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Google has released version 2.5 of the Google Ads Editor, this comes 17 weeks since version 2.4 was released in Jul 2023. The new version gains campaign level broad match, search themes, DSAs to PMax and much more. PPCGreg spotted this earlier but the release notes didn’t go live until yesterday afternoon: tip: I recommend…

As a reminder, the Google helpful content system/update is a sitewide algorithm. It looks at your site as a whole when applying its ranking system to the Google Search results. So changing a character on one page of your site, won’t do anything to help you recover from this Google ranking algorithm. Danny Sullivan, Google’s…

Google has big AdSense news, which it says won’t result in a change to how much publishers get paid. Google said it is changing its AdSense revenue-share structure and will also pay per impression and not per click. But again, Google says this won’t change how publishers get paid. Google wrote, “Based on our tests,…

Only two weeks after the October 2023 core update finished rolling out, we have a new core update rolling out – the November 2023 core update. This is a different update to the core update, Google said, “We have different systems that are considered core to our ranking process; this month’s core update involves an…

This was a fun week, being that you all ruined the internet. First up Google shocked us with a new core update, the November core update. The Google October core update had a bug that impacted some sites’ performance in Google Discover. A new Google reviews update is coming next week; it will be the…

The struggle is real, and it’s here to stay: browser privacy is making an impact on your marketing campaigns. Organizations are facing an increasingly challenging landscape to track users. The combination of regulation, tracking prevention technology, and user privacy results in businesses making the wrong decisions from inaccurate and incomplete marketing attribution and customer behavior…

If you are anything like me, once you start diving into a project, it can be difficult to stop. Doing SEO feels like dealing with a never-ending set of tasks. Setting boundaries is essential for managing expectations and caring for your well-being. When I tell people what I do, they often envisage me tapping away…

Generative AI has emerged as a driving force in the marketing industry. We have already seen many use cases, from content creation to campaign optimization. It is also poised to revolutionize how we gain deeper insights into our marketing data. In this article, we’ll dive deep into how generative AI is reshaping marketing analytics and…

The Guardian has accused Microsoft of damaging its brand by adding an offensive AI-generated poll to one of its articles. In a story reporting on the death of 21-year-old Lilie James, whose body was found with serious head injuries in Australia, the tech giant’s AI asked readers to vote on the cause of her passing,…

The U.S. Department of Justice has released several new trial exhibits – including internal Google presentations, documents and emails related to ranking. Here are seven that specifically discuss elements of Google Search ranking: 1. Life of a Click (user-interaction) This is a heavily redacted PowerPoint presentation put together by Google’s Eric Lehman – and like…