Reddit has launched two new ad formats within Conversation Placement: Carousel Ads and Product Ads. Conversation Placement sits within a Reddit conversation thread, appearing below the original post and above the first comment. The rollout of the new ad formats within this placement is intended to offer advertisers the opportunity to interact with high-value users […]
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Gemini, Google’s multimodal large language model, will be added to Search and Ads next year. It has already reduced SGE response times. Google today announced Gemini, a multimodal large language model, and confirmed the AI model will be added to Search and Ads next year. Gemini in Search. Gemini will become available in Search, Ads and […]
Google Merchant Center Next will support rules and supplemental feeds early next year. The predecessor version, Google Merchant Center, is still used by some advertisers and already supports these new features. Google Merchant Center Next (GMC Next), a simplified version of Merchant Center, was unveiled in May. Advertisers that haven’t transitioned to GMC Next and want […]
Google Merchant Center will remove the ability to select four rules-based attribution models when setting up the conversion source in 2024. The models being removed are: First-click. Linear. Time decay. Position-based. Starting in April 2024, any conversion sources still using these models will be switched to data-driven attribution. Marketers not wanting conversions that use data-driven […]
Very broad keywords can lower your Quality Score and cost you money without giving you a good return. This is why it’s important to filter out all those keyword phrases that are responsible for generating high number of impressions, but have a low click through rate. This can happen with other types of keywords too, […]
Google’s Business community manager, Jade Wang, announced in a Google discussion forum thread that they have vastly increased the number of business categories available to businesses outside of the United States. Jade said they now have added “over 1,000 new categories in the new Places dashboard” for businesses around the world. The new categories are […]
While HTTP/2 should result in efficiency improvements, there is no ranking benefit to this chage. Google announced it will soon begin crawling some sites over HTTP/2. HTTP/2 is the next generation of HTTP, the protocol the internet primarily uses for transferring data. It requires less open connections and thus can be more efficient on your server when […]
Google had alleged the Motion Picture Association of America was using Mississippi attorney general’s action as a tool of its private interests in content takedowns. Google’s effort to block what it says is the Mississippi Attorney General’s corrupt effort to censor the internet has itself been blocked by a federal appeals court. The US Fifth […]
After 69 days of it not working, it is now back up and running. Google has reenabled the request indexing tool, within the URL Inspection tool in Google Search Console. The tool was disabled on October 14, 2020 – 69 days ago – and it was expected to come back before the holiday shopping season. That came […]
Multiple indicators suggest Apple may be stepping up its search efforts. Part of Google’s mobile search success relies on the fact that it’s the default search engine for the iPhone. The company has paid billions for that privilege over the years. But there’s evidence that Apple might be building a search engine to take on Google – […]