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Take a look at your SEO to-do list. Most of it is probably the same rote, repetitive tasks. Turning everyday work into faster, easier outputs is easier than ever with AI.
Besides obvious tasks like note-taking and team reminders, you can automate tasks such as content audits, page outlines, and keyword research.
Start with simple strategies to save time on the repetitive work you do every day, then expand into using AI tools for automation. Always do a final check yourself, rather than trusting 100% of your work to LLMs, which rarely get things exactly right.
One simple way to decide what you can automate is to ask yourself: Would I assign this to an intern?
The types of tasks youβd give a new employee are ideal for automation. Let the intern (or AI) do 70% of the work, like research and a rough draft. Then complete the final 30% by giving feedback (or improving your prompts), and finalizing and publishing the draft.
Based on a typical SEO intern job description, these are some examples of tasks that could be automated:
Other ideas to find automation opportunities:
Automation wonβt fix these core challenges:
One of the first things I automated was the team content calendar, or at least the first draft.
I used UNIQUE, MAXIFS, IFERROR, and VLOOKUP formulas to paste different reports into a master sheet and generate a list of which pages were due for an update based on our update schedule. Some SEO experts suggest most content should be refreshed at least every 1-2 years, especially since LLMs favor freshness signals.
Add a performance audit with some VLOOKUPs, and put it all in a custom GPT to complete your draft. Then tweak your draft based on your goals and strategy.
Prompt exampleΒ
LoginBased on the sitemap, performance report, and last quarterβs content plan, give me a table of the pages that are due for an update. Include columns for the URL, title, writer assigned, sessions, bounce, conversion rate, and notes.
Now add to the table the list of pages from the performance report that have dropped more than 30% in sessions or conversion rate. For any pages that are also in the previous update list, add the performance data to the notes column, but donβt include it as a separate row. Format it like this: Sessions -XX% L90D, conversion rate -XX% L90D.Time saved: 8 hours per quarter.
While Ahrefs and Semrush content gap analysis reports are helpful, they can also include a ton of data to wade through. Thereβs often irrelevant info, such as branded keywords you donβt want to target.
AI can help generate keywords and prompts for you to track or target. To get LLM prompt ideas, start with some of your longest-tail keywords, which you can find in Google Search Console by exporting all keywords to a page and sorting by length. Then ask AI tools to refine your list and generate similar ones.
One watchout: AI tools often struggle to understand user intent, short- vs. long-tail queries, and when to target specific keywords tied to intent.
For example, it may suggest targeting the word βcatsβ on a local vet website homepage. While that word may appear often across pages, itβs not necessarily one you want to target. Youβre unlikely to rank for the βcatsβ SERP or AIO for a small local site, but you could rank for βcat vetβ or βcat care.β
Prompt exampleΒ
Youβre an SEO analyst working on an update for this page. Using this Ahrefs report with competitor page analysis and keywords, identify the 20 most important keywords our page should target, ranked by MSV and relevance, and include those numbers with each keyword in a table.
Donβt suggest targeting any branded keywords. Then give me a list of 10 ways youβd improve this page to better target the keyword, and why, with exact quotes from the copy youβd change.Time saved: 15 minutes per page.
Internal links to your top pages are important for site crawling. The simplest way to automate internal linking is to export an Ahrefs backlink report that shows pages with few internal links, then input that with your sitemap into a GPT. Donβt select βGroup Similar Linksβ so all URLs appear in the same report.
Ahrefs also has a feature for internal link ideas. Itβs not great at suggesting pages with slightly different intent, but it can be a useful starting point for simple sites. Encourage your editorial team to use this workflow when working on drafts.
Prompt exampleΒ
Using this internal link report, sitemap link, and linking best practices documentation, suggest 5-10 pages I could link to. Only include pages with fewer than 10 internal links. Include only highly relevant pages. Donβt include any pages with βauthorβ or βaboutβ in the URL.Time saved: 10 minutes per page.
If your team works from outlines, briefs, or tickets, start by documenting a basic template for different tasks. Then set up a GPT to create stronger outlines and even add alerting.
For example, input a template or content brief example into an AI tool, along with an example page, then add specifics based on the draft your writer or freelancer is working on. You can save additional time by linking your keyword research or internal linking GPT to fill in intent gaps.
A good rule of thumb: Each custom GPT should have one major focus, then link to supporting GPTs. This avoids creating bloated tools that arenβt effective across multiple requests.
Automation example:
Time saved: 20 minutes per ticket.
If you deal with strict compliance or frequent legal reviews, work with those teams to create a custom business GPT. Let writers run high-risk drafts through it to catch simple issues before final review.
Prompt exampleΒ
Does this page use the correct terminology for the client? Highlight passages that go against editorial, compliance, and brand standards. Include a one-sentence explanation, a citation, and page number from the standards, and three better alternatives.
Time saved: 10 minutes per page.
Manual data validation is time-consuming. There are simpler ways to analyze and flag anomalies automatically.
For example, use conditional formatting in Sheets to highlight rows with more than a 10% deviation, or apply a color scale.
You can also use a GPT to diagnose why data doesnβt match across reports or align with your test hypothesis.
Prompt exampleΒ
Review this page performance report and data troubleshooting guidelines. Identify rows that skew the average the most. Export a table with those rows, and include a column explaining why each may cause issues and how to investigate further.Time saved: 1 hour per 100 rows.
When creating or optimizing content, write or edit title tags and meta descriptions from scratch. Even if Google rewrites metadata in the SERP, it still helps signal what the page is about.
To optimize metadata, review top-performing combinations on similar pages. CTR is useful, though higher-ranking pages often get higher CTR regardless.
For schema, such as review or FAQ, manual creation increases the risk of errors. Even if schema isnβt automated, you can use formulas to generate it, then validate after publishing.
Prompt example
Youβre a website writer updating a page. Turn these FAQs into a valid FAQ schema using the sample provided. Remove unnecessary formatting, keep links, and convert bullets into paragraphs.Time saved: 10 minutes.
If you use HTML, inline CSS, or shortcodes, automate as much as possible to reduce errors and inconsistency.
The simplest approach is using Excel or Sheets functions to concatenate code and content or format tables for your CMS.
For more advanced needs, create a formatting GPT that applies best practices and suggests improvements.
One watchout: If your AI tool canβt read live pages, youβll need to paste the code first.
Prompt example
Using the formatting reference and brand guidelines, format this page using best practices. Include links, tables, CTAs, and engagement elements. Then check for issues like incorrect wording, missing closing tags, or stray brackets.Time saved: 15 minutes per page
Automation doesnβt need to be complex or take time away from other work. The time savings compound with repeated use, freeing your team to focus on strategic work that requires human judgment.
Encourage your team to identify ways to reduce manual effort and experiment with custom GPTs to streamline repetitive tasks.
Earlier this week, Xbox's new chief executive officer, Asha Sharma, took the first of what we'd later learn would be a couple of big swings with how the Xbox brand is evolving under her purview by decreasing the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and confirming that brand-new Call of Duty games will not launch directly into Game Pass anymore. But a new report claims that there will be more than enough of the long-running military shooter to go around. A report from PC Gamer claims that we'll start seeing older titles from the franchise make their way onto Xbox [β¦]
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$INTC is massively up after beating revenue guidance for Q1 '26 and posting strong guidance for Q2. Foundry and DCAI both showed healthy growth over the last quarter, while Client Computing slumped slightly due to inflationary pressures and the ongoing RAM crisis. Some might say that the explosive growth in Intel's stock price isn't justified by its results this quarter. After reviewing Intel's earnings call, I personally disagree. Here are the most important quotes from the call. Intel Foundry - 18A Beating Internal Yield Projections, 14A Development Going Smoothly "We have made steady progress with Intel 4 and Intel 3, [β¦]
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Intel announced that its ZAM memory project, which is being developed with SoftBank's subsidiary, SAIMEMORY, has received a big boost from Japan. Japan Accelerates The 3.5-Year Development Plan of ZAM, A Memory Revolution By Intel & SoftBank In its latest presser, Intel Kabushiki Kaisha (Intel K.K.) and SoftBank Corp. subsidiary SAIMEMORY have unveiled that Japan's NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization) has now selected ZAM, a next-generation memory standard which is being seen as an HBM replacement. With the selection of ZAM by NEDO, the program will fund the project through government subsidies, accelerating its development to address [β¦]
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Today, April 24, 2026, is the one-year anniversary of the launch of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the game that immediately catapulted to being one of the most beloved and talked about games of 2025. It went on to earn more GOTY awards than any other game (the most recent of which was awarded last week) and has now reached over 8 million copies sold, according to developer Sandfall Interactive. Sandfall announced the milestone on the game's official X (formerly Twitter) account, thanking players for the support they have given Sandfall and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 since the RPG launched last [β¦]
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Google documents deep link best practices and signals robots.txt doc expansion. The EU proposes Google share search data with rivals and AI chatbots.
