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Year: 2021

Social 

Facebook, Google, Snap and Others Bypassing Apple’s Privacy Features

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New reports are demonstrating that some of the biggest iOS app makers are bypassing Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) privacy settings. Apple introduced ATT in an effort to provide users more control over their data, forcing companies to ask for permission before tracking their activity across websites and services. Theoretically, if a user asks an app not to track them, the app is supposed to respect the user’s wishes. Unfortunately, it appears some of the biggest platforms are ignoring users’ wishes and tracking them anyway. Facebook (no real surprise there),…

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SEO 

How to effectively deliver the results of your work to clients

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When working with clients, make sure you have everything you need for effective communication to build lasting relationships. One of the most challenging aspects of providing SEO services is proving the value of your work to clients. To address this problem, SE Ranking sat down with representatives of both digital agencies and businesses from the US, UK and Australia to discuss the main issues that occur in the communication between agencies and their clients and to find reasonable solutions for them. This article highlights actionable insights and useful advice shared during the…

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Google Ads refreshes custom columns UI and adds new metrics

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When it rolls out in a few weeks, advertisers will be able to reference Search, Click and Display impression share, phone call metrics, spreadsheet functions and more. Google Ads is rolling out a new user interface for custom columns as well as new metrics, a Google spokesperson has confirmed to Search Engine Land. “The update will be rolling out to all advertisers in the next few weeks,” a Google spokesperson said. Tip of the hat to PPCGreg on Twitter for first bringing this to our attention. The new custom column UI, with…

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Want to Remote Start Your Toyota? You’ll Need to Pay a Subscription

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Toyota has revealed that customers will need to pay a subscription fee to use the remote start functionality of their key fobs. Remote start is a popular add-on feature for many vehicles, and can be a life-saver in cold or extremely hot weather. Unfortunately, Toyota customers who thought their vehicles came with remote start are in for a bit of a surprise: They’ll need to pay a subscription fee to continue using it. Subscription-based services have become incredibly popular in the tech industry, with everyone from enterprise software providers to…

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Marketing 

UK Takes Aim at Adtech, Warns Against Unlawful Behavior

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Elizabeth Denham, the UK’s information commissioner, has penned a piece on the adtech market, warning against unlawful behavior. Adtech has becoming an increasingly controversial business model. No longer content to simply offer and sell goods or services for a fair price, companies have built entire businesses around treating their customers as the product, mining every last bit of data about them — whether they like it or not. Some companies are pushing back with privacy-oriented services, such as Apple’s App Tracking Transparency or DuckDuckGo’s App Tracking Protection for Android. Denham is throwing…

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Bing 

Bing Getting Ready To Launch HTML5 Interface? Live Tiles, Instant Results & More

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Rafael Rivera spotted a new Bing interface where Bing was overlaying “live titles” on top of the home page’s awesome backgrounds. This is the new Bing HTML5 interface, that Bing has been for several months. Winrumors reports that along with these “live titles,” Bing will be introducing a form of Google Instant search. The Instant […] Rafael Rivera spotted a new Bing interface where Bing was overlaying “live titles” on top of the home page’s awesome backgrounds. This is the new Bing HTML5 interface, that Bing has been for several months. Winrumors reports that along with these…

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Google’s December 2021 product reviews update was bigger than the April product reviews update, say data providers

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RankRanger and Semrush provided us with exclusive data breaking down the two product reviews updates we had this year. On December 1, 2021, Google began to roll out the second product reviews update of the year, the December 2021 product reviews update. This was at the tail-end of the November 2021 core update that finished rolling out the day before, on November 30, 2021 (note, this is an important point for this story). RankRanger and Semrush, two SEO toolsets, sent us data that showed that the December 2021 product reviews update was more volatile than the April…

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Social 

Instagram is adding more e-commerce support with ads in the Shop tab

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The test is currently limited to a handful of retailers in the U.S., but the ads, which are already showing domestically, will be rolling out globally to users in the coming months. Instagram is now testing ads in the Shop tab, TechCrunch first reported on Monday. The ads can include a single image or a carousel of images, and the test is currently only open to a handful of retailers. The ads are rolling out now to mobile users in the U.S. Why we care Ads in Instagram Shops may provide retailers…

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SEO 

As SEO becomes more complex, it involves more considerations than SEOs enjoyed in the “ten blue links” era

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The relentless pace of change in search challenges search engine optimization professionals, but tools are evolving to help. Search Engine Optimization remains the stalwart mainstay of digital marketing, with search driving around 50% of website traffic on average, according to an analysis of SimilarWeb data by Growth Badger. But the practice of SEO has become more complex and it involves more considerations than SEOs enjoyed in the “ten blue links” era. Today, SEO includes everything from content marketing and distribution to user experience. Even the core job of gathering and…

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SEM 

Demographic audiences double the reach of narrow interest audiences, Facebook says

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However, both strategies perform similarly when reach is comparable. Demographic audiences delivered nearly twice the reach (+99%) of interest audiences in campaigns with the same budget when the selected interest audiences were too narrow, according to a study of consumer packaged goods (CPG) campaigns published by Facebook. However, both types of targeting performed comparably when interest audiences were broad enough. The analysis included 50 CPG campaigns in the EMEA region, measured using Facebook Brand Lift. Why we care. The big takeaway from Facebook’s analysis is that some interest audiences are too small to generate…

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