Search Engine Marketing

Google Responds To Error That Causes Old Branding To Persist In SERPs via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google’s John Mueller responds to a question about search results that display outdated branding for a site that rebranded over ten years ago. The post Google Responds To Error That Causes Old Branding To Persist In SERPs appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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How AI-generated content performs in Google Search: A 16-month experiment

With AI, you can generate dozens (if not hundreds) of articles in hours and publish at scale. But publishing is the easy part. What happens after they go live is what matters. Together with the research team at SE Ranking, we ran a 16-month experiment to track how well AI-generated content performed on brand-new domains

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Google is blocking duplicate Lookalike audience lists

A quiet but important change is coming to the Google Ads API that will affect how advertisers and developers create Lookalike user lists — particularly those running Demand Gen campaigns. What’s changing. Google will begin enforcing a uniqueness check on Lookalike user lists, preventing the creation of duplicate lists that share the same seed lists,

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OpenAI’s ad platform can’t tell advertisers if their money is working

OpenAI is pushing ahead with advertising on ChatGPT, but early adopters say the platform is far from ready for serious performance marketing. The big picture. According to a report by The Information, ChatGPT’s ad offering shares almost no data with advertisers, lacks automated buying tools, and offers very limited targeting — leaving brands with little

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Why zero-click search doesn’t mean zero influence

In a recent keynote at the Industrial Marketing Summit, Rand Fishkin argued that we’re marketing in a “zero-click world.” His observation captures an important surface-level trend: fewer users are clicking through to websites. The deeper shift, however, is structural. What has changed is the way information is evaluated, repeated, and trusted across the web —

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