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Daily updates of Eric Baudais. I am an avid advocate of data analytics, SEO, SEM, internet privacy, space exploration & history.

Oklahoma, USA
Joined August 2008
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Last year, while conducting audits on SDKs installed in mobile apps for @SafeTechLabs, a popular SDK installed in thousands of apps called “Pushwoosh” started to raise some odd questions, was it secretly Russian? Reuters has an explosive story out today: reuters.com/technology/exclu…🧵
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Folks running Google Analytics 4 through #GoogleTagManager, there's no need to go through the clumsy dL.push({ecommerce: null}) (developers.google.com/analyt…) between ecommerce pushes. Instead, build your "items" variable with this template: tagmanager.google.com/galler…
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Amazing excelformulabot.com from @bresslertweets! 🐍💥 It's a free #AI tool built with @OpenAI #GPT3 that provides the Excel formula for any problem! No ads. No cost. Only accepts donations to fund the project, so consider donating if you use it :) excelformulabot.com/
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This is interesting - it’s basically partitioned (3P) cookies, but they don’t mention Storage Access API which would relax the 3P cookie restriction for enabling certain use cases (SSO, embedded content). Next step is probably total 3P cookie block? blog.mozilla.org/en/products… – at Haarlemmermeer, Nederland
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Made some new bread for the new year.
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If a web page listing is elevated into the featured snippet position, we no longer repeat it in the first page of results. This declutters the results & helps users locate relevant information more easily. Featured snippets count as one of the ten web page listings we show....
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Big announcement from @googlewmc 1) As of now, robots.txt "noindex" officially NOT supported 2) Google will make content marked "disallow" less visible in the future (making "disallow" potentially more powerful) "A note on unsupported rules in robots.txt"webmasters.googleblog.com/20…
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📯 Mobile-first indexing will be enabled by default for all new, previously unknown to Google Search, websites starting July 1, 2019 -- thank you for making websites that work well on mobile from the start! ✨ webmasters.googleblog.com/20…
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12 reasons your SEO traffic is plateauing and how to fix it bit.ly/2W4tiTX
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Michael is a great guy and it was a great opportunity to work with him for 5 years. xitter.cf/rustybrick/status/9862…
Hey @seotulsa - the search community honors you seroundtable.com/michael-kir…
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Google admits they need guidelines on A/B testing and search - here are some recommendations from @JohnMu seroundtable.com/google-need…
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Made a prestitial ad blocking desktop bots on accident. Mobile indexing was not blocked. #Google delisted website. #Bing didn't. Leads me to think Bing already has a #mobile #Index.
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#Google showing no blue links for time, calculator and unit conversion results. #SEO seroundtable.com/amp/google-…
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Google confirms core search ranking algorithm update selnd.com/2Gov1st via @sengineland
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Check out Google showing answers in the people also ask box - nice catch @sergey_alakov seroundtable.com/google-answ…
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