Google seems to be suspending Google Business Profiles due to user account restrictions. There may have been a wave of suspensions over the past several days related to this issue and local SEO experts are unclear if this is a bug or some other issue.
Microsoft, during its earnings call last week, announced that Bing hit a huge milestone of 1 billion monthly active users. Krishna Madhavan from Microsoft later confirmed these “users” do not include AI agents but are real actual humans.
Google has posted an update and emailed advertisers on changes to its Google Ads data retention policy.
Similarweb published some data sharing the click-through rates for OpenAI’s ChatGPT ads. The overall CTR for ChatGPT ads are 0.68%, the top quartile is 1%, the best brands are 1.57% and the peak CTR is 5.4%.
Google posted new developer documentation for how to authenticate requests with Web Bot Auth. This is a “new cryptographic protocol that helps websites to validate that bots are authentic,” Google wrote.
Google celebrates AI search growth while industry insiders warn of widespread job displacement. The post Google Says Search Is Fine, AI Insiders Say the Median Person Has No Future appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
This post was sponsored by Siteimprove. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Why does my content get crawled but never cited in ChatGPT or Perplexity? How do I tell if my AI visibility problem is technical or content-quality related? What actually decides whether AI picks my page over a competitor’s
This post was sponsored by Siteimprove. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Why does my content get crawled but never cited in ChatGPT or Perplexity? How do I tell if my AI visibility problem is technical or content-quality related? What actually decides whether AI picks my page over a competitor’s
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