Google Lets You Turn Off Visible Watermarks In Gemini via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google Gemini allows users to disable the visible watermark on AI-generated images, videos, and music, while SynthID and C2PA marks stay embedded. The post Google Lets You Turn Off Visible Watermarks In Gemini appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Llms.txt V2 Adds Formal Markdown Linking For AI Agents via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
A v2 update to the llms.txt spec has shipped, adding formal link relations that help AI agents locate Markdown versions of pages. The post Llms.txt V2 Adds Formal Markdown Linking For AI Agents appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google updates Demand Gen view-through conversion optimization
Google is changing how view-through conversion (VTC) optimization works in Demand Gen campaigns, expanding support to more inventory while shifting optimization to focus exclusively on video assets. The update also changes the default campaign settings…
The AI visibility index: Which brands are vanishing from AI search?
Some of the brands with the strongest SEO footprints barely appear in AI answers. Others with much smaller search footprints show up again and again. Fractl analyzed how consistently AI models recommend brands, which brands disappear despite strong SEO…
The $113,000 paid search test: How much traffic did organic replace?
I turned off $113,000 a month in paid search. Thirteen weeks later, 65% of the paid-attributed revenue had been recaptured through organic and direct, and the analysis showed that nearly nine out of 10 dollars in the branded campaign I studied had been…
Inside ChatGPT’s retrieval stack: The index, cache, and pages it actually reads
When ChatGPT cites a web page, where did that page come from? In July, our team at RESONEO captured and dissected 1,200 ChatGPT answers, 88,000 search results, and 26,900 distinct pages to find out. (Disclosure: I’m the co-founder of RESONEO.) We found…
The Paid ‘Search’ Email Placement: Right Place, Right Time via @sejournal, @jonkagan
Email placements work, but not as a replacement for email marketing. What Demand Gen and Audience Ads actually deliver, and how to set them up. The post The Paid ‘Search’ Email Placement: Right Place, Right Time appeared first on Search Engine…
AI Assistants Are Choosing Local Businesses For Your Customers via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
AI assistants narrow local searches before customers reach a website. See how Google builds those answers and which local signals businesses can optimize. The post AI Assistants Are Choosing Local Businesses For Your Customers appeared first on Search…
Google: Subject/Object Entity Order Affects AI Answers via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google’s research shows that LLMs struggle to recall facts when questions reverse the usual subject/object entity order. The post Google: Subject/Object Entity Order Affects AI Answers appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
ChatGPT’s Index, GA Benchmarks, Google Refiles Complaint – SEO Pulse via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google Analytics adds campaign benchmarking, new data on ChatGPT’s index search index, and Google refiles its SerpApi claims with new terms. The post ChatGPT’s Index, GA Benchmarks, Google Refiles Complaint – SEO Pulse appeared first on Search…