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Digital Marketing News Roundup

March 29th - 2021

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Today’s digital marketing roundup includes news that Google Tests Showing Competitors Under Alternative Tab in Location Panel, Google Tests Showing Competitors in Google My Business Messaging Feature and more.

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Facebook Is Teating a Feature That Lets You Pin Posts On Personal Profiles

Facebook is testing a new feature for personal profiles where you can pin posts. It’s not a full rollout so only some users can see this.

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Vulnerability Discovered in Facebook WordPress Plugin

Multiple vulnerabilities were recently discovered in Facebook for WordPress, formerly known as Official Facebook Pixel, a WordPress plugin installed on over 500,000 sites. This flaw made it possible for unauthenticated attackers with access to a [...]

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Google Tests Showing Competitors in Google My Business Messaging Feature

Some users have noticed that when you clicked on the “Request a Quote” button for a listing to use the Google My Business messaging feature, it gave them a screen that asked if they wanted [...]

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YouTube Provides New Overview of Shorts for Creators, Answers Common Shorts Questions

With YouTube recently expanding its TikTok-like ‘Shorts’ option to beta users in the US, the platform has also provided a new overview of how Shorts works, and answered some of the most common questions about the new [...]

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Google Launches a Best Things for Portal, Affiliate Sites Won't Be Happy About This

Google is claiming to make it easier for you to discover top products with the Best Things for Everything Guide, a microsite that highlights 1,000 products based on what’s popular on the web, so you [...]

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SEJ's 202 Top SEO Experts You Should Be Following

I made it onto a list. Search Engine Journal has published their 202 Top SEO Experts you should be following list and I am on there so I am sharing it with everyone I know, [...]

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Google Tests Showing Pricing Overlay for Expandable Product Image on eCommerce Category Pages

Some users are seeing a pricing overlay on the image grid below the description field in the SERPs for eCommerce category pages. There a re a few variations being tested. Variation #1 has the most [...]

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Microsoft Proposes Method To Automatically Submit URLs From WordPress To Search Engines

Microsoft wants to build into the core of WordPress the ability to automatically push new and updated URLs to Bing and other search engines. Fabrice Canel, the Principal Program Manager at Microsoft Bing, has submitted [...]

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Twitter's Developing New Community Tools to Share Tweets with Selected Audiences

Back in February, as part of its Analyst Day presentation, Twitter previewed a new, groups-like option called ‘Communities’, which would enable Twitter users to share their tweets within selected sub-groups of users, as opposed to sharing [...]

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Cloudflare Launches Super Bot Fight Mode for Pro or Business Users

They have added advanced features in the dashboard and some updates to analytics. There is a new hub for bot protection. Head to the Firewall app and select the “Bots” subtab to get started. Some [...]

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Google Assistant Memory Wants To Become Your New Pinterest Board

Google is working on a new feature called “Memory” for Google Assistant that saves your content in one convenient place. The feature is described as “an easy, quick way to save and find everything in [...]

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Search Console Crawl Stats Report Data Reporting Issues from March 10-23 2021

If you are seeing a drop in the crawl stats reports on search console from March 10th to the 23rd, this is a known bug due to an internal reporting issue. This issue did not [...]

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Google Launches Practice Problems and Math Solvers SERP Features

Google has officially launched Practice Problems and Math Solvers SERP Features and now you can add these to your webpages using the new structured data markup for the practice problems and math solver search results. [...]

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Google Adds New Optional Property IsAccessibleForFree To The Dataset Documentation

Google has updated the Dataset Structured Data to add a new optional Boolean property (can be set to true or false) called IsAccessibleForFree. When set to true it means that the dataset is accessible for [...]

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Possible Google Update on 28 March 2021

Looks like most of the SERP position tackers are noticing a big change today, in SEMRush I can see a 5.3/10 volatility score in the US and a 5/10 volatility score in AU on 28th. [...]

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WordPress to Drop Support for IE11 in Upcoming 5.8 or 5.9 Release

In early March, WordPress contributors began discussing the possibility of dropping support for IE11 in the near future after usage fell below ~1%. This week, the discussion’s facilitator, Héctor Prieto, confirmed the majority of participants are in agreement to [...]

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Facebook And Amazon Are Now The Top Lobbying Spenders In The US

Facebook and Amazon have become the country’s two biggest corporate lobbying spenders, investing almost twice as much as oil giant ExxonMobil and tobacco company Philip Morris in 2020, according to a new report published by [...]

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Walmart Expands Marketplace, Challenging Amazon

Emboldened by a pandemic-driven increase in digital sales, Walmart has decided to challenge Amazon’s dominance in the ecommerce arena. Walmart is presumably the only retailer with the financial resources, logistical prowess, and size to do [...]

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Google Tests Showing Competitors Under Alternative Tab in Location Panel

This would suck for business owners, Google was seen testing an Alternative Tab in the Location Panel where they list out the brand’s competitors.

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