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Pinterest starts showing how many views your business profile gets

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One could argue social media has always been a popularity contest based on friend-counts and likes, but Pinterest is making it even more explicit thanks to some new changes to business profiles. The most notable change is the addition of…
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Chrome browser blocks autoplaying videos with sound

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Vides that automatically start playing with the sound cranked all the way up have long been the scourge of the internet. They’ve interrupted our listening to music, quiet browsing in public places, and they’ve even interrupted videos we…
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Google My Business lets you share service menus in your listings

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Menus aren’t just for restaurants on Google anymore. Google My Business has finally expanded their menu feature to allow businesses to create and share a service menu describing the various services you offer and their prices. The process…
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Check if Facebook shared your info with Cambridge Analytica

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Days before Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify to Congress about the social network’s role in allowing Cambridge Analytica to exploit user data, Facebook is working to make it easy to see if your information was shared with the…
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Bing adds more ads to the bottom of search results, removes sidebar text ads

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Bing is changing up how ads appear in its search engine by increasing the number of ads present at the bottom of the page and removing text ads from the sidebar of search results for US users. Specifically, Bing is increasing from 3 bottom-of-the-page…
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Pinterest opens its Shopping Ads to hundreds of businesses

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Pinterest’s Shopping Ads, which create ads directly from your existing Pins and content, have officially moved out of testing and been made available to hundreds of advertisers across the country. Shopping Ads launched to a handful of major…
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Google says it is blocking more than 100 “bad ads” per second

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Google has released its latest “Bad Ads” report, which shows the search giant is cracking down harder than ever on ads that violate its advertising policies. In total, the search engine and ad platform has removed over 3.2 billion ads…
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Twitter cracks down on “tweetdecking” to artificially boost content

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Twitter has shut down numerous accounts accused of artificially increasing the popularity of their posts using a method called “tweetdecking.” Tweetdecking gets its name from the app TweetDeck, which can schedule posts ahead of time.…
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Google’s John Mueller explains how often your web pages get indexed

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If you operate a website that is frequently creating or changing pages - such as an e-retail or publishing site – you’ve probably noticed it can take Google a while to update the search engine with your new content. This has led to widespread…
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