SEJ Today: YouTube Testing In-App Shopping In Shorts

Get the latest SEO, PPC, content marketing, and social media news delivered daily. [Read More]( [Read More]( [SEJTODAY]( Brought to you by: [Read More]( Wednesday, November 16, 2022 [Read the Article]( News, YouTube [YouTube Testing In-App Shopping In Shorts]( By Brian Frederick YouTube is adding new shopping features to its short-form video platform, according to a story first reported by the Financial Times. Adopting a model similar to that of social media rivals TikTok and Instagram, Shorts will allow users to make purchases as they scroll through their feeds. Expected to roll out sometime next year for users in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Brazil, and India, creators will receive a 45% share of ad revenue once the program launches. YouTube has said it has plans to extend the program to other countries in the future. This is the latest move from the video-sharing platform to become an ecommerce destination, following the 2020 release of shoppable ads and livestream shopping, which began in 2021. In addition to the new shopping features, YouTube plans to implement an affiliate marketing program to pay select content creators a commission on sales generated by product promotion. "It is very much an endorsement model, versus a more traditional advertising model or a paid-placement model," Michael Martin, YouTube's Shopping General Manager, told the Financial Times. "Our goal is to focus on the best monetization opportunities for creators in the market." [Keep Reading...]( Sponsored [Top Freelancers for Every Business]( By Fiverr Fiverr gives your team the flexibility to expand in-house capabilities and execute every project by connecting with freelancers for every skill set you need. [Join Now]( Facebook, News [Meta Launches Campaign To Support Small Business Shopping]( By Matt G. Southern Meta is kicking off a campaign to encourage users to support small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) during the holiday shopping season. [Read Now...]( SEO [Google Search Console: Is It A Ranking Factor?]( By Kayle Larkin While the tool doesn't give us access to every detail about what is going on behind the scenes, it certainly shares a great deal of information on how to help Google crawl and index our pages better. In addition, the performance reports show you what queries your website displays, your average search positions for those queries, and how many people clicked through to the website from Google Search. Google hasn’t explicitly addressed whether or not Search Console is a ranking factor, so we will take a look at a few features that may seem, at first glance, to be a factor. 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Think before you engage and utilize key lead magnets, do not over-target, over-communicate, or over-optimize. Personalize when you communicate with personas but find that balance between engaging and personal privacy. [Read Now...]( Content Strategy, SEO [SEO For News: Complete Top Stories Keyword Research Guide]( By Daniel Smullen News sites traditionally rank for thousands if not millions of keywords – there is no point doing keyword research for news using traditional methods when topics haven't been searched before. Instead – focus on the 5 W.s and teach journalists how to use these in headlines and on-page to maximize the S.E.O. for news websites in the top stories carousel. The beauty about this workflow is that, not only will this serve the purpose of the audience for the daily news agenda as well as subscriber intent - but it is evergreen and can be updated as well as re-linked to when another hurricane or similar heavy weather topic enters the news agenda. 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