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Apple is bringing ads to Apple Maps as soon as this summer
The long-awaited
Apple Maps ads move opens up a new high-intent, location-based advertising channel on Apple's popular mapping apps.
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SEO’s biggest threat in 2026? Your own organization
From AI overreliance to fragmented data and poor collaboration, internal issues are quietly undermining SEO performance. Here’s what to fix.
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Google is testing AI-generated animated video clips inside PMax
Google's AI image animation feature could be a win for advertisers who've been running PMax campaigns on static images alone.
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ChatGPT retrieves far more pages than it actually cites: Study
ChatGPT pulls 6x more pages than it cites, concentrating visibility among ~30 domains and favoring topic-wide coverage, study finds.
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AI citations favor listicles, articles, product pages: Study
Study of 75,000 AI answers shows listicles, articles and product pages drive 52% of citations, with intent deciding what gets cited.
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Google is tightening political content rules for Shopping ads starting April 16
Google will soon require merchants running Shopping ads featuring certain political content to verify their accounts as election advertisers.
Search Engine Land
ChatGPT citations favor a small group of domains: Study
ChatGPT pulls 6x more pages than it cites, concentrating visibility among ~30 domains and favoring topic-wide coverage, study finds.
Search Engine Land
Google releases March 2026 spam update
This spam update may only take a few days to roll out.
Search Engine Land
Google Adds AI & Bot Labels To Forum, Q&A Structured Data via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google updated its Discussion Forum and Q&A Page structured data docs with new properties, including a way to label AI- and machine-generated content.
Search Engine Journal
Google Begins Rolling Out The March 2026 Spam Update via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google started rolling out the March 2026 spam update. The update applies globally and to all languages, with rollout taking a few days.
Search Engine Journal
Report: Google AI Overviews Show Less Often For Breaking News
There is new data out from Newzdash that shows just how often AI Overviews appear within Google across new sections.
And while AI Overviews shows 60%+ of the time for health queries, when it comes [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests "Skip Digging, Start Guided Research" Driving Users to Web Guide-like Results
Google is testing showing a call to action in the search results that says, "Skip digging, start guided research" which drives users to a Web Guide-like results page.
Search Engine Roundtable
Google Business Profile Performance Metrics Offer Data Added To Help Doc
Google added a new section to the "Understand available performance metrics" within the Google Business Profiles help documentation. The new section added a section on offer data and it [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Retires Several Old Ad Format Requirements
On March 17, 2026, Google retired some of its Google Ads policies on Ad format requirements. These are specific to "old ad formats that are no longer in use are also being retired," Ginny [...]
Search Engine Roundtable