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Intel Foundry reports growing yields and strong 14A progress Intel has reported its Q1 2026 financials, with revenue growth, margin expansion, and higher earnings. For Intel Foundry, Intel has reported βimproved output and productivityβ with its Intel 7, 3, and 3 lithography nodes. Additionally, Intel has reported βprogress ahead of expectationsβ on Intel 18A and [β¦]
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Thereβs a common misconception that GEO is a technical problem.
Just scroll through LinkedIn or X for 30 seconds, and youβll find the next viral GEO hack.Β
But most of these tactics have limited impact because they donβt address how LLMs actually decide which brands to recommend.Β
GEO performance is shaped less by technical tweaks and more by how consistently your brand is positioned, categorized, and validated across the web.
If GEO performance is driven by positioning and consensus, itβs no surprise that many widely promoted tactics fall short.
Just search [GEO tactics for LLM visibility], and youβll see the same tired ideas.Β
The recommendations below arenβt wrong, but theyβre mostly table stakes. Many have misinterpreted this advice and taken these ideas to extremes.
Googleβs own documentation recommends implementing FAQs with schema.Β
But all the hype around FAQs for GEO has led brands to make poor choices about which FAQs to include in their content.Β
Instead of answering questions that actually matter, they end up slapping useless questions at the bottom of the page because they think it βhelps with GEO.β
Meanwhile, it accomplishes nothing for the end user. Hereβs one such example:
Another glorified tactic that isnβt inherently bad, but the upside is overhyped.Β
Short answer summaries can improve readability for humans, but thereβs no strong public evidence that a βkey takeawaysβ block materially improves AI visibility on its own.Β
This would mean forcing every page into rigid Q&A patterns, stuffing bullet points into every section, and jamming HTML tables into sections where they donβt belong.Β
Some assume LLMs need heavy formatting assistance in order to retrieve content, so they resort to copywriting tricks like βchunkingβ which can overcomplicate the editorial process.Β
Dig deeper: How to chunk content and when itβs worth it
Others are obsessed with chasing Reddit for GEO, and itβs causing brands to spam Reddit.
This is bad for countless reasons already outlined by Eli Schwartz, but it further supports the argument that GEO isnβt a technical problem.Β
Reddit represents the voice of real people, and thatβs why moderators are vigilantly hunting down inauthentic activity like astroturfing or βSEO shapingβ on threads where software evaluation is happening.Β
GEO is a strategic issue at the executive level, not anΒ SEOΒ issue at the operational level.
The biggest GEO upside doesnβt come from technical optimization β but rather, the coordination of brand positioning, messaging, and reputation management across on-site and off-site channels.Β
Everyone assumes the SEO team should be 100% responsible for all aspects of GEO, yet they control only a limited portion of how LLMs form their opinions of a brand.
| SEO team | On-site content pages, blogs, comparison guides, resource pages, etc.Β |
| Brand team / PMM | Homepage messaging, product pages, solutions pages, pricing.Β |
| PR team | External validation, press, and news.Β |
| Partnerships | Affiliates, analysts, resellers, etc.Β |
| Customer marketing | Reddit, social media, and review websites.Β |
Ross Hudgens recently posted about this problem. If none of these sources aligns with a consistent narrative, it will be challenging for LLMs to reach a consensus about your brand.Β
Letβs examine [best AI SDR agents] where Coldreach has the No. 1 ranking position with an AI citation.Β
Despite a high web ranking plus earning the URL citation, thereβs no recommendation for their brand regarding the best AI SDR agents.Β
This tactic worked phenomenally well during the traditional SEO golden era when rankings and clicks were the goal.Β
AI, beingΒ the great normalizer,Β has reduced the effectiveness of this playbook dramatically.Β
The main difference between SEO vs GEO is that you canβt bulldoze your way into brand recommendations for a topic your brand lacks recognition for.Β
We just saw that above with the best AI SDR agents example.Β
Hereβs another example: [best insider threat management] where the URL citations are earned by Exabeam, SpyCloud, and Pathlock.
None of these brands is recommended in the answer summary, yet they are all deploying listicles.
AI is the great neutralizer of this tactic, since it just scrapes and summarizes their listicles and recommends every other brand.Β
This is another reason why reporting on βcitationsβ as a GEO success metric is a failure in isolation, given that thereβs no corresponding brand recommendation.
Instead, the AI Overview recommends the brands that actually deserve to be there, such as Teramind, Proofpoint, DTEX, etc.Β
Despite the unavoidable element of randomness in AI answers, you should reverse-engineer how LLMs piece together information about your brand.Β
Start with bottom of funnel prompts like:
Then evaluate the answers and sources systematically.Β
New research by Kevin Indig found that web search position has the greatest impact on LLM citation rates.Β This is further validation that GEO is fundamentally connected to traditional SEO, as LLMs rely on web search (grounding) to generate answer summaries, especially for bottom-of-funnel product evaluation queries.Β
The key takeaway is that if your pages arenβt ranking highly in traditional SEO, third parties and external websites may control the narrative about your brand.Β
Itβs useful to understand which product categories are dominated by third parties versus first-party so you can prioritize marketing efforts accordingly.Β
In this example of [best employee monitoring software], the brand recommendation rate is around 90% meanwhile the citation rate is around 15%.Β
This suggests the brand is well covered across third-party pages where LLMs are extracting relevant information.Β
If we examine the SERP, itβs clear that third-party sources account for the overwhelming majority of citations.Β
Citations are coming from affiliates such as Business.com, CurrentWare, PC Mag, Gartner, and other reputable sources.Β
The key takeaway: if your brand wants to compete in high-volume categories, you may be forced to play the affiliate game.Β
Technical website hygiene still matters. If you have a vibe-coded, JavaScript-heavy website with poor internal linking and flat architecture, youβre unlikely to perform well in GEO.Β
Things like XML sitemaps, page indexing, site taxonomy, and internal linking structure are still crucial for retrieval-augmented generation and training data ingestion.Β
However, these are the fundamental pillars of SEO that only create the foundation for GEO to be built upon, rather than accelerating GEO itself.Β
GEO is a brand positioning and category alignment exercise, not a technical SEO audit.Β
The core GEO problem is whether LLMs believe your brand belongs in the answer.Β
LLMs need to reach consensus on your brand, shaped by reputation, category alignment, and repeated confirmation across the web.Β
Technical SEO provides the foundation, but it doesnβt help LLMs reach a conclusion about your brandβs market positioning.Β
The bigger opportunity is to align messaging across every surface that influences how LLMs interpret your brand and why it deserves to be recommended.Β
That means GEO isnβt a siloed optimization problem, but rather an ecosystem visibility problem.
Itβs time to stop chasing GEO hacks, because AI is neutralizing ineffective and outdated techniques once and for all.Β
Google updated its spam report page for the second time in the past week or so, this time to say that if you include personally identifying information, the spam report will not be processed or used. This comes just a week after Google said that information would be used and passed along to the reported site.
What changed. Google posted on its spam report page a new highlight box which says two points:
(1) Donβt include personally identifying information in your spam report.
(2) If you do include personally identifying information, then Google wonβt process your submission.
The text block reads:
βDonβt include any personally identifying information in your submission. To comply with regulations, we must send the submission text to the site owner to help them understand the context of a manual action, if one is issued. Because of this, we wonβt process your submission if we determine it contains personally identifying information to protect privacy. Not including such information fully ensures your information is safe and prevents your submission from being discarded.β
What was before. As we covered about a week ago, Google said then:
This caused a lot of concern in the industry, not just from fear of being caught calling out your competitors or spammers. But also for legal concerns. Googleβs new wording above says this is now to βcomply with regulationsβ where I guess it canβt share personally identifying information.
Why we care. If you want to submit a successful spam report, make sure to not include any personally identifying information. And if you do include personally identifying information by accident, you do not have to worry that the information will be passed along to the reported site. The spam report will just not be processed at all and you can resubmit it.
