Google is changing how Local Inventory Ads are managed in Standard Shopping campaigns, automatically enabling them by default and replacing an existing campaign setting with a new inventory filter. What’s happening. Google has notified advertisers that, beginning Aug. 31, Local Inventory Ads (LIAs) will be enabled by default in Shopping campaigns linked to Merchant Center […]
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Google is starting to roll out connected apps in AI Mode, so you can send tasks to services like Canva from a search. The post Google Starts Rolling Out Connected Apps In AI Mode Search appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google is starting to roll out connected app integrations in AI Mode in Search, letting U.S. users link services such as Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music to take action on AI-generated responses. Apps in AI Mode. Users can securely connect supported services and interact with them from AI Mode, according to Google. The integrations are
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Ask 10 local business owners how they’re doing in AI search, and nine will point to their Google Business Profile. That’s the wrong place to look. ChatGPT recommended only 1.2% of the nearly 350,000 business locations analyzed in SOCi’s 2026 Local Visibility Index. Compare that to the 35.9% appearance rate those same brands get in
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Many B2B advertisers still evaluate PPC performance with one simple question: “How many leads did we generate?” But in long B2B sales cycles, that question can be misleading. Qualified pipeline and revenue tell a much more complete story. Lead volume is easy to measure, but it doesn’t always reflect business value. This is especially true
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The fingerprint you pressed into Google’s ranking systems now feeds the AI answers on top of them. Here’s where it persists and goes dark. The post Do The Answer Engines Keep Your Fingerprint, Or Do They Start Fresh Every Time? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Every page you publish is vulnerable to traffic decay. The question is whether you catch it when it’s down 15% or 80%, and whether you fix the right thing when you do. Most teams catch it late, then reach for the same tool every time: refresh it. Update the date, add a few hundred words,
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I wanted Google’s Indexing API to be the cheat code for job boards. The equation was simply: New job goes live? Push it to Google. Job gets updated? Notify Google. Job expires? Tell Google to drop it. For any job board owner, that sounds incredible, especially considering job postings are not evergreen assets. They are
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AI SEO that prioritizes content that is specific may be a key to getting cited by AI search engines. The post AI SEO: Writing That’s Specific May Get Cited More appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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The new Search Console social tracking hides AI click loss and turns your verified profiles into free training data for Google’s models. The post Google Is Using Social Media Signals To Mask AI Search Click Loss appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
