TikTok launches U.S.-controlled joint venture to meet national security rules
TikTok’s new U.S.-controlled joint venture could determine whether the app survives in America and reshape how foreign-owned tech is regulated.
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User Data Is Important In Google Search, Per Liz Reid’s DOJ Filing via @sejournal, @marie_haynes
Marie Haynes analyzes DOJ trial documents that reveal how Google’s proprietary freshness signals, spam annotations, and user data power its ranking systems.
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SEO Pulse: Google’s AI Mode Gets Personal, AI Bots Blocked, Domains Matter in Search via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
This week’s SEO Pulse breaks down how Gmail-powered AI answers, crawler access decisions, and free subdomains are shaping who gets surfaced in search.
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PPC Pulse: Google’s Podcast Launch, Demand Gen, ChatGPT Ads via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson
This week’s PPC Pulse recaps OpenAI’s first ad test inside ChatGPT, Google’s new advertiser podcast, and expanded Demand Gen capabilities.
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A smarter way to approach AI prompting
Prompts describe tasks. Rubrics define rules. Here’s how rubric-based prompting reduces hallucinations in search and content workflows.
Agentic AI and vibe coding: The next evolution of PPC management
Agentic AI and custom-built tools are changing how PPC accounts are run – and what marketers need to focus on next.
45 Best Subreddits For Marketing & SEO Professionals via @sejournal, @theshelleywalsh
Key Reddit communities that professionals use to stay informed, ask smarter questions, and learn from peers across industries.
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On-Page SEO Checklist: The Complete Task List for 2026
Follow this on-page SEO checklist to optimize your titles, content, URLs, internal links, and more.
BuddyPress WordPress Vulnerability May Impact Up To 100,000 Sites via @sejournal, @martinibuster
BuddyPress WordPress vulnerability enables unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes
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Bent incentives
Who is Nicole Bennet and why does she keep calling me? A few times a day, a voice pretending to be someone named Nicole rings my cell, and in a petulant, entitled voice, insists she’s calling me about a loan that I never applied for. I’ve never interacted, I block each number, but the calls