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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Search and Social Update: A WordPress Patch Was Under Attack Within Five Hours
WordPress 7.1.2 fixes a critical unauthenticated flaw, and attackers began probing for it under five hours after the patch went public. Plus…
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Paying More for Less: Search and Social Update, 22 September 2026
Average Meta campaign spend rose 47 percent this year while return on ad spend fell, according to a study of nearly 629,000…
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Two Link Posts a Month: Search and Social Update, 21 September 2026
Facebook has started limiting some business pages to two link posts a month unless they pay, and Meta's own data shows link…
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Google Now Writes 97% of the Answers in Its Own Questions Box: Search and Social Update, 10 September 2026
Ninety seven percent of the answers inside Google's People Also Ask boxes are now AI Overviews, up from 12 percent fourteen months…
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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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The Citations Vanished: Your Search and Social Brief for 4 September 2026
Google put Gemini 3.8 Flash into AI Mode this week and the citations disappeared, which Google has now confirmed is a bug.…
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The Show More Button Is Disappearing: Search and Social Update, 31 August 2026
Google has confirmed that AI Overviews now expand into full answers for some searches, removing the Show more button and pushing your…
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One Google Rule, Two Different Answers: Search and Social Update, 30 August 2026
From today Google stops applying its site reputation abuse penalty to anyone searching inside Europe, after pressure from the European Commission. Also…
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Your Week in Search and Social: 2 to 7 August 2026
Four dated changes landed this week and every one falls inside the next month. Google Ads targets stop being suggestions on 17…
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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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