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AdSense now inserts Gemini-written articles into publisher pages. Featured image for SEO

Industry / 7 hr ago

AdSense now inserts Gemini-written articles into publisher pages

By Alessandro Benigni

Fabrice Canel retires from Bing, leaving IndexNow without a named owner. Featured image for SEO

Industry / 7 hr ago

Fabrice Canel retires from Bing, leaving IndexNow without a named owner

By Alessandro Benigni

Fake DMCA claims are deindexing real publisher content on Google. Featured image for SEO

Industry / 7 hr ago

Fake DMCA claims are deindexing real publisher content on Google

By Alessandro Benigni

Fake Perplexity Extension Intercepted Searches Before Google Removed It. Featured image for SEO

Industry / yesterday

Fake Perplexity Extension Intercepted Searches Before Google Removed It

By Alessandro Benigni

Google Shopping video ads go live as video_link enters serve phase. Featured image for SEO

Industry / yesterday

Google Shopping video ads go live as video_link enters serve phase

By Alessandro Benigni

Google Adds PMax Asset-Group Product Reports and Audience Spend Data. Featured image for SEO

Industry / 2 days ago

Google Adds PMax Asset-Group Product Reports and Audience Spend Data

By Alessandro Benigni

Bruce Clay, Who Named SEO and Invented Content Siloing, Has Died. Featured image for SEO

Industry / 2 days ago

Bruce Clay, Who Named SEO and Invented Content Siloing, Has Died

By Alessandro Benigni

Google Formalizes Subscription Linking Rules for News Publishers. Featured image for SEO

Industry / 3 days ago

Google Formalizes Subscription Linking Rules for News Publishers

By Alessandro Benigni

Google adds unconstrained value bidding to Standard Shopping. Featured image for SEO

Industry / 3 days ago

Google adds unconstrained value bidding to Standard Shopping

By Alessandro Benigni

Google Ads API v24.2 ships MPA security gates and EU AI Act disclosure fields. Featured image for SEO

Industry / 6 days ago

Google Ads API v24.2 ships MPA security gates and EU AI Act disclosure fields

By Alessandro Benigni

Google Ends API Creation of New Smart Campaigns, Steers to Performance Max. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 25

Google Ends API Creation of New Smart Campaigns, Steers to Performance Max

By Alessandro Benigni

Google Tests Relevance Labels on Search Ads, Surfacing Its Own Quality Scores. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 25

Google Tests Relevance Labels on Search Ads, Surfacing Its Own Quality Scores

By Alessandro Benigni

Google Sets July 23 Deadline for EU Financial Ads Verification. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 24

Google Sets July 23 Deadline for EU Financial Ads Verification

By Alessandro Benigni

Shopify puts budget-allocation on autopilot, shrinking merchant control. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 24

Shopify puts budget-allocation on autopilot, shrinking merchant control

By Alessandro Benigni

Google Ads tightens target-based bidding for budget-limited campaigns. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 23

Google Ads tightens target-based bidding for budget-limited campaigns

By Alessandro Benigni

Google Ads warns against pinning duplicate RSA text to the same slot. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 23

Google Ads warns against pinning duplicate RSA text to the same slot

By Alessandro Benigni

Bing Tests In-SERP Color Swatches and a Cleaner News Box. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 22

Bing Tests In-SERP Color Swatches and a Cleaner News Box

By Alessandro Benigni

Google Ads beta attaches CRM data to existing conversion actions. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 19

Google Ads beta attaches CRM data to existing conversion actions

By Alessandro Benigni

Google Embeds a Conversational AI Agent Inside Ad Manager for Publishers. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 19

Google Embeds a Conversational AI Agent Inside Ad Manager for Publishers

By Alessandro Benigni

Google Ads will auto-classify your customer lists in August. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 18

Google Ads will auto-classify your customer lists in August

By Alessandro Benigni

UK regulator orders Google to explain organic rankings within six months. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 18

UK regulator orders Google to explain organic rankings within six months

By Alessandro Benigni

Google extends Smart Bidding Exploration to PMax, adds Promotion Mode. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 16

Google extends Smart Bidding Exploration to PMax, adds Promotion Mode

By Alessandro Benigni

Google Pushes DSA-to-AI Max Automigration to February 2027. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 15