Whether you lead a scaling brand or an established global enterprise, you already know the frustration. Youβre watching massive digital budgets yield diminishing returns, while agile disruptors consistently beat you to the punch.
When you audit the citations within AI Overviews, ChatGPT responses, and Claude summaries, the reality is stark. Smaller, faster competitors are claiming more of the most lucrative, bottom-of-funnel commercial queries.
Itβs time to challenge the outdated assumption that legacy domain authority is enough to protect your pipeline. Weβve entered an era where operational agility often beats legacy brand equity.
AI models demand rapid, machine-readable data to establish a verifiable consensus. Enterprise red tape, what we call the βbureaucracy tax,β is actively preventing established brands from deploying these assets.
You didnβt build this red tape intentionally. As your business scaled, stability simply choked out agility.
When deployment speeds are slow, marketing teams inevitably blame legal, risk, or compliance. However, in highly regulated sectors, rigorous compliance is completely non-negotiable.
The operational failure isnβt the legal team; the failure is what marketing is sending them. To win the AI search race, you must completely decouple your factual data from your marketing narrative.
Hereβs the human truth of corporate risk: Lawyers argue over adjectives, not APIs. Legal departments take months to review creative copywriting and subjective marketing claims (e.g., βWe are the fastest, most innovative solutionβ).
On the other hand, they can review a static, factual data table, a product specification sheet, or a pricing index in a matter of days.
Consider a global payments company trying to capture AI search traffic for enterprise payment gateways. Legal will immediately block a 2,000-word marketing post titled βThe most secure way to process paymentsβ β itβs a compliance nightmare.
But if that same marketing team builds a βTransaction fee and API uptime matrixβ that simply aggregates factual processing costs and server SLAs into a structured table, legal signs off in 24 hours.Β
When a CFO asks Perplexity, βCompare enterprise payment gateway fees,β the AI bypasses the competitorβs blocked blog post and cites your factual matrix as the definitive answer.
Dig deeper: Why most SEO failures are organizational, not technical
The bureaucracy tax is a measurable, devastating hit to your P&L.
Consider the standard deployment cycle for an established enterprise. A new strategic initiative requires a brief, creative production, legal review, compliance sign-off, and an IT staging ticket. This often results in a sluggish 180-day cycle from ideation to publication.
When a major industry shift occurs, such as a sudden change in regional shipping tariffs, the AI consensus is entirely up for grabs.
Imagine youβre a global shipping company. While your 1,500-word thought leadership piece on βNavigating APAC supply chain changesβ is sitting in a three-week IT staging queue, an agile mid-market logistics disruptor publishes a simple, structured βCurrent freight delay and tariff matrix.β
The LLM scrapes the matrix, establishes it as the consensus, and instantly captures the most lucrative, high-intent logistics leads of the quarter. They get the revenue, while you get a Jira notification saying your staging ticket has been updated.
To quantify this, we analyzed the AI citation share of top global brands across ChatGPT-4, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. By tracking the original publish dates of their digital assets against the AIβs preferred recommendations for high-value commercial queries, a brutal algorithmic truth emerged: recency can beat relevancy.
When a market shift occurs, disruptors who deploy structured data within 14 days capture, on average, a 32% higher share of AI voice than legacy competitors who take 180 days to publish similar insights, even if the legacy brand has a higher traditional domain authority.
For the slower enterprise, this isnβt a temporary dip in traffic. That deficit takes an average of nine months and $120,000 in defensive paid media to win back. Youβre bleeding capital every single day your content sits in an approval queue.
Dig deeper: How to build an enterprise SEO strategy that actually gets buy-in
To understand why established brands are losing this race, you must look at the underlying technology. Many marketing teams are trapped on monolithic, legacy CMS platforms.
Generative engine optimization (GEO) requires the constant, rapid deployment of complex JSON-LD schema markup and proprietary data tables. If your marketing team has to submit an IT ticket just to update an author tag, the disruptor has already won.
The solution isnβt to go rogue and build insecure shadow IT. Instead, you must negotiate a schema-locked GEO template.Β
Go to your CIO or lead developer and negotiate one single IT sprint to build a rigid, unbreakable CMS template designed exclusively for data.
Picture a proprietary βcomparison engineβ for a consumer electronics brand. IT builds the template once, stripping out all design flexibility. Marketing never touches the code.
Instead, a marketer simply fills in three backend text boxes:Β
The template automatically wraps those inputs in perfect JSON-LD schema, specifically injecting Dataset, SoftwareApplication, and ItemList markup that LLMs actively hunt for, and renders a clean HTML table.
IT loves it because marketing canβt break the site architecture. Marketing loves it because they can spin up 50 competitor comparison pages in a single afternoon, feeding LLMs exactly what they need.
Donβt try to change your entire corporate culture; just build a fast track. Create an AI-readiness pod. This is a cross-functional alignment consisting of one technical SEO lead, 10% of a developerβs sprint capacity, and a dedicated compliance liaison who only reviews data, not copy.
Dig deeper: Why governance maturity is a competitive advantage for SEO
You must engineer workflows that satisfy your risk officers and your CTO while radically accelerating your speed to market. Use these strategic frameworks to protect your AI consensus:
The rules of digital acquisition have fundamentally changed. The biggest budget doesnβt guarantee victory. The fastest route to machine-readable consensus wins.
You can no longer afford to let legacy infrastructure and misaligned compliance workflows dictate your market share. The bureaucracy tax is an unforced error thatβs quietly draining your bottom-line revenue.
Ruthlessly audit your deployment timelines tomorrow morning. Stop treating GEO as a traditional marketing campaign, and start treating it as a high-velocity data operation.
Dismantle your own red tape and empower your teams to become the undeniable, cited authority at the exact moment the consumer asks the machine a question.
AMD EXPO 1.2 is launching soon, and with it, some new features, along with support for Chinese DDR5 memory, are being added too. AMD EXPO 1.2 Enables Support For Chinese DDR5 Memory Makers To Tackle DRAM Shortages & Increasing Prices New information about EXPO 1.2 comes from 1usmus, the author of HYDRA, CTR, and DRAM calculator for Ryzen, & leaker chi11eddog. The new information covers various aspects of the new memory tech, which is anticipated soon. Starting with the details, AMD EXPO 1.2 will be adding support for module geometry, allowing users to mix and match various memory capacities. But [β¦]
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Yesterday, Kwalee announced the release date of Luna Abyss, the stylish bullet hell first-person shooter game in development at internal studio Kwalee Labs (previously known as Bonsai Collective). The single player title will be released on May 21, 2026 for Xbox Series S|X, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud Gaming (with Game Pass), PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, and PlayStation 5. I previously interviewed Creative Director Benni Hill and Production Director Hollie Emery to discuss the game's intriguing visual style and gameplay influences. David played the updated demo (which is still available on Steam, if you want to [β¦]
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WebDYI combines website, booking, payments, and calendar sync in one platform built for service businesses. Create a branded site in minutes, offer 24/7 online booking with automatic reminders, and take payments that go straight to your account with zero commission. Two-way Google Calendar sync prevents conflicts, while a unified dashboard tracks revenue and performance. Use built-in local SEO to rank for nearby searches.
Tuco helps B2B sales teams send iMessages at scale from their CRM, reaching leads on the channel that gets three times more replies. It triggers instant texts when a lead expresses interest, runs follow-up sequences, tracks delivery and read receipts, and syncs everything to HubSpot, Salesforce, and more. An AI auto-reply handles FAQs and bookings, and SMS fallback ensures reach when contacts donβt use iMessage.
