Everything you need to know about Elon Musk buying Twitter

Elon Musk is buying Twitter. The CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and the Boring Company will add another corporate feather to his bejeweled cap, after the social media platform announced Monday, April 25, that it intends to accept the self-described Technoking’s approximately $44 billion purchase offer of $54.20 per share. Th reactions were decidedly mixed.…

It’s official: Elon Musk buys Twitter

There goes the neighborhood. Elon Musk officially secured an agreement to purchase Twitter Monday (April 25). News that a deal was in the final stages of discussion broke late Sunday, following weeks of public back-and-forth between the social media company and the world’s richest person. “Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) today announced that it has entered…

Bing’s Ethical Shopping hub expands to U.S., Canada

Microsoft Bing’s Ethical Shopping hub is now available in the U.S. and Canada. It launched in December, but only in the UK. In addition, the hub has a new design and the experience can be triggered when people search for relevant queries in English. What is the Ethical Shopping hub? It allows people to search…

4 technical SEO tasks that are critical to organic success

“Driving revenue and awareness from search relies on your website health — today’s success in organic search is about a lot more than just keywords and content,” said Shachar Radin Shomrat, CMO of Deepcrawl, in her presentation at The MarTech Conference. “It demands technically sound websites in today’s marketing landscape.” “Over a longer timeframe, the technical…

Google unveils a simpler way for European users to reject cookies

Google is making it easier to reject all cookies on search and YouTube in Europe. These changes will begin in France before expanding to the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland.  Visitors who are signed out or in Incognito Mode will be presented with a choice to either reject or accept all cookies via…

Ahrefs has raised $1.5 million for Ukraine

Ahrefs, which provides what it calls an “all-in-one SEO toolset,” has stepped up in a big way to help support Ukraine. After Russia invaded Ukraine, Ahrefs began a fundraising effort on Feb. 24. As of today, the company has raised more than $1.5 million. How they raised it. Ahrefs added a banner linking to a…

Spiritual hustlers are all over social media. Don’t let them scam you.

While scrolling through Instagram, TikTok or Facebook, you may notice people who call themselves guides, healers, or coaches and boast that they can provide you with instant enlightenment and spiritual guidance to enhance your “vibration.” The end result? A path to a better you.  To be honest, I’m not criticizing anyone who seeks comfort by…

Brave Search adds Discussions to search results

Privacy-focused search engine Brave Search is adding conversations from forums to its results with a new feature called Discussions. It is now available for desktop and mobile.  Why Brave Search created Discussions. Brave said the goal is to provide more conversations around topics. Whereas websites have one point of view, a site like Reddit offers…

Google Site Kit gains ideas to write about section

Google Site Kit, a tool Google makes for WordPress sites to display Search Console, Analytics PageSpeed Insights and AdSense data, has a new experimental feature that seems to pull from Google Question Hub. This was announced in a video by Google’s Mariya Moeva, at the 8:56 mark into that video. Mariya shares a screenshot of…