Your social platforms might have less fodder for Saturday Night Live sketches after removing the remaining Trump family-members-turned-political-leaders from your follows, but the new administration includes a fresh cast of characters. President Joe Biden has a host of grandkids, and two dogs. Vice President Kamala Harris is married to the country’s first Second Gentleman, who…
Italian regulators turned their eyes toward TikTok this week following the tragic death of a 10-year-old girl. On Thursday, the Italian Data Protection Authority (GPDP) ordered makers of the popular social media app to stop processing the data of any user within the country “whose age could not be established with full certainty.” This move…
In November, contextual links began appearing in Google’s featured snippets. Although it’s still in the testing phase, the potential for more links to appear in this high-visibility search result feature has SEOs concerned about what that may mean for their click-through rates, the safety of their brands as well as how they might optimize for…
Google is rolling out a new design for its mobile search results. The updated interface aims to make the search interface easier to read for searchers while providing a cleaner and more modern experience, the company said. The new look has begun rolling out and will continue to roll out over the coming days. What…
[embedded content] In an interview with the Best SEO Initiative Award winners, Search Engine Land Editor George Nguyen deep-dives into the best SEO strategies and tactics for your campaigns. Here are the category winners: Lindsay Neilson from NP Digital worked with PROS to overcome the challenges of a conceptual product and finding search volume in…
In his inaugural address, President Joe Biden promised to be honest with the American people. “There is truth and there are lies, lies told for power and for profit,” he said, later adding, “I give you my word, I will always level with you.” After four years of lies big and small, restoring trust is…
After what feels like 425 tearful, anxiety-ridden, brain worms-filled decades (but has somehow only been four years?) the big day has finally arrived: You can now free your social media timelines from all traces of Donald Trump and his family. Come noon on Jan. 20, Joe Biden’s inauguration day, Trump will no longer be president…
DuckDuckGo served 102,251,307 search queries on January 11, breaking past the 100 million query milestone for the first time, according to the search engine’s traffic page. Daily average search queries served by DuckDuckGo. The letters (A-F) refer to privacy-related blog and news articles published on those dates. Source: DuckDuckGo. DuckDuckGo remains a very niche competitor.…
If your New Year’s resolutions include earning more organic traffic, executing stronger PPC campaigns, and generating greater profits, you can’t afford to miss the actionable tactics at SMX Report — online February 23. At just $99, your All Access pass packs a ton of value, including an all-new training experience covering everything you need to…
WhatsApp has caused quite a bit of commotion with a planned update to its privacy policy, which spooked users as it added more detail on how Facebook and third party businesses can use and interact with user data on the platform. Now, amid user backlash, the company has announced the new policy will go into…