Ubisoft updates The Crew 2βs offline mode to add liveries and statistics After releasing their βHybrid Modeβ for The Crew 2 in October, which makes the game playable offline, Ubisoft has released its first major update for the new game mode. Until now, The Crew 2βs offline mode lacked a βMy Liveryβ menu, which prevents [β¦]
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During the Nintendo Switch generation, Nintendo had no trouble delivering a steady stream of first-party games created using what is likely a reliable pipeline. Often, we have heard how the Japanese company likes to sit on completed games for months, only to release them when deemed appropriate, but this could become a thing of the past moving forward as the Japanese company's studios focus on the Nintendo Switch 2, according to what former employees Kit and Krysta revealed during their podcast. "That totally happened, though in the past where a lot of these things they just socked away in the [β¦]
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There's a high-stakes game of chicken afoot at Samsung, with its management and unionized workers both trying to strengthen their hand via a series of moves and countermoves ahead of a planned showdown next month. Even so, Samsung workers appear to have won the latest round by successfully disrupting nearly a fifth of the output at the highly mechanized Samsung memory fabs as well as nearly three-fifths of the output at the more labor intensive foundry lines. Samsung workers recently managed to curtail output at the tech behemoth's memory fabs and foundry lines by 18.4 percent and 58.1 percent, respectively [β¦]
Read full article at https://wccftech.com/samsung-braces-for-unprecedented-chaos-after-union-rally-knocks-out-58-of-foundry-output-in-a-single-day/
HitPaw VikPea is an AI video enhancer that upscales footage to 4K/8K, sharpens details, reduces noise, and repairs damaged clips. It restores low-light and old videos, improves colors with automatic correction and colorization, and stabilizes shaky shots with frame interpolation up to 60 FPS. Use cloud GPU acceleration for 10x faster rendering, batch process multiple files, and export without re-encoding common formats. Available on Windows, Mac, and mobile, VikPea also offers an API to integrate pro-grade enhancement into your workflow.
Google updated their spam reporting tool to warn they won't process reports that contain personal information.
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Intel says that optimisation is critical for modern PC games β Software is holding back hardware Intelβs Robert Hallock has been discussing PC game optimisation and its impact on modern CPU performance. He argues that software optimisation plays a much larger role than it did before, and that PC gamers underestimate its impact. In an [β¦]
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David Zinsner, Intel CFOIntel Foundry operating loss in Q1 was $2.4 billion, improved $72 million quarter-over-quarter as better yields across Intel 4, Intel 3, and 18A drove higher gross margins. This was mostly offset by increased operating expenses associated with an intentional step-up in Intel 14A investments to support both internal and external customer evaluations. As a reminder, Intel Foundry carries the bulk of the cost associated with the early ramp of Intel 18A, and we expect Intel Foundry's operating loss to improve through the year as 18A continues to ramp into volume and yields improve further. Within the quarter, Intel Foundry delivered output above our expectations, drove steady improvements in yields, and met key 14A milestones.
Until the PlayStation 5 era, Sonyβs strategy was focused on delivering first-party games that stayed on the console to drive hardware sales. However, in a new interview with Back Pocket conducted during ALT. Games, where he also detailed how his 11-year PlayStation Studios run ended with Jim Ryan firing him, former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida revealed that the change in strategy was essentially forced by increasing AAA budgets, and actually helped the development of all first-party titles. βWhen I was working on the game development side, first-party at PlayStation, from the strategy standpoint, we are not allowed to bring our [β¦]
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A price freezeΒ is already rumored to be a part of the iPhone 18Β launch discussion, with Apple expected to become the most popular smartphone maker in the world if it doesnβt make its upcoming devices pricier due to the ongoing DRAM shortage. However, thatβs not the only reason why the companyβs upcoming flagship series could pick up in droves, because the Cupertino firm is reportedly planning a swath of chip and memory upgrades, including bringing its first 2nm SoCs to market, the A20 and A20 Pro. The iPhone 18 could ship with 12GB RAM as standard, with Apple also planning to [β¦]
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Gang of Dragon, the new game by YAKUZA creator Toshihiro Nagoshi, might be in serious danger of being canceled. As spotted on Reddit, the official YouTube channel and trailers have been suddenly deleted. The Steam page is still up, though, the last flicker of hope that the game's development might continue. Gang of Dragon was unveiled just a few months ago, at The Game Awards 2025, but it was admittedly already in trouble. After his departure from SEGA in 2021, Nagoshi founded a new studio with NetEase's help the following year. However, in early 2025, reports began circulating that NetEase [β¦]
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ASUS has become the first motherboard maker to enable AMD's next-gen EXPO 1.2 technology support on its X870 motherboards, bringing faster DDR5 memory standards to Ryzen platforms. ASUS First To Land AMD EXPO 1.2 Memory Technology Support on Its X870 Motherboards: Offers CUDIMM & Ultra Low-Latency DDR5 Support ASUS has released its new "2301" BETA BIOS, which includes one big feature that will be coming to current and upcoming AM5 motherboards: support for AMD EXPO 1.2. This technology will play an important role when coupled with the next-gen Ryzen "Zen 6" CPU family. Currently, the EXPO 1.2 support is in [β¦]
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It looks like the rumored new Game Pass tier will be officially called Xbox Game Pass Starter Edition. The leak came from the Discord datamining GitHub, and that's because, apparently, this version of Game Pass will soon be bundled with the Discord Nitro subscription. The following lines were discovered by the dataminers: This is supposedly the Triton/Duet tier that was previously datamined via Xbox Cloud Gaming by @redphx, the author of Better xCloud, a free and open-source tool that improves the Xbox Cloud Gaming and Remote Play experiences. In fact, Redphx also spotted the Xbox Game Pass Starter Edition name [β¦]
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Assassinβs Creed Black Flag is getting a full remake on PC and current-gen consoles Ubisoft has officially unveiled Assassinβs Creed Black Flag Resynced, a full remake of 2013βs Assassinβs Creed Black Flag. The game is due to launch on PC, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on July 9th, with the PC version coming to the [β¦]
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Saros protagonist Arjun, for all of the scattered bits and pieces of his backstory that Housemarque dripfeeds to the player, is a pretty awful main character when you take a step back from the sci-fi mythology and look over his shoulder at the way he interacts with his colleagues and chases after his missing partner. Arjun is a flawed man with anger issues toward his father, which manifest in the brief backstory vignettes players stitch together over the course of death and rebirth. The entire time I spent on Carcosa in his standard-issue space boots was watching a man who [β¦]
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Intel has confirmed that it will have multiple internal chip tape-outs using the 14A process technology, which will be seen as the Foundry's cleverest move to date. Intel Wants More Customers To Use 14A, And What Best Way To Make It Possible By Exerting Confidence With Its Own Products Using the Technology. Intel has gained Tesla as a 14A customer, which is the Foundry's biggest win so far, and they also have multiple external customers lining up as the company finalizes its 0.9 PDK. But while the 14A interest is gaining momentum, Intel just added a multiplier to the equation, [β¦]
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Intel has officially announced that its 18AP and 14A nodes are seeing big customer engagements, with 14A already securing a win at Tesla. Intel 18AP & 14A Were Chipzilla's Biggest Bets, & They're Paying Off With Tesla Just Being The Beginning of What's To Come! During its Q1 2026 earnings call, Intel's CEO Lip-Bu Tan confirmed the recent partnership with Elon Musk's SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla to support the Terafab project. It was already confirmed that the 14A process tech will be deployed at TeraFab, marking a huge confidence boost for the chipmaker, which has spent years finding big names [β¦]
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Z970 could replace B860 as Intelβs next mainstream DIY motherboard chipset Intelβs Robert Hallock has confirmed that Intel wants to release βmore and moreβ unlocked CPUs. According to the leaker Jaykihn, Intel will also be promoting this with its next-generation motherboards, pushing its Z970 chiplet as the unofficial successor to B860. While B960 motherboards will [β¦]
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The ID@Xbox Spring Showcase 2026 featured its fair share of world premieres of upcoming games and new looks at previously announced indie titles, across multiple kinds of games at different scales. Similar to our round-ups of the Galaxies Spring Showcase and the Triple-I Initiative Showcase, this article will round-up all of the news and announcements from today's show, so you don't have to miss any of it. You can also check out the show below to take it all in, or look at the list of announcements to see which catches your eye. Everything Announced at ID@Xbox Spring Showcase 2026
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Minutes after we reported that Asha Sharma would be dropping the Microsoft Gaming brand and renaming the division back to just Xbox, and the significance of that change, Sharma shared a new Xbox Wire blog post that not only confirmed the change, but did so much more by laying out her and Matt Booty's plan for the next era of Xbox. In a letter sent within Microsoft titled, 'We Are Xbox,' Sharma and Booty, who are credited as co-authors on the letter, begin by explaining how Xbox "has always been different" since it joined the industry at the start of [β¦]
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OpenAI is beginning to show ads in ChatGPT to users who arenβt logged in β a move that could significantly increase available inventory as demand from advertisers grows.
