tl;dr Marketing January 28th - 2021 Issue

Digital Marketing News Roundup

January 28th - 2021

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Today’s digital marketing roundup includes news that Hamlet Batista Has Passed Away, Google Tests Featured Snippet With a Title in the SERPs and more.

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Google Merchant Center Adds Ability to Submit Disputes Directly from Settlement Report

Until now, to dispute items in your settlement report, you’ve been required to submit a request form via the Help Center, which may require ongoing communication between you and Google. Now, you’ll be able to [...]

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Google’s Using AI to Plan Electric Car Trips

Google announced today a new feature for electric vehicle owners that uses artificial intelligence to sort through thousands of public charging stations while finding the best route. The new feature will only work for electric [...]

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Track Core Web Vitals In GA4 With Google Tag Manager

In this article, Simo Ahava will show you how to use a new custom template to set up the Core Web Vitals tracking without having to use Custom HTML tags and also how to use [...]

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Open Call for Feedback on CLS Measurement

Learn about Google’s plans for improving the Cumulative Layout Shift metric and give them you feedback. Please email feedback to our web-vitals-feedback Google group, with “[Layout Shift Metrics]” in the subject line.

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Hamlet Batista Has Passed Away

I came to know this via Twitter today. I only know Hamlet Batista through Twitter he seems to an exceptional person who was always willing to share his knowledge with the rest of the community. [...]

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Google Tests Listing Online Stores in the SERP for Some Queries

This might not be new but I don’t think I have come across these before where Google suggests a list of Online Stores that stocks a particular product you are looking for.

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Google Tests Featured Snippet With a Title in the SERPs

This looks new, a Featured Snippet with a title. Works on mobile and desktops. Sample Query: Try searching for Sample Query on Mobile or Desktop. I was able to trigger the result from Australia.

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Refine by Filters Now Appear on Desktop SERPs

These used to appear on mobile from Sep last year but it looks like they are now also on desktops SERPs as well. Sample Query: Try searching for Sample Query on Desktop. I was NOT able [...]

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Structured Data Change History Timeline by Sitebulb

A great resource that allows you to keep tabs on the latest changes to Google’s structured data and rich results. You can also signup to get notified via email.

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Google Is Now Showing Sports Player Stats, Quotes in an Answer Box

Ouch from all the sports sites out there this will definitely chew up a big chunk of traffic from them. Gogole is now showing sports player stats in the SERP as an answer box search [...]

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Hootsuite Global State of Digital 2021 Report Is Out

You will need to provide an email and some other details to get the report. You can expect to see insights about social, search, mobile, and more

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Google to Stop Collecting Advertising Identifiers in iOS Apps in Response to iOS 14's Upcoming Tracking Prompt

Apple will soon require iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV app developers to request permission from users to collect their random advertising identifier (known as the “Identifier for Advertisers” or “IDFA”), which advertisers use to deliver [...]

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GSC Is Sending Verify Domain Emails to Webmasters with a Few Characters Missing in the Domain

Google has confirmed they are sending out messages recommending domain properties in Search Console were some of the emails had a few characters missing in the beginning of the domain name. This only affects the [...]

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Google Ads Tests Site Label In Search Ads

Google Ads is testing placing a label named “Site” between the Ad label and the URL of the search ad in the mobile results. I can’t reproduce this but I imagine site might be added [...]

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Firefox 85 Cracks down on Supercookies to Prevent Cross-Site Tracking

The latest version of the Mozilla browser is cracking down on supercookies that evade regular anti-tracking techniques. To achieve that, Firefox now partitions network connections and caches by each individual website visited. In the past, [...]

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