Facebook drops ‘News’ from News Feed in rebrand
The News Feed is no more. Facebook says the News Feed will now simply be known as the Feed.
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Smart Pages, Microsoft’s free site builder, is now available to US-based SMBs
The company also announced feature updates, including video embeds and integration with Bing Maps.
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Conductor acquires technical SEO monitoring tool ContentKing
ContentKing customers can continue to use the tool. Conductor plans to fully integrate ContentKing into its platform within 12 months.
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Google’s Privacy Sandbox, including the Topics API, is coming to Android
Google is soliciting feedback for its initial design proposals and is expecting to launch in beta by the end of the year.
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Microsoft Advertising Expands, Now In 29 New Countries
Microsoft announced the expansion of Microsoft Advertising in 29 new countries. This expansion goes across Europe and Africa, with reach to 19 new languages. Microsoft estimates this brings the reach of the ad network to 41 million consumers, making 40…
Google Ads Disapproving & Suspending Accounts In Masses?
I am seeing tons of reports over the past 24 hours of complaints around mass disapproving of ads and suspensions of accounts within Google Ads. Some are specific to being disapproved around “government documents and circumventing systems.”
Google: How You Implement Analytics Does Not Affect SEO
Google’s John Mueller said that your SEO is not impacted by the way you implement your analytics software. That is assuming you don’t implement it in a way that blocks crawling and indexing, he added.
Google Ads Needs At Least 15 Conversion In 30 Days For Machine Learning To Work Better
Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, confirmed some time ago that for the Google Ads machine learning models to work faster (and probably better) Google would need a minimum of 15 conversions in the last 30 days. She added that the more conversions h…
New Google AdSense Related Search For Content Pages
Google has announced a new AdSense ad unit named related search for content pages. The feature embeds ads that displays search terms related to the content of the pages your users are reading.
Snapchat introduces attributable mid-roll ads for Snap Stories
Being able to tie conversions from these ads to a particular creator can help advertisers understand their ROI.
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Google denies mass search ad disapprovals or bugs with ad policy enforcement
There are widespread reports of Google Ads disapproving ads and accounts in the past 24-hours but Google says nothing is out of the ordinary.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 14, 2022
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Google Search Console crawl stats report is missing some data…
Google AdSense launches related search for content pages
The new feature is designed to drive incremental ad revenue while encouraging more engagement from visitors.
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Google Search Console Crawl Stats Report Missing A Day
It looks like there is a missing day, a data gap, in the Google Search Console crawl stats report. I am personally missing Tuesday, February 8th crawl data but it seems others are missing February 9th.
Google Ads Reporting Delay Bug Causes Advertiser Confusion
On Friday, February 11th, Google confirmed an issue with the Google Ads reports where there was a delay in reporting a portion of conversions using Data Driven Attribution (DDA). Google has fixed the issue and has or is currently working on backfilling…
Google Ads To Create & Show More Ad Extensions In Search
Google announced that it has is releasing more features to potentially show more ad extensions including sitelinks, callouts, and structured snippets. This includes a way to review and manage automatically created extensions and Google’s machine learn…
Google Ads Large Sitelinks Block Design
Google seems to be testing really large sitelinks for some Google search ads in the mobile search results. We’ve seen larger sitelinks several months ago, but here it is in virtually the same size as the top part of the ad.
Google: More Content Does Not Mean More Traffic
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter “more content definitely does not mean more traffic.” Meaning, writing more content does not always translate to more traffic, espesially from Google Search.
Vlog #159: Brian Wallace On Good vs. Bad Infographics & The Process To Make Infographics
In part one we spoke about how Brian Wallace of NowSourcing got into infographics, how it is not just about links but much more and some cool scores he had with them. In part two…
Microsoft Advertising nearly doubles available markets with 29 more countries
This update may make Microsoft Advertising more attractive to advertisers that sell products or services internationally.
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