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Pinterest’s New Feature & Tools, Plus Digital Marketing News [PODCAST]
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The Marketing O’Clock team takes a look at Pinterest’s new advertising tools, discusses Google Ads’ recent API release, and more!
Google Maps Lets Users Add Photos Updates Without Leaving a Review
Google Maps is introducing three new ways for users to add helpful content for others, including the ability to share photos without leaving a review.
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Advertisers Are Failing at Diversity & Inclusion on YouTube – Here’s What You Can Do About It
A study on diversity and inclusion in media shines light on negative stereotypes reinforced through media. Here’s how advertisers can do better.
Google May Have to Negotiate Payment for US News Publishers
Google, Facebook, and other big tech companies may have to negotiate deals with US news publishers to pay them for content if new bill passes.
Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings Begin to Roll Out for YouTube CTV
YouTube and Nielsen roll out new ad measurements as YouTube CTV viewership continues to increase. Here’s what you need to know.
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OVH Data Center Fire Darkens Popular Sites Worldwide
Fire at an OVH Data Center in Europe takes down millions of sites, including WP Rocket and Imagify
WordPress 5.7 Launches With One-Click HTTP to HTTPS Conversion
WordPress 5.7 “Esperanza” is now available, which allows site owners to convert from HTTP to HTTPS with a single click.
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Google May See Web Pages As Duplicates if URLs Too Similar
Google uses a predictive method to detect duplicate content based on URL patterns, which could lead to pages being incorrectly identified as duplicates.
Google: No Plans to Speed Up Data Collection For Core Web Vitals
Google’s Core Web Vitals testing tools take 28 days to gather aggregate field data, and that likely won’t change any time soon.
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The Plus Addons for Elementor Critical Vulnerability
Zero Day total site takeover exploit discovered in popular WordPress plugin for Elementor page builder
Google Announces Free Hotel Booking Links
Google announced that travel booking links, previously provided through Google Hotel Ads, will be free. Provides a source of free traffic.
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Google Search Results Updated With ‘Full Coverage’ For News
Google Search is gaining the Full Coverage feature for breaking news results which provides more context about stories from multiple sources.
Google on Choosing the Best Anchor Text
Google’s Mueller describes how to choose the best anchor text for links
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Google’s Mueller on Keys to a Successful Site Migration
Two tips on how to ensure a successful site migration according to Google’s John Mueller
Brave Browser to Launch Its Own Search Engine
Brave, makers of an open-source web browser, are launching a privacy-focused alternative search engine that will offer options for ad-supported and ad-free search results.
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Google Ads App Gets New Features After 3 Months of No Updates
The Google Ads mobile app is getting updated with two new features to help advertisers monitor and improve campaign performance on the fly.
A Social Platform Built For Good?
Will this new social media platform help users in a way that no other platform does? Should the likes of LinkedIn and Twitter be worried?
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Twitter Announces Super Follows and Communities & This Week’s Digital Marketing News [PODCAST]
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The Marketing O’Clock team discusses Twitter’s upcoming features, Instagram’s Live Rooms, and more!
WordPress Gutenberg 10.1 Boosts Core Web Vitals
Update to the Gutenberg editor improves WordPress Core Web Vitals
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Google Sites Sitemap Documentation Removed
Official developer pages updated to reflect that Google Sites no longer creates sitemaps
TikTok Q&A Launches in Video Comment Sections
TikTok is introducing a new way for creators to engage their followers with the launch of ‘Q&A’ in comments sections.
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Microsoft Bing Rolls Out 5 Upgrades to Search Results
Microsoft Bing is launching five updates to search that aim to evolve SERPs beyond a list of links to provide users with a richer experience.
Instagram Lets Up to 4 People Go Live in One Stream
Instagram’s new ‘Live Rooms’ lets up to four users go live in the same stream, doubling the amount of participants that were allowed previously.
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WordPress Considers Dropping Support for IE 11
WordPress announced it’s seeking feedback on dropping Internet Explorer 11 support to gain considerable improvements to performance and development
Americans Trust Google More Than Facebook, TikTok
Survey reveals American’s most and least trusted digital platforms. It also unveils some alarming insights into how users think Google operates.
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Updates to Google PageSpeed Insights Scores
Google announced that in general, Page Speed scores will all rise as of March 3rd, 2021.
Google Will Not Track Users After Replacing Third-Party Cookies
Google assures users it will not replace third-party cookies with with an alternative solution that tracks users’ web activity.
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Google On How to Use Search Console’s Crawl Stats Report
Google Search Console’s new crawl stats report is thoroughly explained by Search Advocate Daniel Waisberg in a new training video.
Semrush to Publicly Sell Shares on New York Stock Exchange
Semrush is announcing an initial public offering of company stock, which will see the SEO software company selling shares on the New York Stock Exchange.
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A Complex Art: Marketing to the Different Funnel Stages [Podcast]
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In this month’s episode of Marketing O’Talk, Greg Finn sits down with some of marketing’s finest minds to discuss funnels.
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