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Google Merchant Center Now Lets Retailers Upload Product Videos Directly
Google Merchant Center is giving retailers a more direct way to bring video into their product marketing. A newly spotted “Product videos” section allows merchants to upload produc...
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Google Ads Is Testing Cross-Campaign Reach and Frequency Controls for Video and Demand Gen
Google Ads is beta testing a new campaign-group structure that could give video advertisers something they have long struggled to manage cleanly: reach and frequency across several...
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Google’s Sponsored Results Label Is Sometimes Misaligned—and It Looks Like a SERP Bug
A small visual inconsistency in Google's Search results is drawing attention because it affects one of the most important pieces of disclosure on the page: the heading that tells u...
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Google Ads Can Now Separate Loyalty-Program Members in Performance Reports
Google Ads is making loyalty customers easier to isolate inside campaign reporting, giving ecommerce advertisers a clearer view of how their existing membership base performs compa...
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Google Ads Can Now Separate Loyalty-Program Members in Performance Reports
Google Ads is making loyalty customers easier to isolate inside campaign reporting, giving ecommerce advertisers a clearer view of how their existing membership base performs compa...
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Google Shopping Ads Are Testing Live Countdown Labels for Expiring Deals
Google is experimenting with a new way to make urgency visible directly inside Shopping ads: a live countdown telling shoppers how long an offer has left. A Shopping result spotted...
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Google Says “Expand or Create a New Page?” Has No Universal SEO Answer
One of the most common content-architecture questions in SEO sounds as if it should have a definitive answer: when an existing page needs more depth but one part of the topic could...
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Fixing a Rejected Google Ads Location Asset May Require Editing—and Relinking—the Business Profile
A rejected Google Ads location asset can look like an Ads problem even when the field that needs fixing lives somewhere else. Google's newly clarified policy documentation makes th...
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97% of Google’s People Also Ask Answers May Now Be AI Overviews
Google's People Also Ask feature may be undergoing a much deeper transformation than a normal SERP redesign. According to new third-party tracking, the expandable questions that ha...
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Google Merchant Center Now Recommends Product Terms and Attributes Specifically for AI Search Visibility
Google is giving ecommerce teams something they have rarely had for generative search: direct, product-level clues about what shoppers are asking AI systems and which information m...
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Google’s New EU Search Layout Puts Comparison Engines Above Local Businesses—and Removes Real-Time Prices
Google is changing the visual hierarchy of European search results in one of the clearest examples yet of regulation directly reshaping the search interface. Under a new Digital Ma...
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