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Is your SEO strategy ready for LLM grounding? Explore the distinction between training data and live web retrieval, and discover how to optimize your brand’s visibility in AI search results.

Google’s AI Mode self-citations tripled in nine months. SE Ranking data shows that more links now lead to organic search results, not business profiles.
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Advertisers have until March 31 to complete a mandatory EU political ads declaration — or risk falling foul of new European regulation.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Schema helps Google and AI systems verify business information and reduce conflicts across local packs, AI Overviews, and search results.

Channel dashboards don’t tell the whole story. Connecting paid media, analytics, and CRM data reveals demand before it appears in pipeline.

Unstructured testing can destabilize campaigns and waste budget. Learn how agentic AI helps structure smarter marketing experiments.

A few years ago, Microsoft Advertising the support of Asian owned labels and attributes on its search ads within Bing. Google has a similar attribute, by the way. Honestly, I’ve never seen the label on Bing, until now.