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YouTube Moves to Restrict Videos About COVID-19/5G Conspiracy Theory

Over the past few weeks, both Google and Facebook have begun sharing location-tracking information with various authorities around the world in order to help them plan their COVID-19 containment strategies, and better ensure that they’re addressing key areas of concern. The data provided is anonymized and aggregated, so there are no personally identifying markers. But the data does track people’s movements – for example, Google’s Mobility Reports, which it’s made available for 131 countries and regions, show foot traffic trends at different locations over time.

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10 Tools to Help You Generate More Engaging Content Ideas for Your Blog [Infographic]

Are you struggling to come up with new content ideas? Need help creating engaging content to share with your readers and followers? The team from Red Website Design shares 10 tools to help generate blog content ideas in this infographic.

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A guide to hosting virtual events on YouTube

In this moment, where business as usual is anything but, more and more businesses are being forced to reconsider their events strategy. The possibilities that technology affords us today mean that digital events, whether video on demand or live stream, are a readily available option. If you’ve decided that hosting a virtual event is the way to go, below is a downloadable guide you can use for making videos and hosting events on YouTube, complete with links to many more resources and video tutorials.

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Marketing

Google May Be Forced to Reveal its Search Algorithm to an SEO

Google is involved in a lawsuit that has the potential to result in the company revealing its long-guarded algorithm secrets. As part of the lawsuit, Google has been given an ultimatum by UK courts to either withdraw evidence to its defence or disclose the details of its search algorithm. Not only would Google have to hand over the details of its algorithm, it would have to hand them over to a working SEO consultant.

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How to Spot SEO Myths: 7 Common SEO Myths, Debunked

There’s a lot of advice going around about SEO. Some of it is very helpful, some of it will lead you astray if acted on. The difficulty is knowing which is which. It can be hard to identify what advice is accurate and based on fact, and what is just regurgitated from misquoted articles, or poorly understood Google statements. SEO myths abound. You’ll hear them in the strangest places. A client will tell you with confidence how they are suffering from a duplicate content penalty. Your boss will chastise you for not keeping your page titles to 60 characters. Sometimes the myths are obviously fake. Other times they can be harder to detect.

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Coronavirus: How Google is helping

As CEO Sundar Pichai wrote on Friday, COVID-19 is affecting our communities in different ways. Many in Europe and the Americas are just now beginning to experience what people in Asia have been confronting for weeks, he noted. We’re operating in an increasingly dynamic market. People around the world are looking for helpful advice and accurate information. For example, searches for “travel advice” or “flight status” are rising. Google has also seen people’s searches shift to immediate needs.

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