Twitter is considering creating special account types for humor and satire accounts, a company representative let slip during a Wednesday press call about verification. While detailing the company’s already announced plan to create “automated” and “memorial” account types in an online presentation to reporters, Twitter product manager B Byrne offhandedly mentioned that the company wasn’t…
The blue-check wave is coming. Twitter officially launched a new public-facing application for account verification Thursday. It’s not clear who will get to apply on day one, but Twitter says it will roll out globally over the next few weeks. Who does, and does not, get verified on Twitter has been the source of frequent…
As the app market continues to grow, standing out in the app store is getting harder. New features announced by Google today aim to help app developers reach new users, understand data and insights to improve performance, and keep people coming back to the apps they love. App campaigns coming to desktop in June. Many…
Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox daily. Good morning, Marketers, and it’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). “The…
At Google I/O, John Mueller, Google Search Advocate, spoke about new video structured data that you can use to help your videos gain more visibility in Google Search. The new structured data is called Clip markup and Seek markup and they work to help Google create key moment video clips in Google Search. The announcement.…
Google is launching new features for Smart Bidding to help make automation more intuitive to search marketers’ needs and better cater to changes in each advertiser’s individual market. Top signals changes. Advertisers can now use top signals for search campaigns using Target ROAS and Maximize conversion value. “Currently, you can only view top signals for…
Search marketing is evolving faster than ever. Brands that don’t prioritize their organic presence risk getting left behind by their competition. How can businesses like yours not only survive but thrive and grow through this period of disruption? On May 12, I moderated a Search Engine Journal webinar presented by Seth Besmertnik, Co-founder and CEO,…
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Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox daily. Good morning, Marketers, and how important is content to SEO? What…
If you’re reading this, it means you haven’t muted “ADHD” from your feeds yet. For that, I’m grateful. At the same time, I kinda get why you might have. Over the past year or so, ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) seems to have exploded on social media, particularly on TikTok and Twitter. Simultaneously (almost inevitably), the growing…