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SEO community mourns Hamlet Batista, advocate for automation in SEO and beloved friend

RankSense’s Maura Loew shares what it was like to work with Hamlet as we reflect on his career and contributions to the community. RankSense CEO Hamlet Batista, a mentor to many in the SEO community and someone fellow marketer Mike King called “the best of us,” died on Tuesday...
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Tesla Moving Its Headquarters to Texas

Another major company is moving its headquarters out of California, as Tesla is moving its headquarters to Texas. California has been losing companies at a record pace. Oracle, HPE and a slew of smaller companies have been leaving, or moving their headquarters out of the state....
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Brexit May Have Cost the UK an Intel Factory

Intel has ruled out the possibility of building a factory in the UK, thanks to Brexit. Chipmakers and governments are looking to expand semiconductor production outside of Asia. The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the danger of having the bulk of the world’s chip supplies coming...
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Bing Now Handpicks News Writers For Its Social Sidebar

Bing is dipping its toes into a form of what Google calls “authorship” with today’s announcement that news writers are now being featured in Bing’s Social Sidebar. U.S.-based searchers can now see journalists appearing in the “People Who Know” section of the Bing sidebar. These...
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Google pushes back FLoC testing to Q1 2022

Google has updated its Privacy Sandbox timeline, delaying testing for several APIs, including FLoC and FLEDGE, to early next year. Google’s monthly Privacy Sandbox timeline update indicates that the company will push back FLoC testing from Q4 2021 (announced in July) to Q1 2022....
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Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp Offline for Hours

Facebook is having major issues, as the company’s services have been down for hours, as of Monday afternoon. Individuals first started reporting issues late Monday morning, with virtually all of Facebook’s major properties impacted, including Facebook, Facebook Messenger,...
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A simple 3-step framework for improving your technical SEO

From migrating your website to an HTTPS domain to robust keyword research to optimizing H1 tags, there’s no end to the improvements you can make. In a world where everyone’s fighting for relevance in search, technical SEO is a Swiss army knife you can use to improve your site’s...
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Seizing your data destiny: Google delays third-party cookie phase-out

As it turns out, third-party cookies are a tougher cookie than we thought. On June 24, Google announced in a blog post it intends to delay by more than a year its self-imposed deadline to deprecate third-party cookies in its Chrome browser. The timeline was originally targeted...
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Notebook, and Especially Chromebook, Demand Down as Lockdowns Ease

As lockdowns ease around the world, the notebook market is seeing a corresponding drop in demand, with Chromebooks hit especially hard. The COVID-19 pandemic sparked a surge in demand for notebooks, tablets and Chromebooks as people needed devices that could help them work from...
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Oracle Turns to AI to Automate Digital Marketing With Fusion Marketing

In an industry first, Oracle is using artificial intelligence (AI) to help automate digital marketing. AI is revolutionizing a wide range of industries, but Oracle is applying it to digital marketing campaigns, with its newly announced Fusion Marketing platform. Unlike many lead...