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Google ‘Confirmed by phone’ label in local panel may add trust to local listings

This label seems to be based off of Google Duplex calling businesses to verify their business operation details. Google is testing displaying in some local panel listing results within search if the local details of the business have been confirmed. Google is adding a label to...
Posted On 10 Mar 2022
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IBM and SAP Partner to Assist Companies Move to the Cloud

IBM and SAP have announced a deepening of their existing partnership, with the goal of helping more companies move their SAP workflows to the cloud. SAP is one of the leading enterprise and CRM software makers and, like most companies, is working to help its customers move to the...
Posted On 09 Mar 2022
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Conductor acquires technical SEO monitoring tool ContentKing

ContentKing customers can continue to use the tool. Conductor plans to fully integrate ContentKing into its platform within 12 months. Enterprise SEO SaaS platform Conductor today announced the acquisition of ContentKing, a real-time technical SEO monitoring tool. The exact terms...
Posted On 08 Mar 2022
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4 automated campaign types and how to control them

Automation should supplement, not replace, your skills. At SMX Next, Michelle Morgan and Joe Martinez shared how they find a balance between human knowledge and machine learning for four campaign types. Paid search practitioners have expressed a lot of frustration over the...
Posted On 07 Mar 2022
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Apple Suspends Business in Russia in Response to Russian Invasion

Apple has joined other companies in imposing its own sanctions against Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine. The international community is largely relying on sanctions and economic measures to force Russia to end its invasion. Many companies have suspended business with...
Posted On 06 Mar 2022
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Miguel de Icaza, Xamarin Founder, Leaving Microsoft

Miguel de Icaza, founder of Xamarin and a developer behind the Mono framework, is leaving Microsoft. Miguel de Icaza was one of the original developers that helped create the Mono framework, in an effort to bring .Net to Linux. He went on to co-found Xamarin, a company dedicated...
Posted On 05 Mar 2022
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Bing Webmaster Tools gets a new robots.txt tester

Here is another tool you can use from Bing to see how BingBot can or cannot access your web pages. Bing has added a new feature to the new Bing Webmaster Tools: a robots.txt tester. This is a feature Bing had in the tool prior to 2009 but dropped supporting it for the past...
Posted On 04 Mar 2022
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Google testing questions and answers in the Google Maps interface

This feature first launched in 2017 in the local panel and Google appears to be testing it in Google Maps. Google is testing displaying the questions and answers feature in the Google Maps interface that it initially launched in 2017 for local panels in Google Search. Now some...
Posted On 03 Mar 2022
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Apple’s Next iPhone May Be $199 and Have 5G

Apple is reportedly preparing to release an updated iPhone SE with 5G, and it may cost as little as $199. The last iPhone SE was a sleeper hit for Apple, a phone that included the features most people care about, while still being reasonably priced. According to Bloomberg’s Mark...
Posted On 02 Mar 2022
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3 ways to optimize internal linking

Poor internal link structure can end up harming your site’s rankings. At SMX Next, Jonathan Epstein showed how marketers can prevent PageRank loss with better internal linking. Links are one of the primary ways Google and other search engines understand and rank websites....
Posted On 01 Mar 2022
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