Google is encouraging merchants to enable “conversion annotations” – social proof badges that highlight a product’s purchase popularity when displayed in Google Shopping ads. What’s new. Conversion annotations like “best selling” or “1K shopped here recently” provide visual cues about a product’s sales performance directly in the ad unit. Why we care. Conversion annotations incentivize…
The performance of large language models (LLMs) has been impressive across many different natural language processing (NLP) applications. In recent studies, LLMs have been proposed as task-specific training data generators to reduce the necessity of task-specific data and annotations, especially for text classification. Though these efforts have demonstrated the usefulness of LLMs as data producers,…
Google Ads announced that within Performance Max the search ad company is rolling out asset generation globally in English with more languages to come. Plus, image editing will finish rolling out in the U.S. in March, with global English expansion following shortly after. This means that Google is adjusting its Ad Strength formula to weigh…
Google has added a set of new filters and a website only report in the Enhanced Conversion Coverage data page/report. This can be found in the Google Ads console under the Enhanced Conversion Coverage Data page. Thomas Eccel spotted this and posted about it on X, he wrote, “Google Ads updated their Enhanced Conversion Coverage…
Google is accused of illegally using copyrighted content and stealing the personal information of millions of Americans to train its AI products. The allegations were made in a proposed class action lawsuit in San Francisco on Tuesday by eight individuals, who say they are seeking to represent the millions of internet users affected. If Google…
The end is near for Google Discovery ads. You can now sign up for access to Google Ads’ Demand Gen, the new campaign type announced at Google Marketing Live in May. Once you’re in the beta, your Discovery campaigns will be automatically upgraded to Demand Gen. All Discovery campaigns should be “upgraded” to Demand Gen…
This morning Bing Chat started to work across non-Edge browsers. That means, if you are logged into Bing, you can use Bing Chat on Chrome and Firefox and likely other browsers. We knew this was coming soon and it seems to have started to roll out Friday morning at around 5am ET. Try it in…
Bing is testing a voting feature in the Bing Search results. You can vote up or vote down specific search results in the search results page. It even shows you the percentage of votes for those who voted it up versus voted it down. Shameem Adhikarath spotted this, I cannot replicate it, but he posted…
TikTok is testing displaying links to Google search results from its own internal search results page. Radu Oncescu spotted this and posted a screenshot of this on X, which we embedded below. What it looks like. TikTok added to its search pages a small link with a Google logo to its search results page. TikTok…
ChatGPT has many applications for content and SEO. This article will discuss what to keep in mind when creating ChatGPT prompts for SEO and share an extensive list of SEO-focused prompts to use in your day-to-day work. ChatGPT prompt engineering strategy Before getting into specifics, it is helpful to have a general approach to ChatGPT…