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Google Ads appears to separate Target CPA and Target ROAS bidding strategies
Google is giving Smart Bidding targets greater visibility, potentially making bidding strategy selection easier for advertisers.
Search Engine Land
Google rolls out AI content labels across its advertising platforms
Google's AI content label helps advertisers disclose AI-generated or edited creatives as transparency requirements expand worldwide.
Search Engine Land
Heavily AI-Flagged Pages Still Rank Across Google’s Top 10 via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Data ties higher AI detector scores to lower positions and to fewer pages in Google's index, though heavily flagged pages still rank in top 10.
Search Engine Journal
SMX Advanced expands in 2027: See you in San Diego or Boston
More opportunities to learn from expert speakers, join in-depth Q&A, and connect with top SEO and PPC professionals at two 2027 conferences.
Search Engine Land
AI Opt-Out May Cost Sites A Google Top Stories Spot via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google is putting Top Stories carousels inside AI Overviews, raising the stakes on its new AI opt-out setting in Search Console.
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Google On SEO Impact Of URLs Injected Into HTML By CMS Platforms via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google's John Mueller explains the SEO impact of random URLs injected into web pages by CMS platforms.
Search Engine Journal
Google’s Illyes Unsure On Shifting unavailable_after Dates via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google's Gary Illyes said he would need to check whether pushing an unavailable_after date forward on every renewal causes problems. He gave a first read.
Search Engine Journal
Google’s Open Knowledge Format Adds Five Trust Signals via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google announced version 0.2 of the Open Knowledge Format, introducing five new trust signals.
Search Engine Journal
Google’s Mueller: Fix Conflicting Metadata, Don’t Test It via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google's John Mueller says if sites are serving conflicting metadata, they should fix the conflict, not test which source wins.
Search Engine Journal
What 15.7 million AI Mode citations reveal about getting quoted by Google by Pillarbase
A year-long study of 15.7 million AI Mode citations across 148 industries shows exactly which passages Google highlights — and reuses.
Search Engine Land
Google Ads Budget Panel
Google Ads has introduced what it calls "Budget Panel," which should be able to be found (at some point) in Performance Max and Demand Gen campaign review page. Google says the Budget Panel [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
How prompt injection puts your brand and AI workflows at risk
Prompt injection attacks put your customers, AI agents, LLM referral share, and vendor stack at risk. Here’s where the threats are emerging.
Search Engine Land
The Problem With unavailable_after - Google Might Not See Updated Dates
Google supports the unavailable_after meta attribute, which will tell Google not to show this page in search results after the specified date/time.
The problem with this, is that if you try to [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Testing Pricing On Product Images
Microsoft seems to be testing showing pricing on the product images within the Bing Search organic results.
Normally, Bing would show review stars on the product images and, below the image, show [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Target CPA & Target ROAS As Explicit Bidding Strategy Options
The Google Ads interface now shows Target CPA and Target ROAS as explicit bidding strategy options in the drop-down of bidding options.
We knew this was coming, as it is supported in the new version [...]
Search Engine Roundtable