Whatβs happening. Early reports suggest ads are now appearing seamlessly within conversations for unauthenticated users, even though OpenAI hasnβt formally announced the change. The ads are integrated into chat responses rather than displayed as traditional banners.
Why we care. By expanding ads to logged-out users, OpenAI increases available inventory, making it easier to spend budgets and reach more high-intent users. If this continues, ChatGPT could quickly become a more viable and competitive performance channel.
Zoom in. Advertisers in the pilot have struggled to spend due to low frequency and limited inventory, despite a reduced minimum buy-in (now around $50,000, down from $200,000). Increasing the eligible audience is one way to address that constraint.
User experience. Early feedback suggests ads are relatively unobtrusive, clearly labeled, and blended into the conversation flow β though minor UX quirks remain.
Between the lines. This is a supply problem, not a demand problem. Advertisers want in β OpenAI is now working to scale inventory to match.
What to watch. Whether OpenAI formalizes the rollout and continues expanding access, which will determine how quickly ChatGPT becomes a viable, scalable ad channel.
Bottom line. Opening ads to logged-out users could be the unlock ChatGPT needs to turn advertiser interest into meaningful spend.
Another hike has been implemented, which makes buying SSDs even more difficult than ever. Samsung and Kingston Increase Price of All SSD Products by Around 10%, Marking Another Significant Price Hike When Prices are Unusually High Remember the Micro Center shelves, which were fully stacked by the high-end SSDs selling for thousands of dollars? Yeah, they are about to get even more expensive. This thing isn't stopping anytime soon and we don't know how long this will continue, as at hundreds of dollars for 1 TB of SSD storage, it is becoming super difficult to build a budget gaming PC. [β¦]
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Update 23/04/2026: Minutes after reporting on this change, a letter sent internally within Xbox, co-authored by chief executive officer Asha Sharma and chief content officer Matt Booty, was published on the Xbox Wire blog. It not only confirmed the name change and the sunsetting of the Microsoft Gaming brand but also laid out a new plan for the next era of Xbox. Read the full article here. Original Story: Asha Sharma, the recently installed chief executive officer at Microsoft Gaming who has already been taking some big swings by decreasing the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate has reportedly just [β¦]
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As AI computing capacity continues to grow, an expert from computing infrastructure provider Nebius sat with AlphaSense to describe the state of the industry. While NVIDIA's leading-edge AI GPUs remain the top in the industry when it comes to performance, the expert believes alternatives are growing in popularity, particularly as the industry shifts its cost metrics. The demand for AI computing capacity also remains high, as providers can easily run at 100% utilization rates to drive down costs and earn the most from their investment. Alternatives To NVIDIA Chips Grow In Popularity As Industry Shifts Towards Cost Per Million Tokens [β¦]
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Project ATOM was first revealed last year as a new cozy free-to-play party platformer from developer JNG Studio. Now, during today's ID@Xbox Spring Showcase 2026 event, it's still a cozy free-to-play party platformer, but it has an official title, as it is now called Totopia. Developer JNG Studio also confirmed that the game's first public beta playtest will take place next month, starting on May 7, 2026. Totopia is really trying to be a flavour of an 'everything' game, as it combines life sim mechanics and a cartoon visual style with party platforming and a healthy dose of chaos to [β¦]
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Death Standing 2 receives further Steam Deck optimisations alongside new fixes Update 1.5 has been released for Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, further optimising the game for Valveβs Steam Deck handheld while delivering various other improvements. Nixxes and Kojima Productions have confirmed that further improvements to the game are currently in the works. Death [β¦]
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Today, Funcom announced Conan Exiles Enhanced, a free upgrade that brings the game from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5. Conan Exiles Enhanced will launch on the game's eighth anniversary: May 5, 2026. The upgraded version was developed in collaboration with Inflexion Games, the studio behind the survival game Nightingale. Conan Exiles Enhanced introduces four specific rendering improvements: The Enhanced version targetsΒ smooth 60+ FPSΒ across Low, Medium, High, and Ultra settings on most PCs, with Steam DeckΒ support. Notably, despite the graphics improvements, the client size has beenΒ dramatically reduced from 120GB to just 40GB. But there's more: the Exiled Lands and [β¦]
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We've been hearing rumors of Halo Studios looking to add a battle royale mode to the Halo franchise, either as a new individual title or as a game mode in a larger game, for years now. Whether it was actually the case or not, to players, the idea of a Halo battle royale always seemed like Xbox trying to chase one of the most popular genre trends in the video game industry. That seems to be the same thing driving the latest rumor about what's coming next from Halo Studios, which claims that the battle royale mode has pivoted to [β¦]
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The demand for Apple Macs is off the proverbial rocker right now, so much so that people are apparently managing to sell specific Mac Studio versions for an insane $25,000 on websites that specialize in retailing used products. People are paying insane premiums for used M3 Ultra 512GB Apple Mac Studio devices when you can still get 256GB variants from Apple at a fraction of those list prices As is evident from the above X post, the 512GB variants of the M3 Ultra Apple Mac Studio devices are currently going for as much as $25,000 on websites that specialize in [β¦]
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Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced can comfortably be described as the worst-kept secret in gaming history, with its long story of rumors and leaks of all kinds. The official reveal is here at last, though, and it's juicy. The presentation opened with Matt Ryan (who was among the "leakers" last year), the voice actor of protagonist Edward Kenway, confirming thatΒ Assassin's Creed Black Flag ResyncedΒ is aΒ faithful remake, not a reinvention. It is entirely rebuilt from the ground up using theΒ latest version of Ubisoft's Anvil engineΒ while preserving the original story and character arc. Notably, the original game will remain available after the [β¦]
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AMD's Ex-FSR Lead has claimed that most team members who worked on FSR 4 & were part of the FidelityFX and GPUOpen teams left the company to join NVIDIA or Intel. AMD's FSR Shortcomings May Be Due To Its Members Leaving The Company To Join NVIDIA or Intel Recently, there has been a lot of chatter regarding AMD's FSR support on older GPUs. While the latest FSR Redstone release and the updated FSR 4.1 release were seen as big and positive updates, at the same time, many users were disappointed in the lack of FSR 4 support for older generations [β¦]
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Google may expand its unsupported robots.txt rules list using HTTP Archive data and could broaden how it handles common misspellings of disallow.
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OpenAI's public crawler docs now list OAI-AdsBot, a bot that may visit pages submitted as ChatGPT ads to check policy compliance and ad relevance.
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Google adds view-through conversion optimization to Demand Gen and expands Commerce Media Suite support.
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Ready to resync? Ubisoft has confirmed that it will be hosting a βWorldwide reveal showcaseβ for Assassinβs Creed Black Flag Resynced today. The event will start at 5 PM BST, with Ubisoft saying that βThe Iconic Solo Pirate Adventure Returnsβ. If this statement is correct, we are unlikely to see any multiplayer modes for this [β¦]
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Google says AI isnβt killing Search β itβs changing how people use it and making them search more often. AI Overviews help filter out low-value clicks while driving more total searches, Googleβs VP of Search Liz Reid said in a new Bloomberg podcast interview.
On AI killing clicks. Reid said AI mostly cuts βbounceβ clicks β when users click a page, grab a quick fact, and leave.
People want AI and the web. Reid said AI wonβt replace websites β it works alongside them.
People use AI for quick answers, but still turn to the web for deeper information:
That includes opinions and human perspectives:
AI helps users get started, she said:
AI Overviews are query-dependent. AI Overviews donβt show up for every search. Google decides based on what helps the user. If AI doesnβt help, Google sticks with regular results.
Changing query behavior. People are searching in new ways. Queries are longer and more natural, Reid said.
Users are also shifting away from keywords.
Instead of simplifying queries, users now describe their full problem.
Ads are evolving. Google says it can still make money from Search β even with AI answers:
Many AI Overview queries were never monetized:
But when people want to buy something, clicks still matter:
Reid also suggested AI could improve ads by making queries more detailed:
And as search expands, so do opportunities:
What Google is watching. One key signal for Google is whether people return to Search more often.
Reid said thatβs a high bar:
Itβs not just about doing more searches β itβs about coming back more often:
AI Mode vs. Search vs. Gemini. Google isnβt putting everything in one place. Different tools serve different needs, and users move between them.
Search and AI Mode are often used for information.
Gemini is used more for writing and creative tasks.
AI Mode tends to handle more complex questions.
