Search Engine Marketing

Google Ads rolled out a beta feature that lets app marketers apply Seasonality Adjustments to Smart Bidding, giving advertisers more control during short, high-impact events like flash sales or product launches. Why we care. App campaigns often see sharp conversion swings during promotions, but Smart Bidding typically learns reactively. This beta gives them the ability

Google’s documentation says advertisers can only add 5,000 keywords to a campaign-level negative keyword list. But one advertiser has reported successfully adding more – raising questions about whether this is a glitch or an unannounced update. Why we care. Negative keyword lists are critical for advertisers, helping them cut wasted spend and prevent ads from

A trial many expected to fizzle has delivered a bombshell: Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled Google illegally monopolized digital advertising, setting up a remedies phase that could force major changes to its ad tech stack. But with Google already losing ground in ad tech and the web fragmenting into retail media, walled gardens, and AI-native platforms,

For a brief moment, hiding prompt injections in HTML, CSS, or metadata felt like a throwback to the clever tricks of early black hat SEO. Invisible keywords, stealth links, and JavaScript cloaking used to be stuff many of us dealt with in the past.  But like those “rank quick schemes,” hidden prompt manipulation wasn’t built