Google is extending the Black-owned attribute to Google’s Shopping tab, so people can easily identify and buy from Black-owned businesses on Google. Business owners can add the Black-owned attribute by visiting the Google Merchant Help Center. [...]

Facebook is testing a notification that notifies Apple iOS users about ways the tech giant uses their data to target personalized ads to them. The test is happening in light of upcoming changes to Apple’s [...]

Instagram might soon have a Vertical Stories format where you can swipe up and down to browse stories. NOTE: The feature was likely discovered by reverse-engineering the app to find hidden features and security vulnerabilities, [...]

Late last week, Instagram began sending out this notification to selected users which stops some users from sharing feed posts within their Stories. The only way that you’re going to see a person’s IG story in [...]

Some new features are coming to the WordPress Web Stories Plugin. Monetization via Ad Manager and AdSense – You can now enable these monetization integrations for your stories in the plugin’s settings without any coding [...]

Google is launching Startup School — a series of free, hands-on virtual courses for startup founders and their teams across Asia Pacific. The interactive sessions will cover a range of topics, from digital marketing and product knowledge [...]

All three Core Web Vitals benchmarks must be met in order to qualify for the ranking signal boost rolling out this May, says Google’s John Mueller. This topic came up right at the start of [...]

Tim shares a free Google Sheets template to help you do SEO forecasting. Get the template here and read the post for more info on using it.

Microsoft Bing is now testing displaying the estimated reading time for some of the search results. Within some search result snippets, Bing is adding “estimated reading time” under the snippet.

They announced this in Jan last year and due to COVID it was delayed for a while but now it’s official.

Discover traffic from Chrome Browser (on Android or iOS) wasn’t included in the existing Discover performance report but that is about to change. Discover performance report in Search console will be providing a single place [...]

The test from October 2020 is going live today in the US. You will begin to see a menu icon that you can tap to learn more about the result or feature and where the [...]

Google starts testing refinement bubbles within the entity modal they have recently started testing.

Instagram is making it easier to bring back deleted posts. The company is rolling out a “recently deleted” feature in the app that’ll allow you to review content you’ve deleted, including photos, videos, reels, IGTV [...]

Back in Nov 2020 they were testing it with limited users and it appears now everyone can start using it.

The In this Video SERP feature which was predominantly on mobile is now starting to appear on desktops as well. They are primarily triggered by Youtube timestamps but at times Gogole might surface them without [...]

The next major release of WordPress will make it much easier for users to migrate their sites from HTTP to HTTPS. It introduces new capabilities to detect if the user’s hosting environment has support for HTTPS [...]

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will step down as CEO and transition to a new position at the company as executive chair of the Amazon board in Q3 2021. Andy Jassy, who currently serves as CEO [..]