PPC accounts without scripts rely on luck, manual checks, and late alerts. Here’s why that’s a risk serious advertisers shouldn’t accept. The post Why Every Google Ads Account Needs To Run Scripts appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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This week’s Ask an SEO addresses where keyword optimization ends and keyword stuffing begins in modern search and AI-driven systems. The post Ask An SEO: What Is The Threshold Between Keyword Stuffing & Being Optimized? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Brand-agency partnerships look very different today than they did even a few years ago, and by 2026 that gap will only widen. Internal marketing teams are more sophisticated, digital channels are more specialized, and the role agencies play is no longer one-size-fits-all. As a result, the companies that get the most value from agency relationships
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A new dataset of 300K viral YouTube videos suggests that faces in thumbnails perform about the same as without them, with larger differences by niche. The post Do Faces Help YouTube Thumbnails? Here’s What The Data Says appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Generative AI is everywhere right now. It dominates conference agendas, fills LinkedIn feeds, and is reshaping how many businesses think about organic search. Brands are racing to optimize for AI Overviews, build vector embeddings, map semantic clusters, and rework content models around LLMs. What gets far less attention is a basic reality: for most websites,
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Google appears to be rolling out the Performance Max Channel Performance report at the MCC level, giving agencies and large advertisers a long-awaited view of channel-level performance across multiple accounts. What’s new: The Channel Performance report, previously limited to individual accounts, is now surfacing in some manager (MCC) accounts. Google had previously confirmed the feature
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In 2025, Google is removing reviews at unprecedented rates – and it is not accidental. Our industry analysis of 60,000 Google Business Profiles shows that deletions are being driven by a mix of: Automated moderation. Industry-wide risk factors. Increased enforcement against incentivized reviews. Local regulatory pressure. Together, these forces have significant implications for businesses and
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For the past decade, image SEO was largely a matter of technical hygiene: Compressing JPEGs to appease impatient visitors. Writing alt text for accessibility. Implementing lazy loading to keep LCP scores in the green. While these practices remain foundational to a healthy site, the rise of large, multimodal models such as ChatGPT and Gemini has
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Learn why AI works best as a support tool, not a decision-maker, and why misplaced trust in autonomy is risky. The post Ironman, Not Superman appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Discovery now happens before search demand is visible in Google. In 2026, interest forms across social feeds, communities, and AI-generated answers – long before it shows up as keyword search volume. By the time demand appears in SEO tools, the opportunity to shape how a concept is understood has already passed. This creates a problem
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