The internet is generally a sordid latrine of unsolicited penis and debauchery, but it has outdone itself yet again. On Thursday, several respectable websites discovered that some videos embedded in old articles had turned against them, displaying hardcore pornography where innocuous clips once stood. Affected publications included The Washington Post, New York Magazine, and yes,…
If you want to listen to a new album or podcast with all your long-distance besties, and you don’t want to just hold your phone up to your speakers, try creating a Group Session on Spotify. Last year Spotify unveiled Group Sessions for Spotify Premium users. Group Sessions allow Premium users to listen to music…
Instagram recently rolled out an update that automatically limits the sensitive content that comes up on your Explore feed. Read on to learn how to turn off the sensitive content control that could limit the type of content you see in the app. This week Instagram quietly introduced sensitive content control, which automatically limits the…
Emoji masters, rejoice: Facebook Messenger is making it a bit easier to find the best emoji reaction for every conversation. On Thursday, the company announced new features for Messenger, including a search bar that will show up in the reaction picker. If you know exactly which emoji you’re searching for, the search bar will surely…
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, that was quite a reaction. On Tuesday, I…
Google has expanded restaurant reviews to enable users to include price range, the type of meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner, etc.) and whether they got take out, delivery or dined in, the company announced Wednesday. This feature is now available for mobile users on Android or iOS, and it is live for all restaurants in the…
In an attempt to make user’s experience more pleasant, Instagram rolled out the ability to hide like and view counts on all posts in their feed. This way users can focus on the content, rather than the popularity of the content. This update also gave users the option to hide the like and view counts…
While metrics like share of voice and SERP rankings provide some valuable insights, the primary goal of SEO should be to grow traffic that converts. If you aren’t doing that, then other SEO metrics simply don’t matter. On July 14, I moderated a sponsored Search Engine Journal webinar presented by Tanya Nam, Solutions Consultant at…
Getting a little lonely on TikTok? Why not try out the duet feature? “Duet” is a fun feature on TikTok that allows creators to easily film side-by-side with another video that’s already up on the app. You can use it to react to another video as it’s playing, sing songs with your friends, and sometimes,…
Google added the Math Solvers rich results option as a filter in the Google Search Console performance report search appearance options. Just like you have several dozen options to filter the performance reports, you can now do so for the practice problems/math solver structured markup. The announcement. Google announced this on Twitter saying “Following the…