Why ad approval is not legal protection
Section 230 shields ad platforms from liability, while FTC enforcement holds advertisers strictly responsible for deceptive ad claims.
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Google adds Maps to Demand Gen channel controls
Advertisers now have the option to run Demand Gen ads on Google Maps, either alongside other channels or as a standalone placement.
Google Reveals The Top Searches Of 2025 via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google’s Year in Search reveals trending actors, movies, athletes, games, recipes, and travel destinations that captured attention throughout 2025.
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How vibe coding is changing search marketing workflows
As Google’s AI Overviews answer more queries directly, vibe coding gives marketers a way to create interactive experiences AI can’t replace.
Why Every Google Ads Account Needs To Run Scripts
PPC accounts without scripts rely on luck, manual checks, and late alerts. Here’s why that’s a risk serious advertisers shouldn’t accept.
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Ask An SEO: What Is The Threshold Between Keyword Stuffing & Being Optimized? via @sejournal, @rollerblader
This week’s Ask an SEO addresses where keyword optimization ends and keyword stuffing begins in modern search and AI-driven systems.
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What successful brand-agency partnerships look like in 2026
Agency roles differ by company size, from execution-first to integrated partners. Here’s how to align structure and accountability.
Random access
Under each post on my blog there’s a button that says RANDOM. I’ll confess that reading posts I wrote ten or twenty years ago is often a surprise. I wrote each one, but I have no recollection of doing so. We can no longer expect that others will experience an introduction to us and our
Do Faces Help YouTube Thumbnails? Here’s What The Data Says via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
A new dataset of 300K viral YouTube videos suggests that faces in thumbnails perform about the same as without them, with larger differences by niche.
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AI search is growing, but SEO fundamentals still drive most traffic
AI is changing search, but traditional SEO still drives most traffic. Real-world data shows which tactics continue to perform.