How the Coronavirus Pandemic Has Impacted the Travel Industry via @gregjarboe
The travel industry has been badly hit coronavirus pandemic. Here’s how hotels, airlines, and online travel agencies (OTAs) are responding.
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Google Logo Says Stay Home. Save Lives. With Coronavirus Tips Results
If you go to the Google.com home page and see the Doodle today, it will be an animated GIF recommending you stay home, save lives with things to do at home. Then if you click on the logo, you get a search result page that is widely different from a normal Google search result page.
Bing Testing New Curvy Logo
It looks like Bing is testing a new logo, one with curves. The current logo has sharp edges and corners but the new one gives the whole logo softer edges, more curves and maybe a friendly look.
Google: We Are Not Filtering Out Sites For Coronavirus Searches
Google’s John Mueller was asked if Google is filtering out web sites for searches related to the coronavirus. John said no, he isn’t “aware of anything where we’re manually filtering out sites specifically around health terms.” He did say that Google wants to show a higher level of sites for health related terms and he also said Google does have special one boxes of information.
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 3, 2020
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…
Google SEO 101: Image Search Best Practices & Changes Over the Years via @MattGSouthern
Changes to Google’s image search results over the years, and current best practices, are discussed in a newly uploaded presentation.
Google Search Console COVID-19 Announcement Beta Tool
As part of the structured data specific to COVID-19 announcements that we covered the other day, Google has launched a new beta tool for posting an announcement to your search results listing using Google Search Console.
Google Posts New Guide On How To Use Structured Data With JavaScript
Google has posted a new developer help document guiding SEOs and webmasters on how to use structured data with JavaScript.
New Facebook Features for Video Publishers & This Week’s Digital Marketing News [PODCAST] via @shepzirnheld
This week, the Marketing O’Clock team talks about new features that make video publishing on Facebook easier than ever before.