Search Engine Marketing

Google faces UK crackdown over AI Search, advertising practices

Google is facing fresh pressure in the UK as the country’s top competition regulator moves closer to imposing stricter oversight of its search and advertising business, including new AI-driven search features. Driving the news. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) flagged concerns about fairness in search result rankings, high ad costs, and use of […]

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Microsoft adds app placement controls to Audience campaigns

Microsoft Advertising is giving marketers sharper tools to manage where their Audience Ads appear — particularly on mobile. What’s new: Advertisers can now see detailed mobile app placement data through three new columns in the Website URL report: Mobile App Name Mobile Bundle Mobile Web URL A new dashboard interface supports filtering and exclusions at

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The State Of AI In Marketing: 6 Key Findings From Marketing Leaders via @sejournal, @theshelleywalsh

Where is AI making the biggest marketing impact? Get the data and see where marketers plan to invest next in our State Of AI report. The post The State Of AI In Marketing: 6 Key Findings From Marketing Leaders appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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How to use GA4 predictive metrics for smarter PPC targeting

Understanding Google Analytics 4 (GA4) isn’t optional – it’s essential for running high-performing PPC campaigns. The interface? Confusing. The modeling? New. The terminology? Often unclear. But predictive analytics? That’s where things start to make a bit more sense. This article is going to walk you through: What each predictive metric means (as simply as possible).

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When clients ask “Did it work?”—here’s your answer by Digital Marketing Depot

Clients today aren’t just asking for impressions or click-through rates. They’re asking for something deeper: “Did our campaign shift perception? Are we building future demand?” In a cross-platform world, answering that takes more than basic attribution. It takes brand lift—measured at scale, with rigor, and in terms clients recognize as strategic value. The Cross-Platform Measurement

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How to build a traffic-first strategy in a fragmented search world

Each day, marketing leaders everywhere face a similar problem. Website traffic is dropping, the C-Suite wants answers, and teams are siloed and scrambling. Google Search is now a complex, AI-infused ecosystem, and marketers want to know how to operate in this unfamiliar territory.  Today, it’s possible to rank No. 1 and still be invisible.   As

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How to make your AI-generated content sound more human

Generative AI tools like ChatGPT can create content, but it doesn’t always sound natural.  Without the right guidance, the content can come across as dull or robotic. Fortunately, there are techniques for making AI-written text more human-like, engaging, and fun to read. This article explores ways to get more life-like, conversational content from AI.  Specifically,

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