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In a world where public relations has traditionally been the playground of large corporations with deep pockets, KISS PR Brand Story is flipping the script. The brainchild of Dallas-based entrepreneur Ana Khan, this innovative PR ecosystem is making waves by democratizing access to public relations services and rewarding good writers with digital dollars. The Visionary Behind KISS PR Br...

DALL-E 3 model PR16 was meant to help Bing Image Creator users generate higher quality images “twice as fast.” Instead, it was a bust. What’s happening. Microsoft is reverting the new AI model Bing Image Creator introduced, PR16, to PR13, the company confirmed. This followed a flood of complaints from users on X, Reddit, and elsewhere about a severe quality drop in terms of realism and detail. ...

In well over a decade of journalism, I’ve seen a fair amount of copied designs, but I’ve never seen anything as blatant as Bing’s attempt to hoodwink people into believing they’re using Google. Since time immemorial, people have used default apps to look for better alternatives, and to switch to those instead. Back in the day, Internet Explorer was often used to download Firefox or Chrome, befo...

The digital PR industry is profoundly transforming as AI workflows revolutionize how brands scale outreach, craft strategies, and earn media. With the ability to analyze data, generate insights, and personalize pitches faster than ever before, AI is becoming an essential tool for marketers. The challenge is clear: adapt to this new reality by leveraging AI’s potential to enhance creativity and ...

What happens when you lose a lot of links really quickly, how might that impact your Google search rankings and SEO performance? Well, John Mueller of Google was asked that question and after much back and forth, he responded, “SEOs often overestimate links.” The question came from Mehdi Oudjida who posted on Bluesky: Does a strong & sudden drop in the number of backlinks / referring domai...

Google is testing showing local ads in the local pack without review stars. Normally you’d see review stars for the sponsored results in the local pack, but in some cases, Google is testing removing the reviews from the sponsored results in the local pack. Anthony Higman spotted this and posted about it on X – I cannot replicate this but he has a couple of screenshots of this. Here are those sc...

Using the “validate fix” button within Google Search Console to communicate to Google that you fixed an issue, does not signal to Google to expedite anything on its end. It just a reporting mechanism for you to track when Google recrawls the issue and for you to see if it was “fixed” according to Google or not but it does not speed anything up. Google’s John Mueller confirmed this in a Reddit t...

Google Ads is testing allowing advertisers to pause, enable and/or remove conversion assets on the asset group level for Performance Max campaigns. Some advertisers are able to enable/pause/remove individual conversions within their Google Ads accounts. UPDATE: This is a bug, more details below… This was spotted by Thomas Eccel who posted about on LinkedIn and credited Carolin Carvalho da Silva...

Google may have gifted some or many Googlers, Google employees, custom bobble head figurines of themselves. Here is one I found on Instagram where the Googler, who is based in the Chicago office, said, “I just received this at Google for end of year.” I mean, cute idea? This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting photos related to the search ...

The first position in organic search results receives maximum visibility, which in turn represents the highest opportunity for organic traffic and conversions. At least, it used to. The search engine results page (SERP) has seen many changes in recent years and has become so populated with SERP features, new ad types, and now, AI-powered content that the top organic position can get lost and bu...