tl;dr Marketing January 20th - 2021 Issue

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January 20th - 2021

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Today’s digital marketing roundup includes news that TikTok Gets a Q&A Feature, Looks Like GMB Posts are No Longer Restricted to 7 Days and more.

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Looks Like GMB Posts are No Longer Restricted to 7 Days

Looks like Gogole might be removing the 7-day restriction for Gogole Post in the Location panel. If you look at the business linked below you will see that Goole is surfacing posts from August last [...]

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TikTok Gets a Q&A Feature

Creators can add Q&A button to profile allowing followers to leave questions which they can answer via video replies or in a live stream.

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Googlers Talk About Google Search in APAC, Language Complexities in Indexing and More

In this episode of Search Off the Record, John, Martin, Gary, and special guest Cherry Prommawin discuss Google Search in the Asia-Pacific region as well as the complexities of index selection for language types and [...]

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Pinterest Rolls Out Dynamic Creative Ad Specialty

Advertisers can now generate multiple versions of new Pins using uploaded assets or a product feed. The new ad specialty was created with the goal of enabling brands to design performance-driven Pins, with audience-specific messaging, [...]

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Forbes Launches a Paid Newsletters Platform

Forbes is launching a newsletter platform that will allow journalists to launch their own paid newsletters and split the revenue with Forbes. Forbes will hire 20-30 writers with big followings to help get the platform [...]

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Facebook Upgrades Their AI Powered Photo Captions Game

In 2016 Facebook introduced a new technology called automatic alternative text (AAT) now they are rolling out several improvements to the program. So instead of describing the contents of a photo as “May be an [...]

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Pinterest Tests a Section at the Top for Pin Stories

Looks like Pinterest is running a test to highlight story pins by featuring them at the top like other social media platforms with stories.

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Google Tests Featured Snippet with Multiple Inline Links That Opens Modal Window with More Info

Looks like Google is bringing back the test that pissed off a lot of people BUT this time around they are linking out to the source rather than to self-hosted web stories pages. Sample Query: [...]

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Case Study on Increasing Organic Traffic by 230% in 2 Months Using Smart Faceted Navigation

Looks at how concentrating on longer tail queries using smart logic for faceted navigation helped Andy Chadwick grow organic traffic by 230% in 2 months.

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Less Intrusive Permission Requests, Tab Search Comes and More comes to Chrome 88

Google released Chrome 88 to the stable channel on January 19, 2021. The new browser version includes some cool changes, including an improved dark theme for Windows 10 and the beginning of less intrusive permission [...]

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Google Crawl Stats Report Now Showing More Crawls

Google has posted an update on its new crawl stats report saying “the crawl stats report has increased its reporting coverage for additional types of crawls.” This means you may see an increase in the number of [...]

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