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Google Ads’ New Cryptocurrency Policies Take Effect
Google Ads’ new cryptocurrency policies have officially taken effect. Here’s what crypto advertisers need to do to continue advertising!
Google Changes Page Experience Ranking Signal Criteria
Google is removing safe browsing from the criteria sites need to meet to benefit from the page experience ranking factor.
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Twitter Adds More Context to Trending Topics
Twitter is improving the way it keeps users informed about trending topics via a collaboration with The Associated Press and Reuters.
Google: Website Downtime Shouldn’t Impact Search Rankings
Google’s John Mueller says a website going down temporarily likely won’t have a negative impact on search rankings.
Microsoft Ads August Updates: New Bidding Strategy, New Automated Extensions, & More
Microsoft has announced their August product updates. Here’s what you need to know!
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Google Explains Importance of GMB for Local Search
John Mueller offers insights into ranking for local search queries in Google
WPX WordPress Hosting Outage
WPX hosting outage caused anguish as WordPress websites were taken offline for hours
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Twitter Comes Bottom While Google Maintains Lead in Yearly Customer Experience Report
The ACSI has released their annual report ranking e-businesses across social media, search engines and information, and news and opinion sites.
Google’s New Technology Helps Create Powerful Ranking-Algorithms
Update of Keras-based TF-Ranking coincides with recent pace of Google updates. Allows rapid development of more powerful ranking and spam algorithms
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Twitter Tests New Shop Module
Following Professional Profiles, Twitter announces the launch of the Shop Module as part of its wider approach to improving the shopping experience on the platform.
Google: Suggestions for Ranking Product Pages
Google’s John Mueller offers suggestions on how to improve search visibility for product pages
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Google Changes Eligibility for Fact Check Rich Results
Eligibility for Fact Check rich results for pages using the ClaimReview structured data has changed. Non-compliant pages will lose rich results
TikTok Launches 8 New Features For Livestreams
TikTok is rolling out eight new features for livestreams which includes Q&A, picture-in-picture, the ability to schedule streams in advance, and more.
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Pinterest Users Can Make Money With Affiliate Links
Pinterest is rolling out new ways for users to earn money on the site, including the ability to earn commission through affiliate links.
What Google Does With Feedback From Search Results
Google goes over what it does with feedback sent in via the ‘send feedback’ button at the bottom of search results.
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Are Hyphens in Domain Names OK for Google?
Are keywords in the domain name overrated? Google’s John Mueller discusses keywords in domain names in the context of SEO.
Google Link Spam Algorithm Update Rolling Out on July 26
Google begins rolling out the “link spam update,” which makes its algorithms more effective at identifying and nullifying link spam.
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Why Google May Remove a Site’s FAQ Rich Results
Google’s John Mueller explains the reasons why Google may remove FAQ rich results displayed by a site
Austria Joins The Google News Showcase
On 21st July 2021, national, local, and regional news organizations in Austria joined over 800 news publications by signing up to the Google News Showcase.
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Akamai Outage Pulls Major Sites Offline Globally
Akamai software update triggers bug in DNS taking world’s biggest and most popular sites offline. Akamai pledges to review update process
Google Expands ‘About This Result’ With Info On Ranking Factors
Google is expanding the ‘About This Result’ panel with information about what factors went into ranking a page in search results.
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Google’s 5 Best Practices For Optimizing Deal Pages
After making deal pages free for all ecommerce stores, Google offers six best practices to follow to optimize the pages for search results.
Google: Keep Redirects Live For One Year
Google’s Gary Illyes advises keeping redirects in place for at least one year in order to ensure ranking signals are passed permanently.
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Twitter Tests Voting On Tweets
Twitter carries out an experiment that gives users the option to ‘down vote’ or up vote’ a reply within a Twitter conversation.
LinkedIn Offers Free Marketing Certification Program
LinkedIn is now offering a free marketing certification program that anyone can take to become an accredited LinkedIn marketing expert.
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Google’s New 3-Strike Policy – The Checks & Balances
Learn what counts as a strike, how to get strikes removed, how strikes accumulate over time and the associated penalties.
Google Launches Free Deals Listings in Search Results
Google is rolling out a new way for ecommerce stores to list deals in search results, which is currently free for all merchants.
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WordPress 5.8 Released With Nearly 300 New Features & Fixes
A major version upgrade of WordPress was released, version 5.8, containing nearly 300 improvements and new features
Google: No SEO Advantage to Dedicated Hosting
Google’s John Mueller affirms that dedicated web hosting does not have an SEO advantage over shared hosting.
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Google’s 7 Tips For Analyzing a Google Search Traffic Drop
Google gives site owners seven tips for analyzing the main causes of drops in organic search traffic.
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