Bing has launched a new portal for the indexing API and content submission API. Announced Friday, the new portal can be found at https://www.bing.com/webmasters/url-submission-api. The portal. The portal educates developers, web site owners and SEOs about these two APIs that Bing has been pushing for the past year or so. The portal provides an overview…
The right-sidebar featured snippet variant of Google search results has been migrated into the main results column, a Google spokesperson has confirmed. This change is the part of Google’s featured snippet deduplication, which began on January 22. Mordy Oberstein, CMO of RankRanger, spotted the update had rolled out Thursday. Google formerly showed featured snippets in…
Facebook is placing a coronavirus information center on top of all users’ news feeds with articles from vetted sources. This is being done to help ensure users are staying informed with the latest news from trusted authorities. “Today we’re announcing the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information Center, featured at the top of News Feed, to provide a…
Worldwide ad spending is still expected to grow compared to last year, says research firm eMarketer, but it has lowered its growth projections by nearly 3%. Worldwide media ad spend will increase by 7.0% to $691.7 billion in 2020 over the prior year, down from the earlier growth estimate of 7.4% to $712.02 billion. The…
Facebook is making efforts to help small businesses get through the COVID-19 pandemic with several initiatives launched this week. In addition to creating a dedicated hub for businesses affected by the coronavirus outbreak, Facebook is planning to roll out a $100 million grant program. Here’s more information about each of these initiatives. Small Business Grant…
Genevieve Head-Gordon, senior director of account services at digital agency Metric Theory presenting at SMX West 2020. In this time of uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, we’re in reactive mode. Whether your company is having trouble keeping up skyrocketing demand or experiencing a rapid decline in leads and activity, businesses are confronting an unplanned…
ADVERTISEMENT Amazon announced today that it is restricting inbound shipments for FBA to medical supplies and household staples. “We are seeing increased online shopping and as a result, some products such as household staples and medical supplies are out of stock. With this in mind, we are temporarily prioritizing household staples, medical supplies and other…
Changing consumer behaviors due to the coronavirus outbreak are straining the retail ecosystem and causing sellers to rethink their near-term inventory, fulfillment and advertising strategies on the platform. Amazon, which accounts for more than one-third of all e-commerce orders in the U.S. according to eMarketer, announced Monday that it intends to hire 100,000 fulfillment workers…
YouTube advises that, with fewer people available to review content during this time, more videos will be removed than normal. As COVID-19 evolves, YouTube is reducing staffing in certain offices. This is expected to cause disruptions, so the company is relying on automated systems to step in and keep the platform “safe.” “As a result…
“It’s surprising how fast things have changed in just a couple of days,” said Brad Geddes co-founder of PPC management tool Adalysis in an email Friday. “We’ve seen a LOT of campaigns suddenly paused. Everything from travel (even travel agents who are often booking trips 6 months to one year in advance) to car dealerships,…