Social Media

8 Terrific Tips to Optimize a Twitter Business or Brand Profile 

There are more than 330 million monthly users and over 350,000 tweets posted per minute. You know who’s out there in that massive, engaged audience? Your potential clients and customers. If they’re on Twitter, your business or brand should be, too. It’s not just customers and clients that are active on Twitter. It’s also journalists, bloggers, and influencers who are looking for brand, fan, and company story ideas – and when they go searching for something in your vertical, you want to make sure your business shows up. And let’s not forget the passionate consumers who flock to Twitter to voice opinions, concerns, and complaints – if a conversation starts about your brand, you want to monitor it, participate and steer it.

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Facebook Outlines Content Review Board Process, Which Will Provide Independent Case Assessments

Facebook has this week mapped the next stages for the implementation of its independent Content Oversight Board, which will help the platform make more informed decisions on what should, and should not be allowed to be shared across its network under its rules. The Content Oversight Board, which Facebook has been working on over the last year, will review cases where users disagree with initial content decisions made by Facebook – whether that’s resulted in content being removed or left up after their complaint. Some of these cases, according to Facebook, “go to the core of how we balance safety and free expression”, and as such, the Oversight Board will provide additional, independent review, and recommend subsequent action to Facebook, one way or another.

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Marketing

All Google Ads Campaigns to Utilize Standard Delivery As of May 2020

Google Ads is making standard delivery the only ad delivery method for all campaigns, including Display, Video, App, and Hotel campaigns. Google Ads began migrating campaigns from accelerated delivery to standard delivery last October, starting with Search and Shopping campaigns. Starting in April 2020, accelerated delivery will no longer be available as an ad delivery method for any new Display, Video, App, and Hotel campaigns. All existing Display, Video, App and Hotel campaigns using accelerated delivery will be automatically switched to standard delivery starting May 2020.Google says standard delivery is most suitable for all campaigns because it takes into account expected ad performance throughout the day.

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Google Has Stopped Deduplicating Right-Sidebar Featured Snippets

Google still plans to remove featured snippets from the right rail and move the feature to the main listings. URLs for pages that earn the right-sidebar featured snippet currently appear twice on the first results page. Since this is temporary, site owners should monitor their traffic and click-through rate. When the format gets pushed into the main column, those URLs will only appear once within the organic results, as they do for regular featured snippets.

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