tl;dr Marketing February 11th - 2021 Issue

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February 11th - 2021

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Today’s digital marketing roundup includes news that TikTok Tests a Recipe Card Feature, Facebook Is Reportedly Working on a Clubhouse Clone and more.

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Google Ads API v6.1 is Out

Google just announced the v6.1 release of the Google Ads API. To use some of the v6.1 features, you will need to upgrade your client libraries and client code. Here are the highlights: Retrieving and managing recommendations [...]

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Facebook Tests a News Feed with Less Politics

Facebook announced today that it’s testing changes to the News Feed that would downrank political content. The company says the results will help determine how it treats such content in the future; content from health [...]

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SEO

Bing Search Recommends Queries & Sites Based On Activity & What's Popular

Bing is now recommending additional search queries to try out and websites to check out based on your activity and what’s popular.

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Vulnerability Discovered in Responsive Menu

Responsive Menu WordPress plugin has 100,000+ active installations and can be used to easily create mobile friendly menus. With versions prior to 4.0.3, there were multiple vulnerabilities discovered by researchers. The first flaw made it [...]

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Social Media

TikTok Tests a Recipe Card Feature

Looks like TikTok’s got a recipe card feature via an integration with Whisk

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Instagram Is Rolling out Video Chat Rooms to More Users

Looks like more users will begin to start seeing this feature on Instagram.

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SEO

Google Code Shows Plans for a Page Experience Filter in the Performance Report on Search Console

Internal code shows that we might get a page experience filter in the performance report on Search Console. NOTE: The feature was likely discovered by reverse-engineering the app to find hidden features and security vulnerabilities, [...]

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Lead Gen Form in SERP from Google Ads

Lead form extensions help you connect with potential customers by letting them share information with you directly in your ad. To help you generate more leads, you can now show a lead form when people [...]

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Publisher Ads Audits for Lighthouse v1.4.1 is Out

Gogole just announced the general release of Publisher Ads Audits for Lighthouse v1.4.1. The major highlights of this release are: New audits to check for Google Publisher Tag errors and warnings. Updated thresholds for ad and bid requests when [...]

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SEO

Google News Showcase Launches in UK and Argentina

News Showcase launches in the UK and Argentina with the Financial Times, the Telegraph, Evening Standard and Clarin and more than 120 other publishers.

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Google Blocks Local Services Ads for Locksmiths in Germany, Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands

In February 2021, the Google Ads Local Services policy was updated to clarify that ads for locksmiths services are not able to run in Germany, Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands. Violations of this policy will [...]

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Facebook Is Reportedly Working on a Clubhouse Clone

Facebook has reportedly set its sights on social audio. The New York Times reports today that the company is working on a copycat of Clubhouse, the buzzy invite-only social audio startup. The Times reports the product is in the “early [...]

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SEO

Googler Shares Some Thoughts on Image SEO Best Practices

John Mueller, Search Advocate at Google, dives into how images work on Google, using images to achieve your site’s goals, and SEO and optimization best practices for images.

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Social Media

During Black History Month Instagram Will Highlight Black-Owned Brands at the Top of the Shop Tab

Looks like Instagram will highlighting Black-owned brands at the top of the Shop tab on Instagram this month using a #BuyBlack hashtag.

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General

Man to Pay £25,000 Damages over Negative TrustPilot Review

A man who left a negative review of a legal firm on the TrustPilot website has been ordered to pay £25,000 ($34,000) in libel damages. Philip James Waymouth engaged London law firm Summerfield Browne online [...]

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Social Media

TikTok’s Sale to Oracle Is Put on Hold

A U.S. plan to force the sale of TikTok’s American operations to a group including Oracle Corp. and Walmart Inc. has been shelved indefinitely, people familiar with the situation said, as President Biden undertakes a [...]

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