Target return on ad spend (ROAS) is heralded as the holy grail of PPC advertising. In contrast to click-based and conversion-based bidding, this strategy is designed to optimize financial business outcomes. While undoubtedly high on the Google Ads evolutionary scale, Target ROAS requires a rigorous setup before realizing its full potential. Advertisers who switched from…
AI-powered search engine Perplexity introduced a new product – Perplexity Pages – to select free and paid users on May 30. Content from these Pages has started appearing in Google’s AI Overviews and featured snippets. What are Perplexity Pages. Perplexity called it a way to share your knowledge with the world, via in-depth articles, detailed…
Google Ads announced what it calls “confidential matching.” Confidential matching is a “way to securely connect your first-party data for our measurement and audience solutions,” Google said. And it will be used on Google Ads in numerous areas. Here Google will use “special software and hardware known as Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), unlock new ways…
In the age of data privacy regulations and increasing consumer concerns, brands must find ways to use first-party data while protecting consumer rights. Join experts who will dive into the power of first-party data and how to use it in a privacy-first manner. The panel will explore the importance of transparency, consent, and data security…
Google is notifying some advertisers that use Google’s Local Service Ads program that soon their ads will be shown on Google Maps. It will start with the iOS version of the Google Maps app and then expand to other platforms and surfaces from there. If you do not want your Local Service Ads to show…
In the early 1600s, the officials running Durham Cathedral, in England, had serious financial problems. Soaring prices had raised expenses. Most cathedral income came from renting land to tenant farmers, who had long leases so officials could not easily raise the rent. Instead, church leaders started charging periodic fees, but these often made tenants…
Reddit has launched two first-party measurement tools, Reddit Brand Lift and Reddit Conversion Lift. These are meant to help Reddit advertisers more efficiently monitor campaign performance. Why we care. Advertisers can now access improved campaign performance data, empowering them to validate investments, optimize strategies more efficiently, and enhance their attribution models. Ultimately, this could lead to maximizing…
The search community is still unpacking and processing the huge reveal of the Google Search ranking documents that were made public yesterday morning. Everyone has been asking, why has Google not commented on the leak. Well, Google has finally commented – we spoke to a Google spokesperson about the data leak. Google told us. Google…
Crowd-sourced human quality raters have been the mainstay of the algorithmic evaluation process for search engines for decades. Still, a potential sea-change in research and production implementation could be on the horizon. Recent groundbreaking research by Bing (with some purported commercial implementation already) and a sharp uptick in closely related information retrieval research by others,…
Google’s commitment to delivering the best search results to its users has led to the development of advanced algorithms to determine the websites that dominate the SERP for any given query. At the core of these efforts is a focus on user satisfaction as a key measure of a website’s quality and relevance. By prioritizing…