Social media is evolving fast, with platforms like Threads and Noplace leading the charge. Check out these 14 new social networks making waves in 2024. Let’s dive right in! 1. Noplace Website: https://www.thenoplace.com/ Released: July 2024 HQ: San Francisco, California Users: No data available Funding: $19 million Description: Noplace is a new social media platform aimed at a Gen Z audience. Referred to as a “mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z”, it’s a colorful social app focused on text updates. Users can create customized profiles (change background colors, add tags) and find new friends based on common interests. […]
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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 31, 2024
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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What Is Noindex Used for? An Overview + Best Practices
A noindex directive tells search engines not to index a webpage. Learn how to implement it.
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YouTube SEO: How to Optimize Your Channel for Visibility
Want to know how to get your videos to rank on YouTube? Follow our step-by-step YouTube SEO guide.
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What Is Anchor Text? An Overview + Best Practices
Anchor text is clickable text that takes users elsewhere. Learn why link text matters and how to optimize it.
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Google “Hidden Gem Stores” Search Feature
Google seems to be testing a new search feature named “Hidden gem stores.” This shows you shopping and merchant listings from various stores and brands. This does not seem to be the Google hidden gems algorithm, but rather just a fancy title for a search feature box.
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Google Ads Launches New PMax Reporting Updates & AI Generation Tools
Google announced new Performance Max reporting updates and asset generation and image editing expansions. “We’re adding asset-level conversion reporting to Performance Max, expanding asset generation to App and Display campaigns, improving image editing and much more,” Google wrote.
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Google Ads Click-To WhatsApp Messages
Google Ads lets you set up message assets to click-to WhatsApp for some advertisers. Message assets allow you to configure an ad asset or button with your responsive search ads in Google Ads, these can lead some users to WhatsApp.
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Google Improved Autocomplete Predictions After Trump Criticism
Over the past few days, Google has come under fire over its autocomplete predictions in Google Search around former President, Donald Trump. In the wake of the issue, Google updated its autocomplete prediction system to make improvements in these cases.
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Microsoft Bing Advertising Revenue Up 19% (Back To Growth?)
Microsoft reported its fourth quarter 2024 earnings and it showed that its search and advertising revenue was up 19%. The last time it was up over 19% in a quarter was 10 quarterly earning reports ago, in Q3 2022.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 30, 2024
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 Search Console has a bug with the search appearance filters…
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10 Types of Keywords with Examples (+ How to Find Them)
In this post, you’ll learn the 10 most important types of keywords to improve your SEO. Keyword Type Examples 1. Seed keywords Books, cars, digital marketing 2. Informational keywords How to change a tire, what is SEO 3. Commercial keywords Best CRM software, compare MacBooks 4. Transactional keywords Book a hotel room, buy Nike shoes 5. Navigational keywords Youtube login, Facebook 6. Long Tail keywords Slow Wi-Fi connection on MacBook Pro 7. Short Tail keywords Off-page SEO, gardening tips 8. Primary keywords Healthy recipes 9. Secondary keywords “Healthy dinner recipes” for a page about healthy recipes 10. Geotargeted keywords Vinyl […]
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Google Search Console Performance Report Search Appearance Filter Bug (To Be Fixed)
Google Search Console has a bug with the Search Performance report, where if you want to filter by Search Appearance, it won’t show you all the options. Google is aware of the bug and it should be fixed soon.
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Google May Replace X (Twitter) With Latest Posts From
Google Search may be replacing the heading for “X (Twitter)” posts with “Latest Posts from.” This would be a step to removing more X branding from the Google Search results page.
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New Google Ads Format “For Your Consideration”
Google may be testing a new search ad format named “for your consideration.” These ads, at least in the example below, show hotel websites that you can go to to find hotels in the area. This may work for other categories of queries, outside of hotels, but this is the example I see right now.
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New Google Ads Google Merchant Center Feed Integration In AI Image Editor
Google has a new Google Ads feature within Google Merchant Center feeds in AI image editor that enables you to import product images from your Merchant Center feeds into your Google Ads account. The images will then be stored and available for use in the Google Ads Asset Library. “You can leverage product images to generate new campaign images using AI-powered image editing in Google Ads,” Google added.
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Google: Don’t Make Your M-Dot URLs The Canonical
Google’s John Mueller repeated advice from a while ago that you should not switch your m-dot URLs to be the canonical URL, even though Google is fully switched over to mobile-first indexing. He said this is just because it is how it is done, how it was done, and switching it on Google’s end would cause many large sites issues.
