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Facebook blocks Trump for remainder of term while Twitter sets permanent ban Numerous advertisers have paused their social media campaigns over the events at the Capitol. Barry Schwartz on January 11, 2021 at 11:27 am More Last Wednesday, America went through surreal times when a large group of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol after the President posted numerous social media posts on Twitter and Facebook inciting action from those supporters. Facebook has blocked President Donald Tr...

Google said this is currently an experiment but will share more details on how publishers can participate later.

In a bid to retain users on its platform, Google is testing a new feature where Instagram and TikTok videos will appear in their own dedicated carousel in the Google app for mobile devices, the media reported on Wednesday.According to a report ...

TikTok and Instagram’s Reels are growing more than ever. Now, Google is also taking the growth into consideration as it will surface Instagram Reels and TikTok videos in the Google App for mobile devices. These will appear in their dedicated carousel. The move is said to help Google retain users in search of social video entertainment from fully leaving its platform.  It is an expansion of a feature introduced earlier this year that introduced a carousel of “Short Videos” within Google...

Google algorithm updates 2020 in review: Core updates, passage indexing and page experience Despite the pandemic, Google was busy working on changes to its search ranking algorithm — here is a summary review of those changes through 2020. Barry Schwartz on December 30, 2020 at 8:00 am More This year will forever be known as the year that brought introspection, slowed people down and had them focus less on business and more on family. But, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, business must g...

Google confirms passage indexing is not yet live We expected this to roll out in 2020 but that seems unlikely now. Barry Schwartz on December 22, 2020 at 8:02 pm More Google’s Danny Sullivan has confirmed with us that Google has not yet rolled out passage indexing. Initially we expected, based on the original announcement, that Google would roll out passage indexing by the end of the year – 2020. But since it is not rolled out yet, I suspect Google will hold the launch until early ...

Google Search Console brings back request indexing tool After 69 days of it not working, it is now back up and running. Barry Schwartz on December 22, 2020 at 12:47 pm More Google has reenabled the request indexing tool, within the URL Inspection tool in Google Search Console. The tool was disabled on October 14, 2020 – 69 days ago – and it was expected to come back before the holiday shopping season. That came and past but it is now back before Christmas and New Years. It’s back....

Google releases Google Ads Editor v1.5 This update brings new tools for ad strength, support for additional recommendations, and image extensions. Barry Schwartz on December 16, 2020 at 4:22 pm More Google has announced it released version 1.5 of the Google Ads Editor. Google Ads Editor is downloadable application for managing your Google Ads campaigns. Some advertisers find it more efficient to use the Ads Editor to manage their campaigns over using the web interface. Google said “t...

Google December 2020 core update is now fully rolled out Make sure to review your analytics and data and take the necessary steps if your site was negatively impacted. Barry Schwartz on December 16, 2020 at 1:55 pm More Google has confirmed minutes ago that the December 2020 broad core update that began rolling out on December 3, 2020 is now completely rolled out. Google said “the December 2020 Core Update rollout is complete.” The facts. What we know from Google, as we previously...

Google temporarily disables issue validation in Search Console Yet another feature has been disabled in Google Search Console, this comes months after Google disabled the request indexing tool. Barry Schwartz on December 16, 2020 at 8:25 am More Google has temporarily disabled yet another feature in Google Search Console, the issue validation function is currently disabled. Google said it is “temporarily disabled due to upcoming changes in the report.” There is not estimated time f...