AI watermarks are live and impacting rankings, Meta is building a search index, and Google is hiding the search button In this issue: Meta’s crawler traffic exploded this month in a pattern that strongly resembles a company building its own search index. Google tested a home page for logged-
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Every year, SEOs write prediction posts (like this one). And every year, we don't really predict much of anything, to be honest. And its not that the logic is flawed or the posts are bad, but because we've been predicting incremental changes to a system that&
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Your MarketingAI’d update on the SEO, content, and AI trends shaping how you work (and win) ✏️In this issue: key insights from Google’s latest algorithm updates, new research on how AI platforms are shaping discovery, and a surprising test that shows the outsized influence of footers on AI
Ever feel like marketing projects have a personal vendetta against your deadlines and budget? You’re not imagining it. Turns out 79% of projects run over budget, and 62% fall behind schedule.* On the flip side, companies that nail project management outperform their competitors by 25% in revenue growth and
If you were hoping for a quiet month in search, that’s adorable. Google rolled out another batch of updates—some of them obvious, some that will show up in your analytics before you see the announcement. There’s a new AI button, more experiments with how results are grouped,
Hey gang, happy July! Hope you've got a blissfully work-free summer on deck (or at least some sunshine between deadlines). Meanwhile, Google has other plans. Looks like July’s shaping up to keep SEOs fully caffeinated. Here is the news: Yup, Google just dropped a core update!
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