βAI slopβ is not new β ranking is the solution. Low-quality content isnβt new β AI just makes more of it, Reid said:
Reid said it doesnβt matter how much human/AI slop there is. Whatβs more important is whether Google can surface great web content while keeping the rate of spam and slop at a βvery low rate.β
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Traditional SEO metrics havenβt been good. We donβt need more studies to see whatβs happening, but the data confirms it.
Organic traffic is declining for most SEO clients right now. Seer Interactive found that organic CTR dropped 61% for queries with AI Overviews. Executives are watching their dashboards trend downward, often for months at a time.
Most consultants I talk to arenβt prepared for the conversations that come with it. Iβm not talking about the diagnostic part. Most of us can figure out why traffic dropped. I mean, the part where you sit across from a CMO and have to explain whatβs happening, why, and what you think the company should do about it. Thatβs a different skill entirely, and we donβt talk enough about it.
Iβve been in SEO for 13 years and have spent the last six running an agency where I personally lead client strategy and present results to senior executives at B2B SaaS companies. The following are the five things Iβve learned about delivering bad news in what is probably the hardest era in which to be an SEO consultant.
A few years ago, one of my B2B SaaS clients came to me with a concern I wasnβt expecting. They had gone into their analytics and looked specifically at the performance of our teamβs work, separated from the rest of the siteβs organic traffic.
The overall numbers we had been reporting looked fine. But when you isolated the work we were responsible for, the performance was flat. It had not grown at all since we started eight months prior.
I looked over the numbers myself, and the client was right.
When I dug into what had happened internally, the picture got worse. My team knew. They had seen that the work was underperforming, but they had made a decision many consultants make: they reported the numbers that looked good and avoided the ones that didnβt. Instead, they kept presenting overall traffic trends without flagging that our work specifically was not delivering.
Nobody wants to walk into a meeting and say, βThis didnβt work.β But hiding a failure is often worse than the failure itself. There are two reasons for this.
This experience changed how I run every client engagement. I started by rebuilding our reporting to isolate the performance of our own work from overall site trends, and then I implemented the rule that underperformance gets surfaced early, with a diagnosis attached.
Anecdotally, every executive I sit across from has been burned at least once by vendors who obscured their bad results. Itβs the consultant who surfaces problems early and brings a plan to fix it who is doing something genuinely rare.
Executives who reacted the worst to bad news were never the ones who received it directly. Instead, they were the ones who were left to discover it themselves, or who could tell that I was dancing around something and trying not to state the bad news directly.
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Early last year, a prospect came to me concerned about a traffic decline. Their internal team assumed AI Overviews were eating their clicks. It makes sense, since that seems to be the default explanation for every problem right now, and sometimes itβs correct.
But Iβve learned not to walk into a room with an assumption when I can walk in with a diagnosis. Before I said anything to the client, I had a look at their site myself. The first thing I wanted to see was whether there were actual keyword losses, and, if so, who replaced them.Β
These are two completely different situations that require completely different responses. I wanted to know which we were dealing with so that I could offer solutions from the get-go.
What I actually found was a third issue entirely. The client had run a major PR campaign over the summer that had created a huge traffic spike. The quarter-over-quarter comparison was measuring against that spike, making normal performance look like a decline.
When I pulled the timeline back further and compared pre-campaign to current, the trajectory was actually growth. It was just more stable growth than the spike had made everyone expect.
That diagnosis changed the entire conversation. Instead of walking in and explaining a traffic loss, I walked in and explained what the data actually showed. The client went from concerned to confident in about five minutes. But I wouldnβt have gotten there if I had accepted the surface-level read.
Other times, the diagnosis really is bad news. For example, I had another client with a genuine traffic problem, and, when I dug into it, I found that the cause was technical: a set of pages generating crawl waste that was dragging down the rest of the siteβs performance.
Luckily, I had seen this pattern before with another client and knew what the fix looked like. Because of that, I was able to come to the call and say:Β
That ability to diagnose builds trust from the onset of the project.
No executive needs to hear an explanation of crawl budgets or parameterized pages. They need to hear that youβve found the problem, that youβve seen it before, and that you have a plan. But you canβt say any of that unless youβve done the deep diagnostic work first.
The thing that builds confidence in the room isnβt your delivery. Instead, itβs the quality of the diagnosis and the specificity of the plan behind it.
There are two types of bad news you can end up delivering to a client, and the conversation you will end up having with your client depends entirely on which one youβre dealing with.
The first type is what I think of as surprise bad news. These kinds of problems often happen when the work has been running without a clear strategic structure. Youβve been doing the SEO work. Youβre finding opportunities, publishing content, optimizing pages, and staying busy.
But there has been something missing. There hasnβt been a defined plan with specific bets tied to specific outcomes. When traffic starts dipping and someone asks you what happened, youβre left in a difficult position. Why? Because you donβt have a clean way to diagnose what has happened. You werenβt testing a specific hypothesis. You were just doing work.
This happens way more frequently than most consultants would like to admit, especially when thereβs no structured review cycle in place. When youβre constantly in βfind more opportunitiesβ mode, everything feels productive until the numbers go in the wrong direction.
The second type of bad news you might have to deliver is regarding a failed experiment. This type is actually much easier to handle than surprises, even though the news might be just as bad.
A failed experiment means you had a plan. You told your clients something like:
And then it didnβt. But, because you planned it deliberately, that means that you can evaluate the outcome.Β
You can tell your client:Β
Almost every SEO consultant right now has to report traffic declines to their clients. Thatβs the reality of the market weβre in. Seer Interactiveβs study found that AI Overviews now correlate with a 61% reduction in click-through rates for organic search.Β
Yet, executives are seeing these numbers drop and still want to see growth. Youβre going to have to deliver that bad news regardless. The difference is whether:
The best protection against delivering bad news poorly isnβt better communication skills. Itβs working in structured cycles where every major effort is a deliberate bet with a defined expected outcome.Β
When something doesnβt work, youβre not delivering surprise bad news. Youβre reporting on an experiment that all parties were comfortable trying. Thatβs a conversation most executives are completely comfortable having. After all, they run their own teams the same way.
Once I shifted to this way of working with clients, I saw the dynamic in difficult conversations change fundamentally. But I also learned that, even when you have the right diagnosis and the right framing, when the executive hears the bad news matters almost as much as how they hear it.
Iβve sat in enough client meetings to know the exact moment a conversation turns. Itβs the moment after the bad news lands, and the client says, βOK, so what do we do now?β
If thereβs no answer ready, the room palpably changes. The bad news, which might have been completely manageable thirty seconds before, suddenly feels much worse.
The worst case is when the client finds the problem before anyone on your team does. Iβve seen it happen. The client goes into their analytics, spots a decline, brings it up, and now you, the consultant, are on your back foot.
No diagnosis. No theory about what caused it. Definitely no recommendation. Just scrambling to catch up on something that should have been caught first.
The diagnosis and the recommendation arenβt separate steps. Theyβre one thing. If youβve done a deep enough diagnosis to actually understand what happened, you almost always have a theory about what to do next. Showing up without a recommendation means you had not done thorough enough diagnostic work.
These days, before I get on any call where I am presenting something, I make sure Iβve thought through at least two paths forward. Not vague ideas. Concrete options with tradeoffs. I recommend one, explain why, and present the other as a real alternative. The client ends up choosing between solutions instead of sitting with a problem.
For example, I had a client whose legal team was blocking us from publishing comparison listicles, and the whole content strategy β that they had approved β had stalled. Instead of getting on a call with them and saying, βWe have a blocker,β I came in with two alternative approaches.
One approach was increasing outreach and placements on third-party listicles. The other was shifting the format entirely, and, instead, focusing on content like analyzing third-party reports in the clientβs field instead of creating our own comparison content. The client picked one, and we moved forward. The blocker barely registered because it was already paired with a way through it.
My strongest client relationships were almost never the ones where everything went smoothly. They were the ones where something went wrong, I handled it well, and the client came out of it with more confidence in me than before.
Many of the people these executives work with are spinning results or avoiding hard topics. When someone shows up and says, βThis didnβt work, here is why, and here is what I think we should do instead,β it stands out. Thereβs a difference between transparency that feels like data-dumping and transparency that feels like strategic intelligence. The first erodes trust. The second builds it.Β
I used to dread difficult months. Every hard conversation felt like a performance review of my work. After years of watching what actually happens when things go wrong, I now process those moments differently.
