It's New 9/14: Google paying publishers for AI using content, weird Google update, Google Ads & Google Analytics episode artwork

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It's New 9/14: Google paying publishers for AI using content, weird Google update, Google Ads & Google Analytics

from Search Engine Roundtable Podcast · host Barry Schwartz

Today we covered how Google’s AI contribution report in Search Console is actually Google paying publishers for using its content in AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini.  Google Search had an unconfirmed update around September 4th that reversed on September 13th. Google page indexing report in Search Console is missing a chunk of data. Google Ads has Product value optimization beta. There are new dashboards in Google Analytics.0:00 - Introduction0:59 - Google paying publishers for their content used in AI Search5:51 - Google Search update on 9/4 that reverts 9/137:31 - Google page indexing report missing a lot of data8:48 - Google Ads Product value optimization beta11:00 - Lawnmower haircut 💇11:40 - Dashboards in Google Analytics 13:52 - ConclusionA daily recap video summarizing a few of the top search marketing headlines covered at the Search Engine Roundtable.This recap is called It's New - A quick, daily dose of the latest in SEO with Anu Adegbola of Search Engine Land, Mordy Oberstein of SE Ranking and Greg Finn of Cypress North (and Marketing O’Clock) and Barry Schwartz.

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