPO, where he founded the InHouse Committee and SEMPO’s annual Industry Salary Survey. Listen And Learn: His strategies for optimizing voice search and discovery. How to make your brand the best answer in search. His definition of what he calls “the truest sense of selling.” How to position your brand all along the various points of the customer journey. How to become “the featured snippet” on Google search. His bold predictions about the paradigm shifts he sees on the MarTech horizon. TO LEARN MORE ABOUT YEXT, CLICK HERE. TO FIND DUANE FORRESTER ON LINKEDIN, CLICK HERE.
Duane Forrester, VP of Industry Insights for Yext and author of How To Make Money With Your Blog and Turn Clicks Into Customers, shares insights on Digital Knowledge Management from over 20 years’ experience in the search and social media. Find out what you can do to protect your brand online, and increase brand visibility and trust by improving your searchability via text and voice search technology.
Duane Forrester is the Vice President of Industry Insights for Yext, leading industry outreach, evangelism and authorship for the company. He's here to talk to us about voice search, structured data, artificial intelligence, position zero, integrating your app (or website) into Alexa, and so much more. Duane is is the author of two books: How To Make Money With Your Blog & Turn Clicks Into Customers. He's written for publications ranging from SearchEngineLand and DuctTape Marketing, to Entrepreneur Magazine, the New York Times and Inc. He actively advises startups and large corporations, and even spent time advising the staff who maintain the White House's websites. Resources Yext: Control Your Brand Across the Digital Universe (official site) Duane Forrester (blog) Duane Forrester on LinkedIn Duane Forrester on Twitter Turn Clicks Into Customers: Proven Marketing Techniques for Converting Online Traffic into Revenue (book) How to Make Money with Your Blog: The Ultimate Reference Guide for Building, Optimizing, and Monetizing Your Blog (book)