The Pokémon Company International is not pleased that President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is using its intellectual property to promote the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) raids. “We are aware of a recent video posted by the Department of Homeland Security that includes imagery and language associated with our brand,” said…
We all know Instagram is prioritizing short-form video content via Reels, so it should come as no surprise that a redesign is on the horizon. In a post on Instagram Reels (of course), Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced the app has reached three billion users, which prompted them to look at what fueled that growth.…
Google has rolled out Search Live in English in the United States, bringing real-time, camera-aware conversations to the Google app on Android and iOS. You can tap the new Live icon under the search bar, or open Google Lens and choose Live to start an interactive voice conversation that can also see what your camera…
This post was sponsored by Semji. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. For three decades, SEO has been the cornerstone of digital visibility. Keywords, backlinks, and technical optimization determined whether your brand appeared at the top of search results. However, the landscape is shifting, and it’s likely that if you’re reading…
Here’s what I’m covering this week: How to get the most out of personas in your day-to-day work across SEO, content, and the broader org. Because in the AI-search era, personas built from organic queries and prompts have value for every touchpoint: ad copy, sales scripts, support docs, product messaging. They carry the unfiltered language of…
Are you tired of the never-ending pop-ups requiring your consent to cookies every time you visit a website? Well, internet users may soon get a reprieve from cookie consent prompts. The European Commission is currently looking into relaxing a 2009 EU law that has inadvertently led to the endless cookie consent pop-ups around the web.…
For years, the SEO equation appeared to be a fixed and unchanging landscape: optimizing for Googlebot on one side, and creating content for human users on the other. This outdated binary vision is now a thing of the past. In the current business environment, a new generation of actors is causing significant changes to the…
An internal dispute within the WordPress core contributor team spilled into the open, causing major confusion among people outside the organization. The friction began with a post from more than a week ago and culminated in a remarkable outburst, exposing latent tensions within the core contributor community. Mary Hubbard Announcement Triggers Conflict The incident seemingly…
Iconic host Conan O’Brien and former Disney CEO Michael Eisner are the latest high-profile individuals to harshly criticize the decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel Live!. The benching of Kimmel’s show by ABC and parent company Disney came after his Monday monologue, which referenced the murder of far-right influencer Charlie Kirk. “The MAGA gang desperately trying…
The next SEO For Paws will be held on Sept. 25, 2025. The live stream features a stellar speaker list that includes some of the industry’s best SEO professionals and personalities, including Andrey Lipattsev, David Carrasco, Judith Lewis, and Jamie Indigo. SEO for Paws, is a live-streamed fundraiser founded by Anton Shulke, an expert at…