AI sends barely any traffic, but the traffic it sends is twice as engaged. Here’s why publishers should care.

Before your next AI video goes live: Audit disclosure against YouTube’s actual policy, produce below the ceiling, and name the human decision-maker. The post AI Video After Sora: 3 Updates You Should Make Before You Publish appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Another week…

Google’s August 17 update pushes budget-limited Target CPA and Target ROAS campaigns toward their stated targets, risking higher costs unless advertisers audit and adjust first. The post Google Ads’ Target-Based Bidding Update For Ecommerce appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google updated its review snippets structured data markup guidelines on Friday to provide a pretty obvious guideline that Google felt it needed to spell out.

Google may be penalizing AI-generated content under an expanded definition of thin content. The post Google May Be Penalizing AI-Generated Content As Thin Content appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google may be slowly rolling out a blue colored background for the Google Business Profile dashboard within Google Search. Previously, it was on a white background, and now some local SEOs are seeing a blue background.

Google Ads is reportedly offering a new exclusion type for Performance Max campaigns. This one is named household income exclusions, which is not new to Google Ads as a whole, but maybe for PMax campaigns.

Google has made numerous changes to its help document on Google Ads conversion measurements. The updates include information about how long the measurements need to collect data, what the best sources for gathering that data are, and even more.

Google may have a bug or issue with using the request indexing or recrawling your robots.txt files within Google Search Console. Supposedly, the feature is not working properly for all sites, but it is working for some sites as well.