Google has released its annual summer travel trends report alongside several AI-powered updates to its travel planning tools. The announcement reveals shifting travel preferences while introducing enhancements to Search, Maps, Lens, and Gemini functionality. New AI Search and Planning Features Google announced five major updates to its travel planning ecosystem. Expanded AI Overviews Google has…
An enterprise website migration is no small feat. We’re talking hundreds of thousands of URLs and years of SEO equity on the line. To pull it off without traffic loss, you need a solid redirect strategy. With the right approach, you can migrate an enterprise website without losing traffic or search rankings. If you stay…
How many views are your YouTube videos receiving? In order to truly know this, you have to understand how a view is counted on YouTube in the first place. On a traditional YouTube video, YouTube adds a view to your video’s view count if a viewer watches 30 seconds or more of your upload. However,…
OpenAI has rolled out a new image generation system directly integrated with GPT-4o. This system allows the AI to access its knowledge base and conversation context when creating images. This integration is said to enable more contextually relevant and accurate visual outputs. OpenAI’s announcement reads: “GPT‑4o image generation excels at accurately rendering text, precisely following…
For years, educators and parents have implored Instagram to address student bullying and harassment that often starts on the company’s platform and later shows up in the classroom. Now the platform, which is owned by Meta, is rolling out a program that allows educators to directly report safety issues like bullying directly to Instagram. The…
We regret to inform you that the hustle bros are at it again — this time, they’ve brought mouth tape and banana peels. Over the weekend, the internet was captivated (read: deeply confused) by a resurfaced video from fitness influencer Ashton Hall, whose morning routine might be the most unhinged one to grace our feeds.…
If you search social media for workout tips or healthy meal ideas, you’ll likely be bombarded with ads for supplements. “Bloom will boost your energy and make your skin glow,” “AG1 Athletic Greens will fill any gaps in your diet,” “Magnesium will improve your mood and your sleep,” “Lion’s mane will enhance your memory,” and…
Google Business Profile (GBP) suspensions have steadily risen since January, and as they increase, appeal resolution times have grown significantly – from about five days to nearly five weeks. As a Platinum Product Expert in the Google Business Profile Support Forums, I help small businesses navigate Google’s GBP platform. For many of these SMBs, Google…
This week’s question about author pages comes from Joylyn: We are working on building author pages for our content, would you mind teaching us best practices for building author archive pages with any SEO best practices. A great question and perfect for me to answer from a branding perspective. Author pages serve to build trust,…
There was once a time when memes and internet-born jokes were a novelty enjoyed by relatively few people – the kind who would describe themselves as Extremely Online. Maybe you’d take pride in quoting a niche Vine that only a few select IRL friends will have seen and spent your evenings connecting with mutuals on…