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Google Pushes “Bounce Clicks” Explanation For AI Overview Traffic Loss via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google’s Liz Reid told Bloomberg AI Overviews cut “bounce clicks,” not deeper visits, but Google still hasn’t shared data backing that claim.
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AI Overview CTR Fell 61%, But Clicks Didn’t Collapse via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Seer Interactive says brand-cited AI Overview CTR fell 61% as impressions grew faster than clicks across cited pages.
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Bing Tests Less Clickable Links In Copilot Search Results
Microsoft Bing is testing making the links within the AI results, the Copilot Search results, less clickable.
Typically, the whole line of text is clickable to the citation but here, Bing is testing [...]
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Google Tests AI Label On Search Ads
Google is testing adding an AI label to some of the search ads, the sponsored results, within the search results.
Clicking on the AI label does nothing, according to Brodie Clark who spotted this.
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Google Maps Video Editing Within Google App
Google now lets you edit videos within your Google Business Profiles, directly in the Google app. There are basic editing tools, probably more than most businesses require, to update and edit the [...]
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Cultural SEO: A practical framework for Spanish markets in AI search
AI systems flatten Spanish markets into a single default. Learn how to build market-specific signals across content, retrieval, and entities.
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Google Click Through Rates Improving For Organic Results With AI Overviews
Google may be doing something right with improving the click-through rates from the organic search results page that contain AI Overviews. An update report shows the CTR is improving, after numerous [...]
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Google Ads Confirms Demand Gen Image Ads Approval Delays
Google's Ginny Marvin, the Ads Liaison, has confirmed there are delays for some Demand Gen Image ads to be approved.
Some of these delays are several days pending, not hours, but several days.
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What are you optimizing for in paid search when keywords matter less?
Search platforms rely less on keywords. Signals, data quality, and intent mapping now drive how ads are targeted and performance is measured.
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Albertsons Media Collective brings retail signals to YouTube with Google’s Commerce Media Suite.
Supercharge performance across the shopper journey by connecting Albertsons data with Google’s AI and scale.
7 lessons from moving from agency to in-house SEO
Owning performance means turning analysis into action, navigating internal teams, and answering for results when things don’t go as planned.
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Bing Webmaster Tools teases new AI reporting updates
These include citation share, grounding query intent, and GEO-focused recommendations.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 27, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
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Google’s AI Overviews Cut Organic Clicks 38%, Field Study Finds via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
A randomized field experiment found Google AI Overviews reduced organic clicks on triggered queries by 38%, while user experience ratings stayed unchanged.
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Top 4 ecommerce trends for 2026
Discover the top ecommerce trends for 2026, including AI-driven shopping, unified commerce, TikTok Shop growth, and livestream selling — plus how brands can stay competitive.
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