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Google’s June 2024 spam update rollout is now complete. The spam update started on December 19, 2024, about seven days ago, finishing on December 26, 2024. This was the third spam update of the 2024 ...

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Google has unleashed a new search spam update today, the December 2024 spam update. “Released the December 2024 spam update, ...

The fourth, and I suspect, last core update of the 2024 year, the December 2024 core update, is now done rolling out and ...

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This last Google core update was more impactful than the November core update but not the August or March 2024 core updates.

Switching to conversion-based bidding in Google Ads may automatically change keywords to broad match, risking inflated ad spend and irrelevant traffic.

Google has expanded its AI-organized search results for local queries on restaurants. As a reminder, Google announced AI-organized search results back at Google I/O in May, then officially began ...

Advertisers risk ad disapprovals if their sites violate Google’s spam policies, making search compliance critical to PPC success.

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