Meta Verified is being rolled out to businesses on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp. Mark Zuckerberg announced that testing will begin in select counties on Facebook and Instagram in the coming weeks, with WhatsApp trials planned at a later date. What is Meta Verified? Meta Verified is a monthly subscription package designed to help creators and…
When I audit the Google Ads programs of new and prospective clients, I still find some without a YouTube advertising component. This is surprising, given YouTube’s continued growth in popularity. We can look at YouTube ad revenue to measure the platform’s dominance. In 2023, YouTube’s global advertising revenues rose to $31.51 billion, up by almost…
Google is actively working on fixing the problem it was with showing too much spam for obituary-related queries. Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, said “it’s something we’re actively looking at ways to improve.” This was in response to a complaint by Matthew Brown who wrote, “Searching for obituary is both depressing and also a comprehensive…
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’s site reputation abuse policy is still not algorithmically enforced. Google Search can now index EPUB formats. There is a neat place to follow all the embarrassing…
While the concept of entities for SEO has been around since 2012, it hasn’t been a widely adopted in PPC. Entities are essentially unique people, places, things or concepts that provide context and relationships for keywords. As AI becomes more prevalent in digital marketing, incorporating an entity-based approach into your PPC campaigns is a way…
Universal Analytics, a platform beloved (or at least tolerated) by marketers, died today (July 1) after 11 years. Although the digital marketing industry had been warned that Google was preparing to turn off its life support, the news has still somehow come as a shock to many. Heartbroken marketers across the world have been flooding…
With the rise of AI content to help make programmatically generated content more SEO-friendly, many publishers and businesses are considering investing in programmatic SEO. In this article, I’ll explore specific programmatic SEO examples and how they rank in search. Types of programmatic SEO If you’ve researched the topic, you’ve likely come across some of the…
Best of the Bot showcases Search Engine Land Bot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. The language model is based on content from Search Engine Land layered on top of ChatGPT. The editors of Search Engine Land selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content. I am the first generative AI…
AI search engine Perplexity is expected to launch ads in Q4 in “15 key categories.” Ad categories. Here are some categories where Perplexity ads will appear: Arts and entertainment. Finance. Food and beverage Health. Technology. Video ads. Advertisers will be able to run video ads on mobile (at the top of related questions) or desktop…
In a significant step towards enhancing accessibility and comprehension of complex charts and graphs, a team of researchers from MIT has created a groundbreaking dataset called VisText. The dataset aims to revolutionize automatic chart captioning systems by training machine-learning models to generate precise and semantically rich captions that accurately describe data trends and intricate patterns….
