Six Days of Rank Drops That Never Happened: Search and Social Update, 12 October 2026
For nearly six days Google fed rank tracking tools short result pages, and an average of eight of the top ten sites…
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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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Seen but Not Called: Search and Social Update, 2 September 2026
Calls from Google listings fell 11.9 percent and website clicks 12.5 percent, while direction requests rose 21.1 percent. Google also switched on…
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Tuesday Brief: Google Says Your Search Console Collapse Never Happened
Your Search Console AI impressions collapsed on 13 August and Google has confirmed none of it was real. Plus a paused AI…
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Your Week in Search and Social: 9 to 14 August 2026
Three changes this week were not features you can adopt when ready. Google Ads starts migrating campaigns to AI Max on 1…
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Google Ads Starts Locking Gmail Accounts Out of Their Own Settings
Google has begun piloting a rule that stops free email addresses like Gmail from making sensitive changes to a Google Ads account.…
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Search and Social Update: 9 August 2026
The word yes is showing up as a query in Search Console, and it is coming from AI Mode follow-ups. Google is…
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Search and Social Update: 7 August 2026
WordPress 7.0.3 closes twelve vulnerabilities, including a login screen flaw that needs no password at all. Google Shopping starts printing countdown badges…
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Google can now strip the stars off your search listing: search and social update, 28 July 2026
Google has banned fake and undisclosed incentivised reviews from review snippets, with manual actions for sites that ignore it. Plus the zero-click…
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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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