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When AI Takes The Click, Click Worthiness Should Guide Your Strategy
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Reddit CEO Intends To Show More Reviews And Recommendations
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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman revealed intent to leverage the platform’s vast amount of evergreen content on recommendations and reviews.
Report That Cloudflare AI Bot Blocking Prevents Googlebot From Indexing Sites
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WooCommerce Social Login WordPress Plugin Enables Full Site Takeover
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Snapchat Clamps Down On AI-Generated Videos
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AI Referrals Are Recreating The Oldest Mistake In Conversion Optimization
If you run CRO or SEO, the oldest mistake in your discipline just came back wearing a new referrer string. Here’s the fix.
The Future Of Discoverability
Articles alone stopped being a viable product. A discoverability framework for publishers: passive, active, owned – plus the intent-led journalism that gets you there.
When AI Takes The Click, Click Worthiness Should Guide Your Strategy
Search volume told you what people want to know. It no longer tells you whether they need you after AI answers. Click Worthiness does.
AI Visibility Measurement: What To Track & What To Ignore
Citations, sentiment, and LLM referral traffic make poor KPIs. Here are the AI visibility metrics that actually connect to leads, pipeline, and revenue.
Reddit CEO Intends To Show More Reviews And Recommendations
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman revealed intent to leverage the platform’s vast amount of evergreen content on recommendations and reviews.
What Top Stories Inside AI Overviews Means For Publishers And Brands In 2026 And Beyond
Most publishers think robots.txt keeps them out of AI Overviews. It doesn’t. John Shehata’s data shows what the wrong setting actually costs newsrooms.
Microsoft Advertising Adds AI Visibility Insights, PMax Testing, And Creative Preview Updates
Microsoft Advertising expands AI Visibility, Performance Max testing, and Ad Preview Hub with new reporting, experimentation, and creative review capabilities.
Paid Search Absorbed Organic’s Collapse – Then Q2 Slowed Down
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Google Ads Bidding Strategies: Where To Spend Your Time In 2026
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YouTube Views Rose While Long-Form Ad Revenue Fell, Data Shows
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Amazon Left US Google Shopping A Year Ago & Never Came Back
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Google Ads Adds Target-Based Bidding For Ecommerce Campaigns
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Why AI Content Stopped Working & What To Do About It [Watch Now]
Does Google penalize AI content? Get answers on GEO, answer engine optimization, and the content personalization signals that convert. Watch on demand.
AI Content Marketing For Agencies: 6 Ways To Stay Competitive Right Now
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How Do I Split Pages Between Brand Building & Converting? – Ask An SEO
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How Google May ‘Understand’ Unique Content
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Evergreen Content Is Over – The Individual Is The Only Strategy Left
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AI Search: Is Your Content Strategy Accidentally Recommending Your Competitors?
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6 Ways To Prepare Your Business For AI In 2026
This checklist, created from CallRail’s October 2025 survey of 600 small-to-midsize businesses, walks you through six areas to implement AI that can:
- Personalize prospect experience.
- Deliver more targeted ads and identify top performing channels.
- Turn that data into stronger, more accurate campaigns that generate more qualified leads.
Reddit Wants To Be The Destination, Not Just The Source Behind Search & AI
By Brent Csutoras
Reddit’s Q2 call laid out the daily destination strategy and the participation problem standing in its way. What marketers should do now.
Reddit CEO Intends To Show More Reviews And Recommendations
By Roger Montti
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman revealed intent to leverage the platform’s vast amount of evergreen content on recommendations and reviews.
Snapchat Clamps Down On AI-Generated Videos
By Roger Montti
Snap announced that it is removing wholly AI-generated videos from Snapchat’s Spotlight recommendations in favor of promoting authentic human-authored experiences.
X Live-Tweets Its Fight Against Chatbot Spam In Real-Time
By Roger Montti
X publicly documented its anti-chatbot campaign over 24 hours, showing how quickly AI-generated spam evolves and how X responds.
The AI Overviews YouTube Gap: The Platform Your Team Skipped For 20 Years
By Greg Jarboe
Stop measuring creator partnerships by view counts. The value shows up downstream, in traffic, AI citations, and conversions your dashboard isn’t tracking.
YouTube Explains What Can Stop A Channel Getting Paid
By Matt G. Southern
YouTube spelled out three kinds of content that can stop a channel from getting paid, and says it’s clarifying existing rules, not changing them.