Decoding Digital: Translating Your Marketing Report Into Showroom Language
A NADA trainer with nothing to sell argues you do not need to be fluent in analytics, only accountable. His glossary is…
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Seen but Not Called: Search and Social Update, 2 September 2026
Calls from Google listings fell 11.9 percent and website clicks 12.5 percent, while direction requests rose 21.1 percent. Google also switched on…
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August 2026 in Review: What Actually Changed in Search and Social
In August a bot setting removed an entire government website from Google, and on 15 September that setting becomes the default for…
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Measuring SEO ROI With GA4: Putting a Rand Figure on Organic Search
A NADA Show 2026 session hands dealers one piece of arithmetic: monthly SEO spend divided by the actions that matter. Here is…
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The Show More Button Is Disappearing: Search and Social Update, 31 August 2026
Google has confirmed that AI Overviews now expand into full answers for some searches, removing the Show more button and pushing your…
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One Google Rule, Two Different Answers: Search and Social Update, 30 August 2026
From today Google stops applying its site reputation abuse penalty to anyone searching inside Europe, after pressure from the European Commission. Also…
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Your Week in Search and Social: 23 to 28 August 2026
Google confirmed it is routing search clicks through its own redirect links, bot protection knocked the IRS out of Google entirely, and…
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Wired to Win: Digital Retailing Tools
The least commercial session at NADA Show 2026: a NADA Academy instructor telling dealers to use the tools they already own rather…
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The IRS Vanished From Google This Week: Search and Social Update, 28 August 2026
The IRS dropped out of Google search this week because its own bot protection blocked Googlebot, and Cloudflare's new defaults on 15…
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Google Is Now Sending Your Clicks Through Its Own Links: Search and Social Update, 27 August 2026
Google is routing search clicks through its own redirect links at close to full rollout, which will make rank tracking harder and…
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