Why? Because a smooth month doesnβt illustrate to the client anything about how I operate under pressure. A hard month where I catch a problem, diagnose it, and come up with a plan tells them everything. Those are trust deposits, and they compound over time.
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SEO is getting harder, and, in many cases, the numbers are going to go in the wrong direction.
More of the work is happening in the conversation that follows. Explaining what happened, why, and what to do next isnβt a side skill anymore. Itβs a core part of the job.
That means showing up with a clear diagnosis, a point of view, and a plan. It means surfacing issues early, instead of waiting for someone else to find them. And it means treating every dip not just as a performance problem, but as a moment to demonstrate how you operate.
Because, increasingly, thatβs what clients are evaluating. Not just the results, but how you handle them.
Google is rolling out new Demand Gen updates in Google Ads, aimed at helping advertisers convert faster and capture more new customers across YouTube and beyond.
Whatβs happening. Demand Gen is now integrated into Commerce Media Suite, allowing advertisers to tap into retailersβ first-party catalog and conversion data to reach high-intent shoppers across YouTube, Discover, and Gmail.
At the same time, new view-through conversion (VTC) optimization lets campaigns prioritize conversions that happen after an ad is viewed β not just clicked β speeding up performance.
Why we care. these updates should make Demand Gen more effective at turning views into actual conversions. By using retailer data and optimizing for view-through activity, campaigns can capture more high-intent usersβeven if they donβt click. That means faster results and better new customer growth
Between the lines. Google is leaning into signals beyond clicks, using richer commerce data and view-based attribution to drive results in more passive, discovery-heavy environments like YouTube.
What to watch. Expect more Demand Gen announcements at upcoming events like Google Marketing Live, as YouTube continues to position itself as a full-funnel performance channel.
Bottom line. Google is turning Demand Gen into a faster, more data-driven engine for converting high-intent audiences β especially on YouTube.
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Google is quietly testing a new βApp Labsβ beta inside Google Ads, giving app advertisers early access to experimental campaign features before wider rollout.
Whatβs new. A dedicated tab within the App advertising hub where advertisers can try limited-time experiments, provide feedback, and explore tools still in development.
Why we care. Google is giving early access to experimental features in Google Ads before they roll out widely. That means a chance to test, learn, and optimize ahead of competitors. Those who adopt early can gain a performance edge and adapt faster as new tools become standard.
Zoom in. Features in App Labs are not guaranteed to launch permanently. Instead, they function as short-term tests, giving Google real-world input while offering advertisers a first-mover advantage.
Between the lines. This is effectively a sandbox for app campaigns β and a signal that Google wants more advertiser input earlier in the product cycle.
What to watch. Early adopters may gain performance advantages by testing and adapting to features before competitors even see them.
First seen. This update was first spotted by Google Ads expert β Thomas Eccel who shared spotting the update on LinkedIn.
Google has introduced new capabilities within its new customer acquisition goals, including high-value customer bidding and retention targeting.
Most Google Ads strategies still treat new customers as inherently more valuable. That assumption breaks down quickly.
Not every new customer is worth acquiring, and not every existing customer is worth ignoring. Just because someone buys once doesnβt make them a customer for life. Likewise, some past buyers are far more likely to convert again than a net-new user.
This is where Googleβs high-value customer and retention bidding goals start to matter.
Google uses predictive bidding to help determine who your high-value customers are. However, the primary signal is the customer match list you upload within your account.Β
To make these adjustments, go to the customer lifecycle optimization section under Goals > Summary, then select Edit goal.
Here, youβll set a higher new customer value to bid more aggressively for high-value customers. Google will typically pre-populate a suggested value based on a higher LTV than your typical new customers. Review this carefully and decide how much higher you want to bid for a high-value new customer.
Once you do this, Google reports that added amount as in-platform conversion value, on top of the actual value from the sale or lead. If you use a cost-per-conversion model, this discrepancy may not matter as much. However, for ROAS-based bidding, the additional value can artificially inflate your campaignβs ROAS.
Google recently introduced a new column, original conversion value (found under the conversions columns section), to help separate the actual value from the additional value used to prioritize bidding. However, if you typically rely on conversion value/cost, that figure will still include the added value in its reporting.
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To help Google identify high-value customers, youβll need to add an audience list of high-value customers.Β
Consider what qualifies a high-value customer to you when creating this list. Did they have a particularly high average order value, or were they a lead for a higher-tier service you offer?Β Compile this list and upload it.Β
Youβll need at least 1,000 active members in the YouTube or Search network for it to be eligible to serve, and we typically see match rates between 29%-62% β meaning youβll likely need well over 1,000 for the list to become eligible.Β
The more data you include for each record in your first-party data, the higher your match rate will typically be. An email address is the baseline, but adding email, phone, and address increases your chances of matching to a signed-in user.
If youβd prefer a less manual approach, you can create and define audiences in Klaviyo and integrate them directly into your Google Ads account. Lists created from Klaviyo typically have high match rates.
Once these settings are in place within the customer lifecycle optimization section, the next step is to optimize your campaigns. You canβt apply both bidding goals to the same campaign, and you wouldnβt want the same targeting or ad copy for these different customer types.
Adjusting your bidding for high-value new customers is only available in Search and Performance Max campaigns and follows a similar setup. In campaign settings, expand the Customer acquisition section and select Adjust your bidding to help acquire new customers.
From there, choose either Bid higher for new customers or Only bid for new customers. Either option uses your value adjustments to differentiate between new customers and high-value customers.Β
Your ad copy and targeting should determine whether you run a campaign focused solely on new customers or one that includes both new and returning customers.
To set bidding parameters for lapsed customers, or customer retention, return to the customer lifecycle optimization within the Goals section of the account. Scroll past the new customer section to find both lapsed customers and lapsed customers (high value).Β
These lists will only populate if you have segmented customer data to support both. Itβs worth noting that, for lapsed high-value customers, Google asks for data on existing high-value customers, suggesting predictive bidding to a lookalike audience may be used here as well.
Like before, Google will pre-populate a suggested value and may also suggest lists. Review these before saving to ensure the data is accurate. The additional value you add to the incremental conversion value will appear in certain columns as conversion value attributed to the campaign using this bidding model.
Bidding to lapsed customers is currently only available in Performance Max campaigns and isnβt yet available across Search. In campaign settings, go to Customer retention and select Adjust your bidding to help re-engage lapsed customers.
We donβt yet have a list defined for lapsed customers in the above account, which is why the message in the yellow box appeared.
Because this bidding is limited to Performance Max, lapsed customers may see ads across Search, Shopping, Display, YouTube, Discover, Gmail, and Maps, depending on the assets used and whether a feed is included.Β
If youβre running a campaign specifically bidding higher to target lapsed customers, make sure your ad copy and messaging are tailored to that audience.
Lifecycle bidding only works if your inputs are sound. The quality of your customer match lists, how you define value, and how you measure performance determine whether these goals improve results, or just make them look better on paper.
Used correctly, they help prioritize the customers that matter most and re-engage those worth winning back. Used loosely, they can just as easily distort your reporting and mask whatβs really driving performance.
Apple has had to perform a fine-tuned balancing act to optimize the number of features it can offer within its first foldable, tentatively dubbed the iPhone Ultra, against the physical constraints emanating from its desire to retain an overall slim profile. And now, as per the latest metal dummy units, those compromises apparently extend to the iPhone Ultra's lack of MagSafe charging support and a dedicated LED flash. Despite costing around $2,000, Apple's iPhone Ultra is likely to come without MagSafe charging support and an LED flash The tipster Vadim Yuryev has now leaked the metal dummy units for the [β¦]
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After telling the video game industry that they should "embrace AI like Iron Man's suit" in one interview, in another, this time with MobileGamer.Biz, the head of Google Cloud's games division, Jack Buser is claiming that the industry has actually already embraced AI-powered tools. Buser claims that "roughly nine out of ten game developers" told Google "yeah, we're using it," in a survey Google conducted during Gamescom 2026, asking developers if they are using AI-powered tools. Buser even went as far as to claim that players just don't realize that the games they are enjoying and love to play "right [β¦]
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Apple's unified memory advantages are now manifesting in a spectacular fashion, and when combined with a shrewd strategy of eschewing price hikes, the Cupertino-based tech giant is all set to become the only major OEM in the notebook space to record a meaningful growth in shipments this year. Apple's MacBook shipments to grow by 21.7 percent in 2026 even as global notebook sales are headed towards an year-over-year decline of 8 percent According to the market intelligence firm Sigmaintell, global notebook shipments in 2026 will amount to 181.1 million units, which corresponds to an year-over-year decline of 8 percent, and [β¦]
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Google has confirmed a bug with the Google Search Console performance reports that specifically impacts Β βJob listingβ and βJob detailsβ search appearance filter. Starting April 16th Google had an issue logging this data. So Google is reporting zero clicks and impressions for these jobs reports.
