Search Engine Marketing

Google tests “Journey Aware Bidding” to optimize Search campaigns

Google is preparing a new Search bidding model called Journey Aware Bidding, designed to factor in the entire customer journey — not just the final biddable conversion — to improve prediction accuracy and campaign performance. How it works: Journey Aware Bidding learns from your primary conversion goal plus additional, non-biddable journey stages. Advertisers who fully

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Google offers a “less disruptive” fix to EU ad-tech showdown

Google submitted a compliance plan to the European Commission that proposes changes to its ad-tech operations — but rejects calls to break up its business How it works: Google is offering product-level changes — for example, giving publishers the ability to set different minimum prices for different bidders in Google Ad Manager. It’s also proposing

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Most ChatGPT links get 0% CTR – even highly visible ones

A leaked file reveals the user interactions that OpenAI is tracking, including how often ChatGPT displays publisher links and how few users actually click on them. By the numbers. ChatGPT shows links, but hardly anyone clicks on them. For one top-performing page, the OpenAI file reports: 610,775 total link impressions 4,238 total clicks 0.69% overall

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Microsoft Advertising adds AI-powered image animation to boost video creation

Microsoft Advertising is rolling out Image Animation, a new Copilot-powered feature that automatically converts static images into short, dynamic video assets — giving advertisers a faster path into video without traditional production. How it works: Copilot transforms existing static images into scroll-stopping animated video formats. The tool extends the lifespan of strong image creatives by

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Google can book your flights, hotels and dinner reservations using AI

Google is releasing some new ways to book your flights and hotels through AI Mode, plus new tools to plan your travel and find travel deals. These updates include Canvas in AI Mode for travel, flight deals rolling out globally, agentic booking for dinner reservations, flights and hotels. Some of these features are similar to

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How to build an organic Reddit strategy that drives SEO impact

Whether it’s Google signing Reddit to a deal to deepen its AI partnership, more traditional SEO results that have favored Reddit content, or Reddit’s share of ChatGPT references (down but still leading among social platforms), there are plenty of compelling reasons to prioritize Reddit in your organic strategy. That’s why it’s one of the first

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LLMs Are Changing Search & Breaking It: What SEOs Must Understand About AI’s Blind Spots via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Real-world cases reveal how failures in LLM systems spread harm and misattribute sources. Here are concrete actions SEOs can take now. The post LLMs Are Changing Search & Breaking It: What SEOs Must Understand About AI’s Blind Spots appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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