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 PPC Google's August 17 update pushes budget-limited Target CPA and Target ROAS campaigns toward their stated targets, risking higher costs unless advertisers audit and adjust first. |  SEO Google expanded its review snippet documentation with new ways content can trigger a manual action. | |
 X (Formerly Twitter) X publicly documented its anti-chatbot campaign over 24 hours, showing how quickly AI-generated spam evolves and how X responds. |  SEO AI bot paywalls are framed as new income. The real question is which AI answers you're willing to disappear from. | |
 Generative AI Google's new AI & Economy report compares Gemini and AI Mode conversations against how Americans spend their days. |  SEO Alphabet detailed Search revenue to the decimal. Google described web traffic in three kinds of unverifiable claims. Q2 widened the gap. | |
 SEO Google's John Mueller explains a robots.txt quirk that can cause Googlebot to ignore robots.txt rules. |  Local Search GatherUp's Annie Jackson and Jason Wertham show how to audit what ChatGPT and AI Overviews say about your locations, and which inputs change the answer. | |
 SEO Stop measuring creator partnerships by view counts. The value shows up downstream, in traffic, AI citations, and conversions your dashboard isn't tracking. | |
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