If you are tired of being constantly spammed by live video notifications from Facebook pages, or have put off testing your own live video due to fallout of people unliking pages to turn off those notifications, you will love this change. Facebook is adding a new options to turn off notifications from all live videos. […]
Archives for April 2016
Bing Changes Local Pack Numbers & Icons to Purple
It seems that Bing is changing things up with new Yahoo-esque purple in their local map packs, changing the listing numbers and the map markers to purple. Bing hasn’t changed the formatting within the map pack at all, the color seems to be the only thing they are changing at the moment. They have also […]
Bing Also Showing Ads on Their Local Finder Page
Bing is also showing Bing Ads on their Local Finder page, the page that Bing displays when a searcher clicks through from one of their local pack listings in the regular search results. Here is how it displays: These look like typical search ads, with the blue title, green URL and black description text. They […]
Google Testing Purple AdWords Ad Tag & Local Map Markers
Google is testing purple “ad” tags on AdWords ads on their local map results, along with matching purple map markers and icons for the related search results. I actually spotted this back on the 19th, but wasn’t entirely sure if it was new or not. However, it seems others began noticing it within the last […]
Major Bit.ly Outage: Bit.ly & Many Custom URL Shorteners Not Loading
Using Bit.ly or attempting to access a bit.ly URL? Bit.ly shortened links have not been working for over an hour this morning. This means any tweets, emails, or other marketing where you used a bit.ly URL shortner will not load for users, and will instead be greeted, eventually, with a timed out message. The outage […]
3 DIY SEO Action Items for a $0 Budget
SEO is a marathon, not a sprint. It takes a methodical, slow-and-steady approach to achieve long-term results that can actual give you a decent return on investment. The issue with slow and steady is that it can cost a fair bit up front. Many SEO strategies are front-loaded, requiring technical clean up, baseline reporting, and […]
Facebook Adds “Time on Page”, Diversity To News Feed Algo
Facebook has added some new signals to the news feed algo… and while they say it will have little affect on Facebook Pages and marketers, it actually will – especially those who write pretty short articles and those who are very prolific with content that is shared a lot. “Time on Page” Facebook is now […]
Google Chrome: One Billion Monthly Active Users on Mobile
If you still aren’t convinced that it is important to make a site mobile friendly, Google has released a new and pretty impressive stat. Avinash Kaushik, a Digital Marketing Evangelist with Google, tweeted that Google Chrome passed one billion monthly active users this month… for mobile alone. Impressive milestone: Google Chrome passed one billion Monthly […]
Google Expands AMP Into Google News
Google has been saying since they initially launched AMP that Google would be expanding the use of AMP. And now we know where it is starting… the news results. The fact Google is first expanding into news isn’t a big surprise. After all, AMP results first started appearing in the “In the news” results. So […]
Google To Show TV Show Listings & Sources in Search Results
Google is making a great new addition to the search results… when searches are searching for a TV show, Google will display the TV station with days and times of the show being aired. They will also show the various apps and sites where episodes are available for streaming. Google made the announcement Wednesday and […]