Search Engine Marketing

Google brings Gemini Omni video creation to Google Ads

Google is bringing Gemini Omni into Asset Studio in Google Ads, allowing advertisers to turn creative briefs, brand guidelines and existing assets into multi-format videos that can be deployed directly into campaigns. The new capabilities are aimed at reducing the work required to produce creative variations for Demand Gen, Performance Max and other Google and […]

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Google expands direct booking for Local Services Ads

Google is significantly expanding booking capabilities for Local Services Ads (LSAs), increasing support from around 20 Reserve with Google booking partners to more than 500. The expansion means substantially more LSA advertisers can let potential customers book directly from their ads on Google Search and Maps, according to Google Ads Liaison Ginny Marvin. What’s new.

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Google Local Services Ads will charge for some missed calls starting Oct. 1

Google is updating its Local Services Ads lead charge policy, changing how and when advertisers are charged for calls generated by their ads. Starting Oct. 1st, certain missed calls and subsequent calls that meet Google’s valid lead criteria will become chargeable. What’s changing. Missed calls during business hours will now be charged as valid leads

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What 1.8 million Google Business Profiles tell us about local SEO success

If you want to improve your local rankings, start by getting specific with your Google Business Profile category, choosing relevant additional categories, and fully completing your Profile. Whitespark studied 1.8 million Google Business Profiles across 4,209 categories to learn more about the impact of Google Business Profile categories on rankings, identify notable trends among businesses

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