“Google is not about blue links. It’s about organizing the world’s information,” according to former executive chairman and CEO of Google Eric Schmidt, speaking earlier today on CNBC. Schmidt was asked about the “blue link economy,” and all the brands and businesses that have benefited from Google Search. But Google is changing. In the new...

Meta today introduced new generative AI features to help businesses create more engaging ad content across Facebook and Instagram. The big picture. Meta’s latest update will allow advertisers to automate parts of ad creation using brand products and guidelines to inspire the creations. Why we care. Automating the ad-creation process...

Technical SEOs aren’t concerned that the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) will negatively impact their job security. That’s one insight from the State of Technical SEO Report 2024, released by digital marketing agency Aira and the Women in Tech SEO community. 64% said they were “not at all” worried. 36% said they were either “a...

Have you ever clicked on a brand’s ad and ended up on a website  you weren’t expecting? That’s ad hijacking. And it hurts advertisers and users.  Keep reading to learn how ad hijacking works, the risks it poses and how to protect your brand. What is ad hijacking? Ad hijacking is when an affiliate mimics a brand’s ads to...

The Killer Whale is back. The latest Knowledge Graph update, released in March, continued the laser focus on person entities. It appears Google is looking for person entities to which it can fully apply E-E-A-T credibility signals and aims to understand who is creating content and whether they are trustworthy. In March, the number of...

Google Search now has made it harder to find the number of search results for a search query. Instead of it being displayed under the search bar, at the top of the search results, now you need to click on the “tools” button to reveal the results count number. What it looks like. Here is a screenshot of the top of the search results page: ...