September 2026 in Review: What Actually Changed in Search and Social
September was the month the free routes started closing. Facebook capped free business pages at two link posts a month, a WordPress core flaw…
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September was the month the free routes started closing. Facebook capped free business pages at two link posts a month, a WordPress core flaw…
Read the recap →A WordPress patch was attacked in five hours and 350,000 sites are still unprotected. Facebook is capping free pages at two link posts a…
Read the recap →A NADA Show 2026 session builds an entire leadership talk on Will Ferrell films. The jokes do not travel, so we unwrapped them. What…
Read the guide →Two Cox Automotive SVPs told NADA Show 2026 that dealers who act now will be twice as efficient and nearly twice as profitable. We…
Read the guide →Google Ads started migrating search campaigns to AI Max on its own, Meta pulled placement exclusions out of ad sets, and new quarterly data…
Read the recap →A NADA Show 2026 session on inspection videos delivers the best operational rubric of the series and the shakiest evidence. Here is the grading…
Read the guide →A NADA trainer with nothing to sell argues you do not need to be fluent in analytics, only accountable. His glossary is three words…
Read the guide →In August a bot setting removed an entire government website from Google, and on 15 September that setting becomes the default for free Cloudflare…
Read the recap →A NADA Show 2026 session hands dealers one piece of arithmetic: monthly SEO spend divided by the actions that matter. Here is how to…
Read the guide →Google confirmed it is routing search clicks through its own redirect links, bot protection knocked the IRS out of Google entirely, and Local Services…
Read the recap →The least commercial session at NADA Show 2026: a NADA Academy instructor telling dealers to use the tools they already own rather than buy…
Read the guide →A NADA Show 2026 session backed by a real survey of 1,700 dealership customers, and the findings contradict the stereotype: Gen Z barely shops…
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