Twitter Blue Verified creators can now earn a share of ad revenue for Twitter Ads in their reply threads. The post Twitter Will Share Ad Revenue With Twitter Blue Verified Creators appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Microsoft’s Fabrice Canel confirmed this morning that the new Bingbot user-agent is now 100% live today. The new Bingbot will generally be used for crawling 100% of sites, unless something goes wrong and Bing has to fallback to the previous Bingbot user-agent. Bing’s confirmation. Fabrice Canel posted on Twitter, “yes, 100% today. We fallback to previous user agents where appropriate.” Yes @rustybrick % today (we fallback to previous user agents where appropriate). More information on Bing Crawler User Agents: https://t.co/n0ILIEUz0I https://t.co/49ILtJDuL0 — Fabrice Canel (@facan) February 3, 2023 He linked to the updated Bing crawler user agents page that previously […]

Search, ad network, and YouTube revenues all fell in the fourth quarter of 2022, Google reported yesterday. Overall, Google ad revenue fell 3% to $59 billion.  Search advertising revenue was the most resilient, falling 1.6% in Q4 2022 compared to Q4 2021. Google Network and YouTube revenue declined 8.6% and 7.0%, respectively.  Google Q4 2022 ad revenue by segmentQ4 2022Q4 2021ChangeSearch & other$42.6 billion$43.3 billion– 1.6%Google Network$8.5 billion$9.3 billion-8.6%YouTube$8.0 billion$8.6 billion-7.0% A poor economic climate. Google CFO Ruth Porat told CNBC the YouTube slowdown was the result of both planned and direct response advertising in a challenging economic climate. She […]

Want your local company to rank higher in Google search results? Claiming and optimizing your Google Business Profile (GBP) is one of the best things you can do to help. Managing a GBP listing from Google search is not new. People have been able to manage a Business Profile from Google search since 2017. But now, managing your profile from search is the new norm. This means you must understand how to effectively make the most of your Business Profile in the “in-search experience.” The in-search experience: How to manage your Google Business Profile in Google search To start managing your […]

Last night I reported on Search Engine Land, based on the earnings report and earnings call, that Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai has confirmed the search company will release a chat based search feature based on its own AI, LaMDA, in the coming weeks and months. Plus, there is a big new search event this Wednesday – so maybe we will hear about it there?

In this week’s recap, I covered the unconfirmed Google update that seemed to impact product review sites but maybe more on January 26th. Yandex had a huge leak…

Google reported earnings last night and their ad revenue not only slowed but was technically lower year over year. Google’s ad revenue was down about 3.6%, while total revenue was up just around 1%.

Owen Yin shared some screenshots of what he said he saw on the Microsoft Bing website. It looks like the beta version of the upcoming ChatGPT features that we are all expecting Bing to announce in the coming weeks (maybe even this coming Tuesday).

Google has updated its search help documentation around canonicalization this morning. The Google Search Relations team split in three distinct sections and updated a lot of the content to provide clearer details around how Google Search and canonicalization works.

As a reminder, since April, Bing has been slowly testing a new BingBot user agent, slowly rolling it out to more percentages of crawls over the year. It should have rolled out to 100% of all crawls last month. But now Fabrice Canel said this week that it is near 100% and an announcement is coming sometime today from Microsoft.

Microsoft Bing is working towards integrating ChatGPT with GPT 4.0 into its search interface in the coming weeks and now we may have spotted some of those testing efforts in the wild. Owen Yin posted screenshot and a GIF of Bing integrated with ChatGPT on Medium. What it looks like. Here are screenshots Owen Yin shared on Twitter and Medium of this in action, please note that Microsoft did not confirm these to be true but it does seem very possible that these are beta tests of the interface. Revised Bing Home Page with Ask Me Anything Bing ChatGPT interface […]

Before I started in digital marketing, my career involved quite a bit of foreign language translation work. Since I left that path and started working on websites, I’ve worked on many websites for international businesses in my SEO career. Some have been smaller, operating only in the U.S. and Canada, while others were global enterprises.  This combined experience has allowed me to see common areas of concern to avoid in international SEO, falling into two major categories: Translation. Localization. Translation faux pas One of my most embarrassing career moments happened when I confused the phrase “to your health” with “train […]

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