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Visibility Gets You On The List, Evidence Helps You Stay There

AI visibility can hide evidence gaps that weaken recommendations as buyers evaluate integrations, workflows, and outcomes.

Google Discovers Unexpected Patterns In AI Image Generation

Google analyzed millions of Nano Banana prompts and found how businesses are using it for marketing.

Google Ads Gives You More Channel Control – But Not As Much As You Think

Curb unwanted Google Ads spending without losing valuable conversions by understanding where channel priorities and budget allocation limits give you control.

Meta Paused Its New Business Terms, And Businesses Should Plan As If It Never Gets Better

A business that gets its customers through Meta should plan as if Meta will never get better for it. Start building other channels.

Google’s November 2026 Core Update Starts Rolling Out

Google has begun rolling out its November 2026 core update globally and says it may take up to two weeks to complete.

Google Ads Now Runs In AI Mode Across 10 More Countries

Google is rolling out English-language ads in AI Mode to more than 10 new countries and launching multiturn ads for follow-up queries in the U.S.

“F*** Keywords” – Well, What Are You Replacing Them With?

Declaring keywords dead is easy. Explaining what you’ll track, how you’ll govern content, and what stakeholders buy into is the harder part.

Google Releases Modern Web Guidance 1.0 For AI Coding Agents

Google’s Modern Web Guidance 1.0 adds a codebase audit to its free skill set for AI coding agents.

Good Vs. Bad pSEO: Learnings From A Decade Of Building Scalable Content Engines

Build programmatic SEO pages that earn their place with unique data, clear publishing standards, and pruning rules that keep scale from becoming spam.

Jon Miller On AI And The Future Of Marketing Automation

Jon Miller joins Heather Campbell to discuss how AI could reshape marketing automation, buying groups, and the decisions marketers face before renewing legacy platforms.

Meta Pauses Its Updated Business And Ad Terms Due Nov. 20

Meta paused its updated business and ad terms, leaving existing crawl rights in place for advertisers.

ChatGPT Ads Is Replacing Max Bid & Max CPC With Cost Targets

ChatGPT Ads is replacing manual bid caps with average cost targets, with separate dates for new campaigns, existing campaigns and API partners.

Google Ads Are Reaching Upper-Funnel Searches – But AI Mode Pays Less

Protect PPC budgets as Google's AI Mode pushes search earlier in the buying journey, with four account changes to test whether discovery pays.

Google Ads Tests A Weekly AI Report Card For Your Ad Creative

Some Google Ads accounts show an Asset activity page that uses AI to deliver weekly insight cards on ad creative, including headline ideas to test.

SEO Split Testing In 2027: How To Prove A Change Actually Worked

Separate real SEO gains from Google's shifts with fair controls, clear decision rules, and results stakeholders can tie to revenue.

Why An AI Usage Report Stopped Comparing AI With Search Engines

Graphite estimates AI assistants reached 76 billion monthly sessions worldwide and says it can no longer reliably compare AI search use with search engines.

The New Organic Growth Stack: Search, Social, Communities & AI

Build an organic growth stack around the sources Google's AI answers and standalone chatbots cite most in your category.

Ziff Davis CEO: ‘Not Planning On A Search Recovery’

A large publisher says organic Google referrals fell again and pointed to Search Console's AI report. Here's what its AI impressions comparison measures.

Google’s AI Features Sent One Site An Estimated 21% Of Its Clicks

One site opted out of Google’s AI features to estimate its clicks from AI Overviews and AI Mode, plus a possible lift on regular listings.

Create More Helpful Content For AI Search With 9 Practical Workflows [Webinar]

Use AI workflows to turn customer insights into helpful content for AI search and reduce manual publishing and reporting. Join us November 18 at 2 PM ET.

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