Google’s Spam Update Will Take Two Weeks: Your Friday Brief
Google's September 2026 spam update began rolling out on Thursday with a warning that it may take two weeks, four times longer…
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Search and Social Update: You Get Four Days to Stop a Stranger Editing Your Google Listing
Google has confirmed you get four days to reject a user suggested edit to your Business Profile before it may publish anyway.…
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Search and Social Update: A WordPress Patch Was Under Attack Within Five Hours
WordPress 7.1.2 fixes a critical unauthenticated flaw, and attackers began probing for it under five hours after the patch went public. Plus…
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Paying More for Less: Search and Social Update, 22 September 2026
Average Meta campaign spend rose 47 percent this year while return on ad spend fell, according to a study of nearly 629,000…
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Two Link Posts a Month: Search and Social Update, 21 September 2026
Facebook has started limiting some business pages to two link posts a month unless they pay, and Meta's own data shows link…
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Google Is Writing Your Business Listing Now: Search and Social Update, 18 September 2026
Google has started putting an AI Overview label on top of local business listings, with a generated description nobody at your company…
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Four in Five South Africans Are Online. One in Three Buys Anything: Search and Social Update, 17 September 2026
South African online retail hit R159 billion this year, yet the share of adults who shop online fell to 34.2 percent. OpenAI…
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Google Has Started Paying for the Answers: Search and Social Update, 15 September 2026
Google has begun paying some publishers when their pages shape an AI answer, through an invitation only pilot inside Search Console with…
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Are You Will-ing to Lead? The Leadership Advice Behind the Will Ferrell Jokes
A NADA Show 2026 session builds an entire leadership talk on Will Ferrell films. The jokes do not travel, so we unwrapped…
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AI Wrote the Blog Posts and Results Fell Anyway: Search and Social Update, 14 September 2026
AI now touches nine in ten blog posts, yet content results have fallen to a twelve year low and the survey says…
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