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Google adds 3 new content guidelines for Education Q&A structured data

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Google provides new guidance around how to stay eligible to earn and maintain visibility in the education Q&A rich results. Google has added a new Content Guidelines section to its help document on Education Q&A structured data. The new guidelines. Here are the new guidelines Google has added: Education Q&A pages must follow the same content guidelines for Q&A pages. Your page must contain education related questions and answers. There must be at least one question and answer pairing on your page, and the answer must be related to and answer the…

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Twitter now has podcasts

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Twitter introduced the new redesign yesterday as a way to give listeners more opportunities to connect with podcast creators. Twitter has now integrated podcasts into it’s recently redesigned Spaces Tab. How does it work. The redesign of Spaces includes hubs where users can personalize audio content together by specific themes like News, Music, Sports, and more. The new design allows listeners to easily access more personalized sections of Spaces on topics they find relevant. What else is included. The new Spaces will also feature the most popular podcasts from around the world.…

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SEM 

Video: Joe Beccalori on the diminishing value of organic

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We go way back to discuss how SEO has changed over the years. In this week’s video interview, I spoke with Joe Beccalori, the CEO of Interact Marketing, about how SEO has changed over the years. Joe explained that with the changes to the search results page, the value of organic search has diminished and now you need to blend your organic search efforts with other forms of digital marketing in order to get your best bang for your SEO buck. At the start of the video we also spent some…

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Bad website design: Bad for SEO, UX and business

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Are these design elements slowing your download times and keeping your website from doing what you need it to do: earn you more business? I tell my clients two things to frame organic search discussions around content and user experience: Search engines want to provide answers to their users in one click or less. If you design your website with the idea of getting answers to visitors’ questions as efficiently as possible, your site should earn more attention in organic search Search engines must keep their users happy to retain and/or…

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TikTok announces three new shopping ad features

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The platform aims to help shop merchants maximize performance through algorithm-led commerce offerings. Just one month after TikTok supposedly abandoned plans to bring shopping ads into the US, the social media video platform announced that it’s launching a new commerce ad suite called Shopping Ads. They will be testing three new ad formats including Video Shopping Ads, Catalog LIsting Ads, and LIVE Shopping Ads. Video Shopping Ads Video Shopping Ads will be placed in the For You page and allow advertisers to highlight products in their feed TikTok video ads. TikTok says…

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Marketing 

Pinterest introduces hosted checkout for merchants

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The new feature attempts to make the checkout process easier for merchants to convert shoppers by removing several steps. Pinterest just introduced an easier way for shoppers to check out on their platform. Hosted checkout is here. Hosted checkout is being launched first on Shopify and provides Pinterest merchants and advertisers an easier way for their shoppers to check out. The new feature should remove several steps from the current purchase process, which should increase conversions and decrease cart abandonments. Improving the current process. Previously, merchants and advertisers who used Pinterest to…

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Bing 

Ad extensions for the entire decision journey

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How can you use ad extensions to move potential customers further down the sales funnel? Columnist Mona Elesseily shares some tactical advice. Not only do ad extensions work to encourage immediate sales, but they can also be used to move consumers along the decision journey/buy cycle. In our work, we’ve effectively used ad extensions in many stages of the buy cycle, for instance: When searchers research products online (research stage) When searchers home in on a specific product When searchers want to see products in person/offline And, of course, when they are ready…

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Google expands phrase match to include broad match modifier traffic

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Broad match modifier will be phased out as part of the change. Changes are coming to Google’s phrase match and broad match modifier keyword match types, the company announced Thursday. Phrase match will expand to include additional broad match modifier traffic and support for broad match modifier will end. The changes will start rolling out in two weeks. How phrase match will change. Currently, an advertiser using broad match modifier for the keywords +moving +services +NYC +to +Boston may show up for the search query “moving services NYC to Boston.” However, the ad…

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Social 

What Every Marketer Should Know About Social Audience Engagement

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Using psychographics and social behavior data, marketers can now go beyond demographic targeting to create completely custom audiences. We can understand what consumers love, what they want, and even what they are going to do next. On Tuesday, December 15, join Bob Ciccone and Chris Leet of Netbase in this webcast to learn about an […] Using psychographics and social behavior data, marketers can now go beyond demographic targeting to create completely custom audiences. We can understand what consumers love, what they want, and even what they are going to…

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Google Search Console reported pages as being indexed when they were not indexed

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This affected “many” Google Search Console properties, so make sure to check your reports in the next couple of days. Google said there was a bug with its coverage report in Search Console where Google reported pages as being indexed, when in fact, they were not indexed by Google Search. Google said this “affected many properties” and thus, you should probably double-check your coverage reports for the sites you manage over the next few days. The announcement. Google wrote “Today we fixed a Search Console issue that affected many properties: we…

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