Social Media

WhatsApp Implements New Restrictions on Message Forwarding to Limit the Spread of Misinformation

WhatsApp has announced a new restriction on message forwarding as it seeks to combat the rise of misinformation campaigns flowing through the app.

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Facebook Adds New Tools for Groups to Help Ensure Members Are Getting Accurate COVID-19 Information

Facebook has announced a new set of tools for groups related to COVID-19, which aim to provide links to accurate, timely information about the pandemic, and help to ensure that members are aware of the latest updates and changes.

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Pinterest Adds a New ‘Shopping’ Tab to Search Results

Pinterest is expanding its shopping capabilities with upgrades to existing features and new shopping tabs throughout the platform. Pinterest is introducing new ways to shop from pins, on pin boards, and in search results.

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Facebook Lets Businesses Show Temporary Service Changes on Their Facebook Pages

Businesses making temporary changes to their usual services can now prominently display those changes on their Facebook page. If a customer visits the Facebook page of their favorite restaurant, for example, they can quickly see if it’s still offering delivery and/or pickup service. If a business is simply closed for the time being, with no services being offered, that can be indicated as well. This capability is being added in response businesses being forced to close due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

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A Guide to Social Media Image Sizes in 2020

Social media. It’s entertaining, controversial, and widespread. It’s an undeniable part of the modern lifestyle. But social media isn’t only about fascinating vacation photos, late-night chats with your BFFL, and funny GIFs. It’s also a huge business platform. With 3.8 billion users, it’s the perfect place to reach out to your prospects and audience. That is, if you do it right.

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Marketing

Zoom is facing questions about how private or secure it really is

Video-conferencing platform Zoom claims it uses end-to-end encryption, but it is still able to access video and audio from meetings hosted on its app, The Intercept reported yesterday. On the same day, Vice revealed that Zoom is leaking thousands of users’ email addresses and photos, and letting strangers try to initiate calls with each other. That’s because users with the same domain name in their email address are being grouped together as if they work for the same company. Zoom told Vice that it has now blacklisted these domains.

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How the Coronavirus Pandemic Has Impacted the Travel Industry

If you manage or direct SEO, PPC, content marketing, or social media marketing for an organization in the travel industry, then you already know how hard hotels, airlines, cruise lines, tourism destinations, and online travel agencies (OTAs) have been hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Running a Small Digital Agency During COVID-19: 4 Valuable Tips

“As an agency owner or manager, these are extraordinary times. We are all desperately trying to figure things out in this era of COVID-19, just like you. What follows are four tips on managing a digital agency in the current crisis I hope these thoughts prove helpful to you. I will also share some resources I’ve run across at the end of the article.”

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Google’s Mueller Calls Web 2.0 Style Links Spammy

In a recent Webmaster Office Hours Hangout, John Mueller, Google Webmaster Trends Analyst, was asked about links from free posting sites. The technique of getting links from sites like Tumblr, classified sites, linking to your own profile in Alexa and other places that give links from profiles is called Web 2.0 Link Building. Mueller didn’t specifically say the phrase Web 2.0 Link Building but the question and answers were specifically about the Web 2.0 link strategy.

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Google Explains What’s Important For Top Rankings

In a Google After Hours Office Hangout Google’s John Mueller answered a question about links and rankings. Along the way he demonstrated that sometimes what we think we know about SEO isn’t entirely correct. He then offered advice on how to fight for the top rankings.

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