Platforms like Spotify and LinkedIn are cracking down on AI slop. SEOs face a choice: treat AI as a shortcut or as an editorial assistant.
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Google is unifying Google tag and Tag Manager with no-code event tracking, streamlined management and faster data transmission.
New research shows how marketers define AI search, where they’re putting budget, and what vendors need to prove to earn their trust.
Reduce the business impact of suspensions, verification issues, and missing reviews with practical preparation before problems occur.
A practical framework for auditing publisher websites in 2026, covering technical SEO, content quality, E-E-A-T, and entity consistency across passive and active discovery channels.
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Why transaction data alone isn’t enough for performance marketing, and how persistent customer profiles change the equation.
Google explains whether some industries can get away with focusing on search and ignore GEO altogether.
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That’s pretty new. Letters sent by Thomas Jefferson from France often took months to get a response. No points for shaving a day off a 90-day correspondence lag. The 800 toll-free number shifted the dynamic we expected from marketers. If we call you, we expect you to answer. Now, not later. FEDEX did the same
Peter Drucker argued that the purpose of a corporation is to serve the customer. It turns out that organizations that focus on this do well. Milton Friedman argued (mistakenly, in my view) that the corporation doesn’t need to care about customers, unless this helps increase the value of the company to shareholders. Corporations are a
Google’s August spam update rolls out as generative UI reaches AI Overviews, websites get a new button, and Reddit’s ChatGPT citation share falls.
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