tl;dr Marketing February 09th - 2021 Issue

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February 09th - 2021

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Today’s digital marketing roundup includes news that Bing Gets Their Shop Pages Ranked in Google for Lucrative Keywords like Gucci Belts, Twitter Considers Subscription Fee for Tweetdeck, Unique Content and more.

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Google Added a Bunch of Manual Actions Types In Search Console for News & Discover

It looks like Google added a whole set of new manual actions to the list of manual actions. The new ones are for Google News and Google Discover guideline violations. Google added some details about [...]

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Bing Gets Their Shop Pages Ranked in Google for Lucrative Keywords like Gucci Belts

Looks like Bing wants to get their shop pages that are mostly just ads on bing SERP ranked on Google for some transaction heavy terms like Gucci Belts. I see them on page #2 in the [...]

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Facebook, Instagram to Ban Accounts Spreading Vaccine Lies

Facebook Inc. said it will take stronger steps to eliminate false information about Covid-19 and vaccines on its social network, a move that could remove major groups, accounts and Instagram pages for repeatedly spreading misinformation. [...]

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TikTok Takes on Facebook with US Ecommerce Push with a Suite of New Online Shopping Tools

TikTok is planning an aggressive expansion into ecommerce in the US, where it will go head-to-head with Silicon Valley giant Facebook. The Chinese-owned viral-video app has briefed advertisers on a number of new features for [...]

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GMB Looking for User Feedback on Messages via User Survey

I have a feeling Messages might not be working so well on GMB which is why Google is looking for user feedback.

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Automattic Buys Content Analytics Firm Parsely

WordPress VIP is buying content analytics company Parse.ly in a move aimed at boosting its customers’ access to information on how their content performs on social media. WordPress VIP, which is owned by Automattic Inc., [...]

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SEO

Python Script to Monitor robots.txt File Changes

An accidental “Disallow: /” can happen to anyone, but it doesn’t need to linger unnoticed. Whether you’re a webmaster, developer, or SEO, this tool can help you quickly discover unwelcome robots.txt changes.

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Twitter Considers Subscription Fee for Tweetdeck, Unique Content

To explore potential options outside ad sales, a number of Twitter teams are researching subscription offerings, including one using the code name “Rogue One,” according to people familiar with the effort. At least one idea [...]

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YouTube Is Adding a Create Button to Select Music Videos to Let Users Quickly Make TikTok-Style Videos (India Only)

The button appears under select music videos and lets users create 15-second Shorts without leaving the current screen. Upon tapping the button, the app will open the camera to let users shoot a video with [...]

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Social Media

Instagram Might Be Working on the Possibility of Blocking/Un-Blocking Multiple People

Instagram might be working on the ability to unblock multiple people at the same time from their app. NOTE: The feature was likely discovered by reverse-engineering the app to find hidden features and security vulnerabilities, [...]

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SEO

SEO Test Shows Adding Links to Nearby Locations Had a 7% Improvement in Ranking

The particular website this test relates to has around 8,000 ‘regional’ pages across the USA, each of which lists the nearby physical company locations in that geographic area. Before the test began, some of these [...]

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