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Twitter services are currently not fully working right now, the issue started at about 11:50 am ET on March 6, 2023. The issues include clicking on links on tweets, to loading images, to logging into some Twitter services, like TweetDeck. Links broken. When you click on a link from a published tweet, you’re taken to

Matt Cutts confirms Vince, calls it a ‘minor change’ In 2009, Google’s Matt Cutts created a video to answer many questions about a recent “brand push” in the search results that SEOs and webmasters had noticed, starting in late February. Cutts confirmed the “minor change,” adding that Google’s ranking algorithm may be factoring trust, quality, PageRank, and

Sheryl Sandberg named Facebook Chief Operating Officer In 2008, Facebook announced Sheryl Sandberg as its new Chief Operating Officer. At the time, Sandberg was Google’s vice president of global online sales and operations, responsible for online sales of its advertising and publishing products. Sandberg joined Google in 2001. Sandberg would join Facebook on March 24,

Brave Search has introduced Summarizer, a new AI-powered feature with similarities to Google’s featured snippets and Perspectives SERP features. It’s also like what BingGPT is doing, generating answers to questions in near real-time. Summarizer provides concise answers (generally two or three sentences), with one or multiple citations, to user search queries. Brave’s Summarizer answers are

If you’ve used ChatGPT for any period of time for tasks like creating content for SEO, you’ve likely noticed a few things: It’s great and a major time-saver for some tasks. It’s much worse than what you already do for other tasks. To get the most out of it, you must understand how it works,

Google is updating two new policies for the ad network this month. The Google Ads Malicious or unwanted software policy will be split into 3 separate policies: Malicious software, Compromised sites, and Unwanted software.  The Financial products and services policy will be updated to clarify the scope and requirements for the advertisement of cryptocurrency related business and

The Google local pack, the map results, you see Google often display in the search results seems to have gone missing. I assume this was a bug, but no one was able to trigger a local pack to show up in Google Search for a 20-minute period. Examples. Try searching for [barber near me] and

Keyword cannibalization happens when you have two or more pages ranking for the same keyword. It is generally considered undesirable.  This article will help you decide whether you have a keyword cannibalization problem and, if so, how to solve it. Is keyword cannibalization always problematic? Before fixing keyword cannibalization, check whether it is a real

Google expands mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal In 2015, Google announced it would expand its use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal, beginning April 21. This algorithmic change would have a “significant impact” in the mobile search results, impacting all languages worldwide, Google said. However, when April came, the general consensus was that Mobilegeddon was

SEOs upset over Google dropping attribution in featured snippets In 2019, SEOs were not happy about a Google featured snippet format that didn’t immediately show the source of the content. For the Found on the web card, searchers had to click to expand the featured snippet and then scroll through various sources to see the

For weeks, marketers have been hearing about ChatGPT and its applications for content and SEO.  Prompt engineer is even now a job: Wow – Anthropic (Google’s latest $300M AI investment) is hiring a “Prompt Engineer” for $250k-$335k/yr + equity No CS degree required, just have “at least basic programming and QA skills” Wild times. pic.twitter.com/4i1sEWs5iZ

Google just announced that they’re adding four new Performance Max (PMax) features. TBD. There is no word on when exactly the new features will be rolled out. Campaign-level brand exclusions – for added control to ensure PMax doesn’t serve on branded queries advertisers may want to avoid.  Page feeds – this feature gives advertisers flexibility

Despite announcing an end to layoffs at a meeting held on November 21st, Elon Musk has continued to terminate Twitter employees, even after already forcing out approximately two-thirds of the workforce in just a few weeks. What’s happening. Musk intends to revamp Twitter’s ad targeting system to resemble that of Google’s search ads, which primarily

Despite the hype surrounding automation and machine learning, managing a PPC account requires human hands on the wheel. If anything, all these capabilities make it more complex. So set and forget, but at your own peril.  No one truly understands this more than PPC pros who manage a diverse set of accounts – large and

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has introduced a new subscription service, Meta Verified, that provides users the opportunity to acquire the highly sought-after blue verification badge on their Instagram and Facebook accounts. Users can achieve this by verifying their identity for a monthly fee of up to $15. How it works. Meta Verified is

Google removes ads from right side of search results In 2016, Google removed ads from the right side of its desktop search results (with two exceptions: Product Listing Ad boxes and Knowledge panel ads) in all languages, worldwide. Google Ads would only appear at the top and/or bottom of the page. An additional ad (so,

Yahoo stops using Google search In 2004, Yahoo stopped using Google’s web search results and rolled out its own new index and ranking system. Although Yahoo had purchased Inktomi in December 2002, Yahoo opted to build its own web search engine. Yahoo still relied on Google for image search and and News search was a

With all the talk of Google Bard and Microsoft’s Bing AI with ChatGPT over the past several days, we all keep thinking more about how search and publishing will change in the future. As we covered before, content creators are concerned about if there will be ROI in creating content that might not get clicks. [embedded content] When