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Bing Social Search Now Recommends People To Follow On Twitter

February 14, 2022 news

Who’s an expert in a particular topic that you might want to follow on Twitter? Bing Social Search has a new feature offering these types of recommendations. Do a search on Bing Social Search for anything, such as apple, and Bing comes back with recommendations like this on the right-hand side of the page: Hits… […] Who’s an expert in a particular topic that you might want to follow on Twitter? Bing Social Search has a new feature offering these types of recommendations. Do a search on Bing Social Search for…

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How to create a multi-site indexing monitoring system using the URL Inspection API and Analytics Edge

February 12, 2022 news

In this tutorial, you’ll learn a step-by-step process you can use to create a multisite URL Inspection monitoring system. On January 31, Google released the URL Inspection API, enabling you to programmatically check the status of URLs in bulk (based on properties you have access to in GSC). Although you could always inspect one URL at a time in GSC to see if a URL was indexed, this is the first time you can check the indexing status of URLs in bulk (based on data directly from Google). The API opens…

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How marketers can create a holistic search strategy

February 10, 2022February 10, 2022 news

SEO and PPC teams can empower each other when they work together. At SMX Next, Allison Duvall and Hannah Johnson of Merkle shared how marketers can create holistic search strategies. Organic and paid search channels are huge sources of traffic for websites (roughly 68%), yet few marketing teams know how to align the tactics, insights and goals of both effectively. This is why so many search professionals speak of implementing holistic strategies. “Building a holistic search strategy can be tricky,” said Hannah Johnson, associate SEO manager at Merkle, at SMX Next. “You…

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Google launches revamped Search Ads 360

February 9, 2022 news

The new Search Ads 360 supports Performance Max and Discovery campaigns, includes a refreshed UI and greater support for other search engines. Google has revamped Search Ads 360, its enterprise campaign management platform, the company announced Tuesday. The update includes support for some newer Google Ads features (like Performance Max and Discovery campaigns), greater support for other search engines, a refreshed UI as well as workflow improvements. The refresh Search Ads 360 interface. Image: Google. The new experience will start rolling out over the next few months. Google will share migration timelines…

Signal Adds Ability to Change Numbers Without Losing Chats

February 8, 2022 news

Signal has added a major new feature, allowing people to change their phone number without losing their chats. Signal is one of the most secure messaging platforms on the market, but that level of security sometimes comes with convenience compromises. Until now, one such compromise meant that changing one’s phone number would result in a loss of all previous chats. The company has now addressed that issue, providing a way to change numbers, while still keeping old messages. If you’re getting a new phone, but keeping your old number, you can use our end-to-end…

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Meta May Leave EU Market Over Privacy Regulations

February 7, 2022 news

Meta is threatening to leave the EU market if it’s not allowed to share EU user data with its US-based data centers. The EU ruled in 2020 that using US cloud providers was a violation of the GDPR. Because they are often required to hand over data to intelligence agencies, US companies are not capable of being compliant with the privacy protections the GDPR provides EU citizens. While many companies, on both sides of the Atlantic, have ignored the ruling, the Austrian Data Protection Authority recently ruled that it is illegal for…

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Bing Says Its New Facebook Like Integration Really, Really Is Live

February 5, 2022 news

The Bing Search Blog officially announced that the Facebook integration on Bing is live. Last week, we reported some were already seeing “liked results” on Bing. But now or by the end of today, “all US users” should have access to this feature. Personally, I still do not see it, but you may. To test […] The Bing Search Blog officially announced that the Facebook integration on Bing is live. Last week, we reported some were already seeing “liked results” on Bing. But now or by the end of today, “all US users” should…

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Google finally launches revamped Partners program

February 4, 2022 news

After nearly two years, the new Partners program requirements have taken effect and Google will notify all Partners of their current status. Google has launched the new Google Partners program, the company announced Wednesday. This means that Partners program requirement changes have now taken effect. Google will notify all Partners of their current status. Those that have already met the new requirements will receive their Partners badge immediately and those that have not will receive their badge as soon as they meet all the requirements. Google initially announced requirement changes to this program in February…