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YouTube Continues Testing Immersive Product Experiences
Live Stream display ads, 3D Swirl ads, and Beauty Try On all aim to keep bringing the outside world in to users at home.
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Google’s Rich Results Test Out of Beta & This Week’s Digital Marketing News [PODCAST]
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This week on Marketing O’Clock, Google’s Rich Results Test is out of beta, the Structured Data Testing Tool is being phased out, and more.
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Major Bug in Grow by Mediavine WordPress Plugin
A major bug in Grow by Mediavine caused recipe bloggers to lose rich results features. Some sites lost rankings.
LinkedIn Adds Name Pronunciation Audio Clips to User Profiles
LinkedIn profiles can now include audio recordings of users saying their own names to assist others with proper pronunciation.
Why WP Rocket is Responsible for Some of Google SERPs Glitch
Google dropped images from recipe blog rich snippets again. Some say WP Rocket might have something to do with it.
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Google Creates a New Way to Drive Traffic Via Image Search
Google is adding more context to photos in image search results, which presents site owners with a new opportunity to drive traffic.
TikTok Self-Serve Ads Available Globally & $100 Million in Ad Credits
Advertisers can now freely place ads on TikTok, the fastest-growing social app in history.
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Google Web.dev Introduces 1-Line Layouts
Google introduced 1-line layouts, screaming fast bare-bones web page layouts. They use astonishingly little code and don’t need media queries.
Instagram Tests Replacing Activity Tab With Shopping Tab
Instagram is replacing the Activity tab with a ‘Shop’ tab for select users as part of a global test.
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Instagram Lets Users Pin Comments to the Top of Posts
Instagram is letting users pin up to three comments on posts as part of a larger effort to combat bullying on the platform.
Google Shutters Structured Data Testing Tool
Google is officially moving the Rich Results Test out of beta now that it fully supports all Google Search rich results features.
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WordPress Bans Commercial Blog Links From Official Documentation
WordPress bans links to commercial sites from official documentation. But allows links to Stack Overflow. Some say that’s unfair.
LinkedIn to Prevent Users From Spamming Page Follow Invites
LinkedIn is making its platform less noisy by cracking down on the number of invites page admins can send out each month.
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Google: Spam Reports Do Not Result in Manual Actions
Most spam reports submitted via Google search results do not lead to manual actions. Google uses the reports to improve it’s spam detection capabilities.
CCPA Roll-Out Causes Havoc for Facebook Advertisers
Buyers experience plummeting results as Facebook automatically removes California user data for targeting.
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Google Testing Thumbnail Images in Search Results
Google testing thumbnail images in the organic search results. This is why some sites don’t get them and what you should do.
Google Might Have to Give Algorithm Access to India
A draft proposal of anti-monopoly measures seeks access to Google’s “source code” and algorithms to ensure against anti-competitive bias.
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Facebook Algorithm to Favor Original Reporting & This Week’s Digital Marketing News [PODCAST]
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This week on Marketing O’Clock, the team covers Facebook’s newsworthy algorithm change, free Google Shopping listings in the main search results, and more.
What GoogleBot is Doing to Shopping Carts… and Why
GoogleBot can add products to shopping carts. But it’s only happening to these specific merchants.
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Google Finds SEOs Are Getting More Work During COVID-19
Google’s Gary Illyes polled SEOs about changes to their work life during COVID-19, and the results were not what he expected.
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