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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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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Google Rankings Wobble and AI Overviews Bite: Your Marketing Brief for 27 July 2026
An unconfirmed Google update rattled rankings over the weekend, with some sites reporting drops of up to 70 percent. Meanwhile AI Overviews…
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Google Wobbles, AI Rewrites the Results Page: What SA Businesses Need to Know This Week
Google rankings shifted sharply over the weekend of 18 and 19 July with no confirmed update, while new Search Console reports finally…
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Google Moves the News Into AI Overviews and Hands You the Data to Track It
Google has switched on news carousels inside AI Overviews, Search Console is rolling out AI visibility reports, and Instagram now lets users…
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Search and Social Update, 21 July 2026: AI Overviews Take Over the News
Google AI Overviews now appear on almost half of searches and just gained news carousels, while an unconfirmed ranking update shook results…
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Your Social Posts Now Show Up in Google Search Console: What Changed in Search and Social This Week
Google now reports how your Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube content performs inside Search. Add AI Overviews on nearly half of all…
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