How to download and save Instagram videos

Instagram is famously the place to go to look at photos, get distracted by reels, and watch videos. If you want to see videos about food, travel, manifestation, or anything in between, Instagram is quickly becoming the place to look. But if you want to share that video beyond an Instagram DM or sending the…

How to optimize your Instagram profile for search

Trying to get your Instagram profile out there a little more? One thing you might want to think about doing is making it more search-friendly. In other words, you want to edit your profile in ways that make it more likely to appear as a suggestion under the search bar. There are a number of…

Mozilla tests Bing as the default search engine for 1% of users

“Mozilla is running an experiment on 1% of the Firefox desktop population currently, which sets the default search engine to Bing in the web browser,” said Martin Brinkmann for ghacks. Search choice is an ongoing issue. We’ve written about search choice before as it’s been a topic of conversation even beyond the search community: Google…

SEO testing for continuous improvement; Friday’s daily brief

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 I’m not going to lie. Every time…

How to save videos on Snapchat

If you’ve taken a video on Snapchat and you want to save it to your camera roll, don’t fear, it’s a super easy process. Saving a video on Snapchat is very straightforward. You can choose whether to save it to “Memories” which is Snapchat’s own camera roll and where it pulls those pesky daily flashbacks…

I can’t stop sliding into my own DMs

For more than a decade, I’ve carried on with a number of truly pathetic, one-sided DMs. I type, send links, share photos, and pour my heart out in these chats, but I’ve never once received a response. It sounds embarrassing, but don’t worry, I’m not being ghosted or anything. I’ve just been DMing myself. OK,…

Google Ads will combine Smart and standard Display campaigns

Beginning this month, Google Ads will combine standard Display campaigns and Smart Display campaigns into a single option, the company announced on Wednesday. In addition, Google Ads will also be introducing optimized targeting to Display campaigns. The new Display campaign type. “In this new Display campaign experience, you’ll have all of the reach and performance…

A guide to restricting creeps from your Instagram profile

Not to be cynical, but let’s face it: As long as Instagram and other social media platforms exist, there will always be creeps skulking around on them. Commenting weird things on your posts. Sending you intrusive messages. And just generally making you uncomfortable if only by taking up space in your digital circle. Thankfully, there…

Exclusive agenda preview: What’s next in search marketing

The only constant in the search marketing world is change: Google’s page experience update (and countless others), machine-powered technologies, growing customer expectations, new ad formats, new search behaviors, new privacy guidelines… the list goes on. As a search marketer, part of your job is to meet the latest industry changes head-on. It’s also essential to…