Africa Was The Only Region Where Search Grew: Your Tuesday Brief
Search traffic share fell in nine of the ten regions Chartbeat tracks. Africa was the only one that gained, rising from 41…
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Tag: Dealer Marketing
Half of Marketers Plan to Cut SEO Spend: Search and Social Update, 16 October 2026
Half of marketing leaders say they will cut SEO spend, and most admit they now write pages no person will read. Google…
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ChatGPT Traffic Went Missing: Your Thursday Brief
ChatGPT stopped tagging its own links around 9 October, so the traffic it sends you now lands in analytics as direct. Google…
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Meta’s 18.9 Percent Claim: Your Wednesday Brief
Meta says its new ads model lifted conversions by 18.9 percent and published no test to back it. Gemini 4 Argon is…
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Meta Puts a Price on Its Best AI: Your Tuesday Brief
Meta has put its most advanced AI model behind a subscription running from twenty to one hundred dollars a month. Google is…
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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…
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Your Week in Search and Social: 21 to 25 September 2026
A WordPress patch was attacked in five hours and 350,000 sites are still unprotected. Facebook is capping free pages at two link…
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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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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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Master Digital Leadership: The 2X Promise, and What Cox’s Own Research Says
Two Cox Automotive SVPs told NADA Show 2026 that dealers who act now will be twice as efficient and nearly twice as…
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Search and Social Update: Fewer Shopping Impressions, More Clicks
Google Shopping ads are showing less often but converting better, and new data across 175 billion impressions explains why. Plus a warning…
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Ten Keys to Service Video Quality: A Rubric Worth Stealing, Numbers Worth Checking
A NADA Show 2026 session on inspection videos delivers the best operational rubric of the series and the shakiest evidence. Here is…
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