Google has released the June 2026 spam update today at around noon ET. This follows the May 2026 core update, following the March 2026 core update, the March 2026 spam update, and the February 2026 Discover update. What Google said. Google wrote, “Released the June 2026 spam update, which applies globally and to all languages. The rollout may […]
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Google is testing “Strongest Match” labels on Search ads. Here’s what advertisers know so far and the questions Google hasn’t answered. The post Google Tests ‘Strongest Match’ Labels On Search Ads appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Google is effectively closing the door on creating new Smart Campaigns through its API, suggesting a continued shift toward newer automated campaign types such as Performance Max and away from legacy automation products. What’s happening. Google announced that developers will no longer be able to create new Smart Campaigns through the Google Ads API beginning
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Users who saw a brand recommended by ChatGPT were much more likely to visit that brand’s website within a week, according to Similarweb. What happened. Users were 2.5 times more likely, on average, to visit an AI-recommended brand than a direct competitor, based on Similarweb’s study of U.S. desktop behavior across finance, travel, and beauty.
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OpenAI is signaling early momentum in its advertising business, with executives reporting that users are increasingly engaging with ads inside ChatGPT rather than dismissing them — a key metric as the company builds a new revenue stream beyond subscriptions and enterprise AI. What’s happening. OpenAI says the rate at which users dismiss ads within ChatGPT
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Accessibility used to be a compliance checkbox. In 2026 it’s the interface the majority of your visitors use to read your website. The post The Accessibility Tree Is How AI Agents Read Your Site & It’s Breaking appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
The biggest positioning mistake in AI marketing is selling your product as a replacement for people. It wins attention now, but costs you trust later. Heads up: This memo is a slight deviation from the usual topics I regularly write about. But it’s an important one. In this memo: Why “substitution positioning” feels good short
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Generating demand is one of the biggest challenges in digital marketing. Measuring where that demand came from is even harder. For nearly two decades, marketers have evaluated paid search and paid social as separate channels. Search campaigns are typically measured on clicks, conversions, and ROAS, while social is often judged by platform-reported metrics and attributed
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Cornell Tech researchers found that deep-research AI agents can be manipulated by short edits to public user-generated pages, allowing a single injected Reddit-style comment to become a cited recommendation for fake products, services, or entities. The paper called those altered pages “poisoned” because the added text was designed to steer what the AI system cited
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AI search transforms international SEO challenges from selecting correct pages to ensuring accurate, market-specific information survives AI synthesis and retrieval. The post Why International SEO Needs A Global Knowledge Integrity Strategy appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
