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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Category: Automotive Marketing
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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Preparing for the Next Generation of Car Buyers
A NADA Show 2026 session backed by a real survey of 1,700 dealership customers, and the findings contradict the stereotype: Gen Z…
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Google Will Charge You for Missed Calls: Your 26 August Brief
From 1 October, Google Local Services Ads will charge you for calls nobody answered, and for the follow up call as well.…
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Tuesday Brief: That Search Console Security Email Was a Google Fault
Search Console emailed thousands of site owners on Monday claiming a new owner had been added, and it was a bug. Google…
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Shift Happens: Navigating the Next Generation’s Road to the Dealership
A NADA Show 2026 session on selling to Gen Z carries ten statistics and not one source. We traced six of them:…
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Monday Brief: Google Quietly Repaired Two of Its Own Faults Over the Weekend
Google confirmed on Sunday that the search favicon bug is fully fixed, and repaired the Search Console crawl stats gap over the…
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Sunday Brief: Google Has Stopped Fixing Your Broken Schema Code
Google has stopped tidying up badly escaped structured data, so rich results can disappear without a single warning. Reddit lost 86% of…
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Your Week in Search and Social: 16 to 21 August 2026
A 41 day experiment found Googlebot reaching only 2 percent of pages linked by JavaScript, and the AI crawlers found almost none.…
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Jumpstarting Your Sales Team’s Social Media
A NADA Show 2026 session argues that if your salespeople are bad at social media, that is management’s failure and not theirs.…
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Friday Brief: Google’s Video Carousel Has Halved Since 12 August
Google's video carousel now shows on under 20% of searches, down from just over 30%, and on tracked brand names it fell…
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Thursday Brief: Googlebot Found Just 2% of a Site’s JavaScript Links
A 41 day experiment split one site's internal links between plain HTML and JavaScript. Googlebot found 2% of the JavaScript pages and…
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