LinkedIn is giving users more incentives to contribute to Collaborative Articles, promising greater visibility in search, feeds and notifications, the company announced today. More visibility. LinkedIn plans to include more Collaborative Articles when people search for specific problems or topics. So if you’ve contributed to a Collaborative Article, this increases the odds your answer could…
Google quietly expanded availability of Audience Signal Targeting for App campaigns, a feature previously only available for Performance Max campaigns. While Google hasn’t made an official announcement, advertisers are reporting the ability to use Audience Signal Targeting in their App campaigns. Why it matters. This update gives advertisers more control over their App campaign targeting,…
OpenAI today announced SearchGPT, its long-awaited search product. SearchGPT is a “temporary prototype” and limited to just 10,000 users and publishers at launch. OpenAI plans to integrate the “best” parts of the new search features directly within ChatGPT in the future. How SearchGPT works. SearchGPT responds to queries using its AI models plus information pulled…
Google seems to be rolling out a new Google Lens feature that lets you record with your camera and also speak with your voice on top of that video. Then Google Lens will match the video or image with your spoken text to give you a set of search results or an AI Overview. This…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google Ads launched new PMax reporting and AI generation tools. Google responded to the claims that it was censoring President Trump. Google Ads has click-to WhatsApp message…
Billions of users log into Meta technologies like Facebook and Instagram every day – an advertiser’s dream. But reaching these users with ads that are relevant to what they’re looking for is a challenge if you don’t have the right data, particularly in the era of third-party cookie deprecation and data privacy restrictions. To reach…
Google has updated its favicon search developer documentation to remove the Favicon user agent section and also to clarify that you need to allow Googlebot and Googlebot-Image user agents for Google to index your favicons and display them in Google Search. What Google said. “Clarified in the favicon documentation that both the favicon file and…
Microsoft today announced Deep Search – a new, optional generative AI feature meant to help searchers with complex questions that don’t have simple answers. How it works. Deep Search is built on top of Bing’s web index and ranking system. It then uses GPT-4 to discern all the possible intents and variations behind the query…
Content pillars are foundational to your brand’s content strategy. They are the central themes that drive your messaging and shape your identity across platforms. Developing strong content pillars is crucial for every brand that wants to attract and engage followers online. They help you build connections with your target audience by creating informative, inspiring and…
Google announced that it will stop serving the Google URL Shortener, so any URL that was set up to redirect using goo.gl, which Google stopped supporting adding new ones back in 2019, will also stop serving. Starting August 23, 2024, goo.gl links will start displaying an interstitial page for a percentage of existing links to…