Google Pushes DSA-to-AI Max Automigration to February 2027

By Alessandro Benigni

Instagram rolls out topic controls to the main Feed. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 12

Instagram rolls out topic controls to the main Feed

By Alessandro Benigni

Google raises Merchant Center image floor to 500x500 pixels. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 11

Google raises Merchant Center image floor to 500x500 pixels

By Alessandro Benigni

Google Ads auto-links YouTube channels from June 10. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 11

Google Ads auto-links YouTube channels from June 10

By Alessandro Benigni

Google Ads Adds Experiment Power Score to Flag Weak A/B Tests. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 10

Google Ads Adds Experiment Power Score to Flag Weak A/B Tests

By Alessandro Benigni

Google Tests Direct-to-Retailer Links in Shopping Results. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 10

Google Tests Direct-to-Retailer Links in Shopping Results

By Alessandro Benigni

Google clarifies Demand Gen rules for sensitive ad categories. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 9

Google clarifies Demand Gen rules for sensitive ad categories

By Alessandro Benigni

Google Tests Insights Analytics for Search Profiles. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 9

Google Tests Insights Analytics for Search Profiles

By Alessandro Benigni

Microsoft Advertising Will Auto-Apply Format-Specific UTM Tags on Sept 2. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 8

Microsoft Advertising Will Auto-Apply Format-Specific UTM Tags on Sept 2

By Alessandro Benigni

Google Launches Claimable Search Profiles for Publishers and Creators. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 8

Google Launches Claimable Search Profiles for Publishers and Creators

By Alessandro Benigni

Industry / Jun 5

Phishing ads on Google target Google Business Profile logins

By Alessandro Benigni

AdSense adds opt-in full IP sharing for programmatic bid requests. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 4

AdSense adds opt-in full IP sharing for programmatic bid requests

By Alessandro Benigni

Google Ads ToS update hands automation more authority over your campaigns. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 3

Google Ads ToS update hands automation more authority over your campaigns

By Alessandro Benigni

Google Tests Branded Search Controls Inside AI Max Campaigns. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 2

Google Tests Branded Search Controls Inside AI Max Campaigns

By Alessandro Benigni

Google Adds Real-Time Policy Checks to Responsive Search Ads. Featured image for SEO

Industry / Jun 1

Google Adds Real-Time Policy Checks to Responsive Search Ads

By Alessandro Benigni

ChatGPT ads gain conversion tracking as OpenAI targets performance budgets. Featured image for SEO

Industry / May 29

ChatGPT ads gain conversion tracking as OpenAI targets performance budgets

By Alessandro Benigni

CNN Sues Perplexity Over 17,000 Scraped Stories, Trademark Fraud. Featured image for SEO

Industry / May 29

CNN Sues Perplexity Over 17,000 Scraped Stories, Trademark Fraud

By Alessandro Benigni

Google Ads Deletes Granular History After June 1. Export Now.. Featured image for SEO

Industry / May 29

Google Ads Deletes Granular History After June 1. Export Now.

By Alessandro Benigni

EU Prepares Record DMA Fine for Google Over Search Self-Preferencing. Featured image for SEO

Industry / May 27

EU Prepares Record DMA Fine for Google Over Search Self-Preferencing

By Alessandro Benigni

Google Appeals Search Monopoly Ruling to DC Circuit. Featured image for SEO

Industry / May 26

Google Appeals Search Monopoly Ruling to DC Circuit

By Alessandro Benigni

Illustration of multiple search engine doorways branching away from a single dominant one

Industry / May 21

Google's AI Overhaul Sends Some Users Toward Rival Engines

By Alessandro Benigni

Shopping cart graphic representing Google Universal Cart unifying checkout across Google surfaces

Industry / May 20

Google Universal Cart pulls checkout inside search itself

By Alessandro Benigni

Editorial graphic for an article on Google Search information agents

Industry / May 19

Google adds always-on information agents to Search

By Alessandro Benigni

A rising line chart over a Google Ads dashboard, representing higher cost-per-click and improved conversion rates.

Industry / May 18

Google Ads CPC rose to $5.42 as conversion rates climbed

By Alessandro Benigni