ADVERTISEMENT Facebook is making three distinct changes to the way videos are distributed in the news feed. The changes will also affect recommendations in the “More Videos” section. Facebook says the underlying goal of these changes is to further prioritize original videos that users are actively looking for. 3 Ranking Factors for Videos Facebook is…
Google is surfacing its recommendations beyond the Recommendations page in the Google Ads web interface. Recommendations in the new Google Ads UI is a more robust, machine learning-powered replacement of the old Opportunities tab. It now appears Google will also make those automated recommendations visible when users are in other areas of the interface. The…
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Not every prospective customer is ready to buy right away. Most don’t want to talk to a salesperson the instant they visit your site. However, they may be willing to give you their contact information in exchange for a resource you provide to them. As competition for bottom of funnel attention grows, the importance of…
In a Google Webmaster Hangout, someone asked if poor quality pages of a site could drag down the rankings of the entire site. Google’s John Mueller’s answer gave insights into how Google judges and ranks web pages and sites. Do a Few Pages Drag Down the Entire Site? The question asked if a section of…
Social Media Marketing Industry Report In our 10th annual social media study (44 pages, 70+ charts) of 5700+ marketers, you’ll discover which social networks marketers most plan on using, organic social activities, paid social media plans, and much more! Get this free report and never miss another great article from Social Media Examiner.
Imagine a beautiful world where every one of your customers tells you what they think of your brand in complete honesty, and even those who don’t want to be your customers tell you why it is the case. And even though the truth might hurt sometimes, this scenario is a dream come true for marketers…
Social Media Marketing Industry Report In our 10th annual social media study (44 pages, 70+ charts) of 5700+ marketers, you’ll discover which social networks marketers most plan on using, organic social activities, paid social media plans, and much more! Get this free report and never miss another great article from Social Media Examiner.
Google has alerted site owners that nearly all of last month’s reports in Search Console were affected by a data outage. A data outage occurred between April 9-25. The problem was fixed on April 26, however, the data was not recovered. All missing data from April 9-25 was replaced with the data from April 26.…
One common security vulnerability developers must take into account is the Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) problem. The XSS exploit can be mitigated or defended against by using sanitization procedures that test values of variables in GET and POST requests. Server-side attacks exist, as well, but are well beyond the scope here. Apparently, Googlebot and indexing currently…