Marketing & SEO

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The AI Slop Loop via @sejournal, @lilyraynyc

New examples show how AI search tools confidently cite fabricated SEO updates, exposing a growing risk in relying on LLM-generated information. The post The AI Slop Loop appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Google to retire Dynamic Search Ads in favor of AI Max

Google is retiring legacy Search automation tools, including Dynamic Search Ads (DSA), in favor of AI Max, its broader AI-powered campaign suite. This will affect you if you use DSA, automatically created assets (ACA), or campaign-level broad match settings. Driving…

Google spam reports can now be used for manual actions

Google has posted that it may now use your search spam reports for manual actions and that the text used in those spam reports may be sent along “verbatim” to the site owner being reported. What Google said. Google wrote…

The new PPC playbook: From media buyer to profit engineer

Roll the clock back five, 10, or 15 years, and a PPC practitioner’s value was directly tied to tactical proficiency. Not anymore. Today, Google and Microsoft automate much of the tactical work. Machine learning and AI manage bids, test creatives,…

The Reddit detour distorting PPC signals

At $50+ CPCs, Reddit beats every vendor organically 67.3% of the time across 8,566 keywords.  The study from Ross Simmonds and his team focused on B2B SaaS, but the underlying dynamics don’t stop there. The higher the advertising competition on…