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Google has slowly been rolling out its Enhanced Ad Privacy functionality in Chrome. This technology allows websites to serve ads based on your browser history – unless you manually turn it off. Why we care. Some folks are worried that this tech might invade their privacy. More and more people are speaking up, saying they…
Google will soon require political ads to disclose when AI-generated images, videos and audio have been used. From November, political adverts must clearly feature a disclaimer when “synthetic content” is used to depict “realistic-looking people or events”, reports Bloomsberg. Why we care. Tackling fake news and enhancing online safety could boost people’s trust in the…
Did you know? In 2022, Black Friday online sales totaled over $9.12 billion, and Cyber Monday sales totaled over $11.3 billion. Black Friday and Cyber Monday are two of the biggest shopping days of the year in the United States. These events are a great opportunity for retailers to boost sales and generate excitement for…
As a website’s content grows, its organization and structure often suffer. Many website owners publish content without a cohesive internal linking or content organization strategy, confusing visitors and search engines. This disorganized approach hampers the user experience and makes it difficult for search engines to understand and index the content. But there’s a solution. You…
Best of the Bot showcases Search Engine Land Bot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. The language model is based on content from Search Engine Land layered on top of ChatGPT. The editors of Search Engine Land selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content. I am the first…
Increasing first-page rankings and organic traffic has always involved guesswork. Experienced marketers know that deciding what content to produce and how to publish it can lead to wasted time, energy, and money. That can stop anyone dead in their tracks. But what would it look like if guesswork was no longer a factor in SEO…
I started building links in 2010. The process then was very simple: scale your outreach to build backlinks directly to the pages we want to rank. Approaching link building with this perspective can lead one to focus too much on nurturing skills for bulk outreach or email automation. These are good skills, but the best…
SEO for adult sites is a fiercely competitive space – yet pervasive and unwanted adult-intent traffic remains a big challenge for enterprises, ecommerce sites and marketplaces. Here is why this is a problem and what can be done about it. When non-adult sites rank for adult searches It’s important to understand that “adult-intent traffic” and…
Meta is reportedly considering paid versions of Facebook and Instagram that would ban ads in Europe. The cost of the subscription and potential rollout date has not yet been confirmed by the company. However, Meta will continue to offer free versions of its apps which will still serve ads regardless, according to the New York…
Google has launched the URL Contains targeting functionality on Performance Max. The feature, which is also available on Dynamic Search ads (DSA), enables you to manually specify which URL to show your PMax ads to. Here’s a preview of how to access the new tool on the platform, as shared by Google Ads expert Thomas…
