Google claims the U.S. Government is trying to penalize it for being successful in a post-trial brief submitted to a DC Judge. Google accused the U.S. government of wanting to punish it for being more successful than its competitors. The company made the comments in an unsealed post-trial brief submitted to a DC federal judge […]
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Actionable training, live Q&A, free on-demand access, a personalized certificate of completion… it’s all yours at the SMX Master Classes. In an industry that’s constantly evolving… Machine learning in Google Ads – friend or foe? How can you leverage generative AI right now to power success? Email deliverability is on the verge of a shake-up… […]
Advertisers must switch to a new bid strategy before commissions (per stay) and commissions (per conversion) are phased out. Google Ads will phase out commissions (per stay) and commissions (per conversion) bid strategies for hotel ads in October. Instead, the platform is introducing target Return on Ads Spend (tROAS) for hotel campaigns, along with an […]
Learn why Google doesn’t use author bios and other assumed E-E-A-T elements for search ranking and what they may actually use. For the longest time, I’ve avoided writing or talking about E-E-A-T. Having been a Google quality rater myself (almost a decade ago now), I quickly realized what E-E-A-T was: human language to describe the ultimate […]
Discover how this bid strategy can optimize your Google Ads campaigns for the most valuable actions and overall profitability. More advertisers are exploring the potential of value-based bidding (VBB). But what exactly is this method and why does it matter? This article discusses what you need to know about value-based bidding, how it differs from […]
In some regions outside of the US, some are seeing local packs in the Google search results but in many regions they are not. Google Search currently has a bug when the local pack, the local search results box, is not being served in its desktop of mobile search results. This is affecting a lot […]
Google’s Search Generative Experience (SGE) has the potential to revolutionize PPC, presenting both unprecedented opportunities and challenges for marketers. A roundtable of experts examined how our industry might change at SMX Next. Brad Geddes, co-founder of Adalysis, spoke with Jyll Saskin Gales, marketing Consultant at Jyll.ca, Greg Kohler, senior digital marketing manager at ServiceMaster Brands, and Aaron Levy, VP […]
Google was accused of serving ads on inappropriate websites last month in a report published by Adalytics. Google is actively looking into improving brand safety controls for Performance Max (PMax) following a damning report by Adalytics. The research, which was published last month, accused the search engine of serving ads on inappropriate non-Google websites through the […]
The future is AI-driven, trust-centric dialogue between brands and consumers The generative AI race is well underway, and we’re already seeing applications in advertising and marketing for creative ideation and development. This includes one of the key pillars of digital advertising—search. As consumers, we have grown accustomed to being overwhelmed with ads and information in search engines, […]
An experiment by technical SEO expert Kristina Azarenko reveals what happens you disable Googlebot from crawling a website using robots.txt. Ever wondered what would happen if you prevented Google from crawling your website for a few weeks? Technical SEO expert Kristina Azarenko has published the results of such an experiment. Six surprising things that happened. What […]