Weak advertising demand and competition from TikTok and other rivals yielded lower fourth quarter revenue and profit for Meta, Facebook’s parent company. Ad revenue was down 4% to $31.3 billion at Meta’s advertising-supported properties, including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. Advertising revenue was 97% of Meta’s total revenue in the quarter. Ad revenue in
Read MoreDozens of Google’s raters, seeking raises and access to benefits, rallied at the Googleplex in Mountain View yesterday, with the goal of putting an end to “poverty wages.” Why we care. Google has said it uses as many as 16,000 raters – and about 5,000 are based in the U.S. As a group, Google’s human
Read MoreMicrosoft has revised its multi-channel strategy, which will be accessible for all advertisers on February 21st. Additionally, the audience ad bid modifier will no longer be visible in your campaign settings. Microsoft says “Instead of using positive or negative bid modifiers to manually adjust participation in the audience network, all you need to do is
Read MoreI’ll just come right out and say it… SEO should be a product because it is an acquisition channel for organic traffic and revenue. SEO as a product largely means the business: Understands it operates in a digital-first world. Makes an effort for its digital properties (website, app, etc.) to be SEO-friendly. This way, when
Read MoreBacklinks have long been considered a crucial factor in determining a website’s ranking on search. Historically seen as a vote of confidence, plenty of backlinks pointing to a website indicated that it is a trusted and authoritative source of information. And so, the more backlinks a site had, the higher it was likely to rank
Read MoreRevamped Google Partners program finally launches In 2022, the changes to Partners program requirements, originally announced in 2020, finally took effect. Those changes were supposed to happen in June 2020 but were first postponed until 2021 and then delayed a second time due to the upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic and shelter-in-place orders. Agencies were
Read MoreAs reported earlier, we are now learning more about Microsoft’s plans to incorporate ChatGPT into Bing Search. Reed Albergotti said that it is not just ChatGPT from OpenAI that is being added to Bing Search but a faster and richer version named GPT-4. The report. The report says, “The most interesting improvement in the latest
Read MoreOpenAI announced that its highly-anticipated paid version of ChatGPT has launched. Called ChatGPT Plus, it will only be available for people who live in the U.S. Despite earlier pricing rumors reported in the media, ChatGPT Plus won’t cost $42 a month. It will cost $20 per month. People who have been on the waitlist for
Read MoreHow do you make sure your SEO team is working on activities that will make the most significant impact on your goals? Have you ever set goals only to realize a month or two later that no one has been keeping track of progress? Have you ever reached the end of a year and felt
Read MoreGoogle has accidentally removed legit, policy-abiding reviews submitted by Local Guides from Google Maps. Google acknowledged the issue and said it is working on reinstating those reviews over the next few weeks. What happened. According to Google’s Local Guides Connect blog, Google said they are “constantly improving our moderation system to keep policy-violating content off
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