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Twitter Blue subscribers can now Tweet 4,000 characters
The new feature is available in the US only.
Cost-Per-Hour Masthead placements: YouTube’s latest offering
Large enterprise brands may find the new ads ideal, while smaller local businesses may not see much advantage.
Pinterest puts more emphasis on its shoppable video feature
The feature was released in 2021 and has 450 million users
Google reiterates guidance on AI-generated content – write content for people
Also consider evaluating the "who, how and why" of your content.
New with Google multisearch, Google Maps, and more previews of Bard
Google Lens is now used over 10 billion times per month.
Learning to trust the lack of transparency from ad platforms
Ad platforms are clear as mud in helping you look under the hood. But at some point, we have to trust them and focus on what we can control.
Bing Webmaster Guidelines updated for “conversation mode” and AI
Bing also updated the answers section to incorporate the new AI version of Bing Search.
Test driving the new Bing
I got early access to the new ChatGPT integrated Bing browser and decided to test it out.
Missing links: Where are sources in Google’s AI search results?
Forget zero-click. Now we have zero-link search results from Google. Is this an act of war on publishers?
Will the new Bing create more opportunities for advertisers? Maybe
The placement of ad results won't change right now, but there could be an opportunity in the future to incorporate them into the AI results.
The new Bing: Microsoft unveils its ChatGPT-like, AI-powered search engine
In addition to adding ChatGPT, using GPT-3.5, Bing is applying AI to improve the relevancy of its core search ranking engine.
Mastodon shows declined growth, despite concerns with Twitter
Mastodon was onboarding users fast as Elon Musk took over Twitter, but now Mastodon's monthly active users are declining.
Understanding and resolving ‘Discovered – currently not indexed’
Learn potential reasons why you're seeing this status in Google Search Console, plus ways to address related crawling and indexing issues.
Google Search podcast carousel going away on February 13
Your Google podcast manager stats will show a drop in clicks and impressions.
Microsoft Ads in 2023: Key areas to leverage, test and optimize
As Microsoft aims to compete more aggressively in the ad space, here are compelling opportunities you can seize to stay ahead of the PPC game.
Conductor acquires Searchmetrics in big enterprise SEO merger
Conductor said the deal will help it better support global organizations. Both platforms will eventually become one unified platform.
Google launches Bard, its answer to ChatGPT – here’s what it looks like
Google promises to make their experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA, available more widely in the coming weeks.
New Bingbot user-agent now fully live
After a couple years of testing, Microsoft has now stopped using the old BingBot user agent.
Google search, network, and YouTube revenue all fell in Q4 2022
Google's Q4 earnings report showed a decline in ad revenue, missing analysts' expectations, due to challenges in the digital advertising market.