A new notification from Google My Business will tell businesses when their local listings go live. Google My Business (GMB) is rolling out a new feature to notify business owners when their local listings go live in Google Maps and…
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Facebook receives $664,000 UK privacy fine, which could have been $1.9B under GDPR
A US FTC investigation could also bring billions more in potential penalties. Facebook has received a £500,000 fine ($664,000) in the UK resulting from the Cambridge Analytica data-harvesting scandal. The fine was imposed, according to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO),…
Facebook Improves Admin Tools for Groups, Introduces Enterprise Collaboration
Facebook has launched several updates for its Groups to help admins manage them efficiently and keep communities safe. The rollout of new tools, controls, and additional features are in line with the company’s focus on creating engagement in various communities…
Twitter’s New Ads Transparency Center Reveals Who Buys Ads on Its Platform
With the midterm elections coming up, Twitter users will have to brace themselves for a barrage of ads. But this time around, they’ll also be getting information on who paid for those ads and why they received said advertisement. Twitter…
Twitter’s New Ads Transparency Center Reveals Who Buys Ads on Its Platform
With the midterm elections coming up, Twitter users will have to brace themselves for a barrage of ads. But this time around, they’ll also be getting information on who paid for those ads and why they received said advertisement. Twitter…
SEMPO Adds New Board Members, SEMPO Tahoe Builds Steam; Will SEMPO Survive?
A press released was announced today from SEMPO that they have elected three new board members. “The new SEMPO Advisory Board members are Chris LaSala, the Search Engine Marketing Channel Manager at Google; Neg Norton, the President of the Yellow…
Google Mobile First Index Expanding Within Next Several Weeks
Yesterday (as I covered at SEL), Gary Illyes from Google said at PubCon that Google will be rolling in more web sites into the mobile first index starting over the next several weeks. Google first began moving some sites into…
Bing Ads Expands Their Bing Partner Program
Bing announced this week that they have expanded their Bing Ads Partner program. Bing said “we are excited to announce the expanded Bing Partner Program.” The expanded program is available to partners in the United States, and some customers in…
5 Ways to Use FoMO in Your Online Marketing Strategy
It’s human nature to want to be “connected” or “in the know.” In the past, not knowing where new water and food sources are could result in death. The situation now isn’t as dire as it was before, but the…
What is SEM?
If you are coming to this article as a novice, I know what you are thinking. “Not another damned 3 letter acronym! Don’t we have enough?” Well, apparently not, and unfortunately there isn’t all that much we can do to…