Google Ads API to stop supporting new Smart Campaign creation
Google will end support for creating new Smart Campaigns via its Ads API, further shifting advertisers toward Performance Max.
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ChatGPT recommendations drive more brand website visits: Study
AI-influenced visitors viewed 12 pages and spent 11.8 minutes on site, compared with 6.5 pages and 5.6 minutes for others, SimilarWeb found.
OpenAI says ChatGPT ad dismissals have dropped 50% as relevance improves
OpenAI says ChatGPT users are dismissing ads 50% less often, suggesting its conversational ad format is becoming more relevant.
The Accessibility Tree Is How AI Agents Read Your Site & It’s Breaking via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic
Accessibility used to be a compliance checkbox. In 2026 it’s the interface the majority of your visitors use to read your website.
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Stop trying to replace people with AI
Fear-based AI positioning grabs attention, but it can undermine trust. Here’s why augmentation is a stronger long-term marketing strategy.
Why International SEO Needs A Global Knowledge Integrity Strategy via @sejournal, @billhunt
AI search transforms international SEO challenges from selecting correct pages to ensuring accurate, market-specific information survives AI synthesis and retrieval.
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Google tests “Strongest match” labels on Search ads
Google is exploring new ways to highlight the most relevant ads in Search, potentially giving advertisers a visibility advantage.
Why AI Visibility Does Not Only Depend On SEO
AI visibility issues often reflect organizational misalignment rather than SEO problems, as inconsistent data confuses language models.
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Tailor Your Feed: The Google Discover fan-out that surfaces niche sites
Here’s why it opens a third visibility path for small sites, beyond implicit affinity and the Follow button.
Google DeepMind Admits Large-Scale AI Agent Deployment Is Unsafe Today via @sejournal, @martinibuster
As AI agents proliferate into the web, a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind warns that scale makes failure inevitable.
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