Facebook says privacy settings for 14M users were switched to public due to bug
From May 18 to May 22, 14M users had the audience setting for new status updates changed to public because of a bug, according to Facebook. If you’re keeping a list of Facebook apologies for 2018, you can now add “apologizes for accidentally setting 14 million users privacy status to public without their knowledge” to […]
Instagram’s new shopping bag icon adds e-commerce element to advertisers’ Stories
Tapping the shopping bag icon will display more details on the products featured on Instagram Stories from brands. Instagram is giving a select number of e-commerce brands a new feature to help with their e-commerce efforts on the platform. Starting today, certain advertisers can add a shopping bag icon to their Instagram Stories that will […]
A Big Difference Between Copywriting & SEO Copywriting
I was listening to the radio on the way to work yesterday, and they were talking about the “Big Unit”, Randy Johnson. I am not a Yankee fan, I am from the other side, being a Met fan. However, they said something that did interest me. The radio guy said he was reading some of […]
SEMPO Thread at Cre8asite Gets Interesting
I reported this thread earlier but today the thread got real interesting. Skip to page 3. Ammon Johns said midway through the page “we’ve yet to see a single representative or even member of SEMPO answer any of those questions.” I decided to throw Dana Todd an email to ask someone at SEMPO to join […]
Instagram Wants to Improve Your Mental Health, Creates New Wellbeing Team
Instagram is taking steps to help improve their users’ mental health with the creation of its new Wellbeing Team. Millions of people around the world use Instagram to visually share and document their lives. However, the unrealistic portrayal of how other people live has been proven to negatively affect how some users view their own […]
Google Search Algorithm Update Tweaks Continue Into January
As you know, the Google updates towards the end of December were pretty aggressive and Google even somewhat confirmed some of them. These include what we called the Maccabees updates that seemed to target keyword permutations as well as Fred like stuff and even hit some celebrity sites. We also saw a PBN penalty roll […]
Bing Ads: New Name For Microsoft adCenter
Microsoft has rebranded their search ad service from Microsoft adCenter to Bing Ads. Part of that, they are naming the Yahoo / Microsoft Search Alliance as the “Yahoo! Bing Network.” The new quick way to login to your adCenter, I mean, Bing Ads console is to go to bingads.com. Microsoft said it is not just […]