Search Engine Marketing

Google AI Mode sends traffic on 69% of transactional queries: New data

The narrative in SEO right now is simple: Google’s AI Mode doesn’t send traffic. If it becomes the default Google Search experience, your website will starve for clicks. There’s one problem, though: the studies claiming “AI doesn’t send traffic” focus almost entirely on informational queries. Yes, if someone wants to know what a basal cell […]

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Meta: Native Reels ads can lift purchase intent 5.3x

Reels continue to surge as a go-to format for entertainment, education, and discovery. But Meta’s message to advertisers is clear: success requires native creative — not repurposed assets. Think 9:16 framing, platform-first audio, and rapid storytelling built for swipes, not scrolls. Brand advertiser takeaways (per Meta’s data): Show your brand early: Branding and messaging in

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Google Daily Hub: Anatomy of an overambitious system shaping the future of search

Google’s Daily Hub is more complex than it first appears.  It’s part of the broader acceleration toward hyperpersonalization we’ve been seeing in recent months – Preferred Sources, Profile Pages with followable elements in Discover, Brand Profiles in Merchant Center – all converging toward a single goal: anticipating your needs before you even formulate a query. 

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The Search Equity Gap: Quantifying Lost Organic Market Share (And Winning It Back) via @sejournal, @billhunt

Bill Hunt outlines how leading brands close the search equity gap by linking discoverability, governance, and measurable financial impact. The post The Search Equity Gap: Quantifying Lost Organic Market Share (And Winning It Back) appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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How to plan and manage paid media budgets in an AI-driven world

Managing budgets across multiple paid media channels is one of the most important skills in a PPC marketer’s toolkit.  You’re constantly deciding how to allocate spend across channels and campaigns, how to handle big budget swings, and whether to set total or daily budgets. In an AI-driven ad platform world, campaign budgets remain one of

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How AI Overviews are impacting ad position and the fight for top spot by Adthena

Google’s AI Overviews have reshaped search almost overnight. For paid search marketers, the fight for above-the-fold visibility is no longer just about ad rank – it’s now a push to appear above the AI result itself. This shift follows the rapid surge in AI Overviews that Adthena highlighted in our previous study. That analysis showed

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