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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]