Google has launched a new customer support feature on Merchant Center. The new tool enables retailers to input their customer support information and returns policy. Merchant Center is then able to share these details with shoppers without them ever having to leave the program. Why we care. Consumers often feel frustrated and dissatisfied when they…
Meta’s Threads now has its own version of hashtags. Meta calls this new feature “topic tags”, emphasizing its difference from hashtags by prioritizing community focus. Topic tags are now accessible to all users worldwide to enhance search functionality within the app. Why we care. While ads are not currently available on Threads (though they are…
Since Search Engine Land launched, we have given SEO experts a platform to share their in-depth knowledge and timely insights – with the goal of helping you solve problems, manage challenges and understand the constantly shifting SEO landscape. What follows are links to the 10 most-read, must-read Search Engine Land SEO columns of 2023 that…
Processing extensive sequences of linguistic data has been a significant hurdle, with traditional transformer models often buckling under the weight of computational and memory demands. This limitation is primarily due to the quadratic complexity of the attention mechanisms these models rely on, which scales poorly as sequence length increases. The introduction of State Space…
On Saturday morning many of us were surprised to see that Universal Analytics 3, Google Analytics (not GA4) still showed to be collecting data, after the deadline. Well, Google said it takes time for sites to be shut down and it will happen, even though many sites are still collecting data. Google posted on Twitter…
Campaign management software helps you automate the manual tasks of planning, launching and measuring the impact of your marketing campaigns. Modern marketing campaigns often have many moving parts. Campaigns may involve multiple: Internal departments (e.g., creative, media, brand, legal). External partners (e.g., agencies, media, co-marketing). Campaign management software helps keep stakeholders organized. Once the campaign…
TikTok introduced two new controls to give advertisers more choice regarding where their content appears: Category Exclusion. Vertical Sensitivity controls. Additionally, the social media platform is merging account-level controls for all brand safety and suitability solutions within TikTok Ads Manager (TTAM) to make using these new tools even easier. Why we care. Ads appearing alongside…
We have been tracking the Google core update and seeing more surges and changes with those hit by the September helpful content update. I ran a survey asking how SEOs were impacted so far by the August 2024 core update, and I shared these results this morning. Google may now use your OG title for…
Stability AI is a startup in the field of artificial intelligence best known for its Stable Diffusion image-generating AI technology. Today it has introduced a new free and open-source language model called StableLM. The model is offered in three different parameter sizes for the Alpha phase: three billion, seven billion, fifteen billion, and sixty-five billion….
Walmart is expanding its digital advertising offering in stores. The supermarket giant will soon show customers targeted ads from third parties on screens in self-checkout lanes. Brands interested in purchasing this ad space will be able to choose regions or specific stores in which to promote their campaigns. Why we care. Walmart is the biggest…