What Google said. Google wrote:
βA logging error is preventing Search Console from reporting impressions and clicks for βJob listingβ and βJob detailsβ Search appearance types from April 16, 2026 onward. Weβre working to resolve this issue. This issue affects data logging only.β
Complaints. We first began noticing the complaints trickling in earlier this week, with several SEOs posting their concerns across social media.
@rustybrick Seems there is a bug in GSC where impressions and clicks for Google jobs traffic is being reported 0 since 16th, but traffic is still coming in via google_jobs_apply UTMhttps://t.co/0Ed28Jvzdjβ Max Peters (@maxjpeters) April 20, 2026
Why we care. If you noticed a drop in overall impressions and clicks, and then you dig in and find zero data from the job listings and details β then do not worry. This is a Google logging bug and it is on Googleβs side.
Google is still likely listing your job listings and sending traffic but it is not being tracked properly in Search Console right now.
Most enterprise SEO strategies die in slide decks. Beautiful presentations, airtight data, and solid recommendations, all collecting dust because nobody bought in.Β
Iβve watched it happen at companies with eight-figure marketing budgets. Iβve also watched a single SEO insight convince a company to create an entirely new business unit and make a multimillion-dollar investment.
The difference had nothing to do with the quality of the SEO work. Iβve spent 17 years finding out what it actually comes down to. Let me walk you through how to build an SEO strategy that gets the attention it deserves.
Before I get into what works, let me talk about the two failure modes I see again and again.
The founder, CMO, or whoever the decision-maker is often doesnβt come from an SEO background or have experience standing up a successful organic program. Many come from performance marketing.
They expect SEO to behave like PPC: invest money on Tuesday, see results on Wednesday. When it doesnβt, they deprioritize the channel, which creates a death spiral. Less investment leads to worse results, which βconfirmsβ their bias that SEO doesnβt work.
This oneβs on us. SEO leaders who get too deep into the technical weeds, who canβt translate their work into business language, and who never get a seat at the table because theyβre speaking a language nobody else in the room understands. They become consultants shouting into the void instead of strategic partners influencing decisions.
Both failure modes share the same root cause: a disconnect between what SEO can deliver and how the organization thinks about growth.
Most SEO leaders get this backwards. They walk into a meeting with the CEO armed with 40 slides of data: crawl reports, keyword rankings, and technical audits. Leadership doesnβt have time for that. Theyβre juggling a hundred priorities, and your data dump just became background noise.
Start with the story instead:
Then bring in the data to support the narrative.
The higher you go in your SEO career, the more critical it is to be a listener first. Before I present anything to a new CEO or CMO, I invest time in understanding their leadership style, the organizationβs macro challenges, and what the top three enterprise goals are. Not SEO goals β enterprise goals.
Then I frame every recommendation through that lens: βAs an enterprise, our goal is X. Hereβs how this recommendation gets us there.β When you do that, friction disappears. Nobody can argue against working toward a goal they already signed up for.
One tactic Iβve found consistently effective is anchoring conversations in competitor intelligence. Every CMO, every C-suite executive, cares deeply about competition.
When I show them, βHereβs what competitor A has been doing for five years, and hereβs the market position it earned them. Iβm not asking for five years, but I need a year, and thatβs being five times more efficient than they were,β the conversation shifts.Β
Youβre no longer justifying SEOβs existence. Youβre helping them win a competitive battle they already care about.
Hereβs the cross-functional playbook that has worked for me across multiple enterprises.
Your success at an enterprise depends on two teams: creative and engineering. But they have their own goals, their own KPIs, and their own OKRs. If you show up with a list of SEO requests, youβre just another stakeholder creating tickets.
Instead, I start by genuinely understanding what each team is trying to achieve β and I mean actually understanding it, not assuming. In my first month at any new company, I schedule 30-minute 1:1s with the leads of every team Iβll need to work with: product marketing, engineering, creative, brand, and analytics. I ask three questions:
I donβt mention SEO once in those conversations. By the end of that listening tour, I have a map:
I know exactly how to position every SEO recommendation as a solution to something they already care about, in their language, toward their goals.
In my previous role, I worked closely with a product marketing manager on naming a new feature. My research showed that thousands of prospects were searching for a specific term every month. Instead of framing it as an SEO recommendation, I said:Β
He got it immediately. Thatβs not an SEO win; itβs a product marketing win that SEO data enabled.
This approach transforms you from a requestor into a force multiplier. Youβre helping them hit their goals. Now they want to listen to you.
The best example I can give of enterprise SEO that drove real business impact came from a conversation I wasnβt even supposed to be part of.
Back in 2021, FreshBooks, my previous employer, was competing against a much larger incumbent, QuickBooks. Think David versus a Goliath with two times the feature set and more than a hundred times the budget.Β
During a cross-functional meeting, I heard the director of sales mention that they were losing prospects at the finish line. The reason was that small business owners would get excited about the product, but ultimately defer to their accountantβs recommendation. And the accountants were all loyal to the incumbent.
This was a business problem, but I saw a search-driven solution. I proposed building a professional accountant directory on our domain β a searchable database of FreshBooks certified partner accountants organized by city. (The approach was inspired by two concepts: Eli Schwartzβs product-led SEO framework and Ross Simmondsβ idea of building an SEO moat: something only your brand can do.)
The domain already had strong authority. Keyword research showed significant search volume for terms like βaccountant near me,β βbookkeeper in [city],β and similar local queries across hundreds of markets in the U.S. and Canada.
The strategy was a triple win. Small business owners would find a vetted professional. Accountants would get qualified leads, and because our site outranked their own websites in their local markets, they had a strong incentive to join the program.
For every accountant we onboarded, weβd gain multiple end customers they managed. It also addressed churn: freelancers who grew their businesses and hired accountants were leaving for the competitor. A partner accountant ecosystem would keep them.
I built the full business case with sizing data, the potential to scale from low triple-digit partners to more than 10,000, and presented it up the chain: director of performance marketing, VP of marketing, and CMO. Each approved it. We hired an agency and spent six months building it.
Did the directory launch? Not in its original form. Halfway through the build, the company recognized the strategic importance of the accountant channel so clearly that they created an entirely new business unit, invested multimillions in the accounting product line, and eventually built something much larger than what Iβd originally proposed.
Thatβs what a strategy that drives real organizational change looks like. The SEO insight didnβt just get approved; it fundamentally reshaped the companyβs thinking about an entire market segment.
Everything Iβve described β the narrative framing, the OKR retrofitting, and the cross-functional listening tour β used to be a competitive advantage. Now itβs the minimum requirement, because the AI visibility shift has made cross-functional alignment a survival skill, not a leadership style.
We started tracking traffic coming from LLMs separately. What I found was revealing: conversion rates from LLM-referred traffic were four to six times higher than traditional organic. Users arriving through AI-assisted search had already done their research inside the LLM. They were arriving with high intent and ready to act.
But hereβs the challenge: roughly 85% of the sources that LLMs cite when generating responses about your products and services are third-party sites. If you want to influence what AI says about your products, you canβt do it alone. You need alignment with affiliate teams, PR, brand, product marketing, and even legal.
I essentially did a roadshow internally, went to every department, and explained (with data):
In the old world, you could publish content, build links, and win at SEO in relative isolation. That world is over.Β
Enterprise SEO in the AI era requires the same cross-functional alignment Iβve been describing throughout this article, but now itβs not just a competitive advantage. Itβs survival.
If youβre stepping into an enterprise SEO leadership role for the first time, or inheriting a function thatβs been siloed and undervalued, hereβs the approach Iβd recommend.
Find one low-effort, high-impact win and execute it immediately. Show is 10 times more important than tell in enterprise SEO.
Early wins build credibility. Once leadership sees tangible impact, they become more open to listening. The more they listen, the more you can educate, and the less friction you face.
Building an enterprise SEO strategy that drives real business impact isnβt about having the best technical audit or the most comprehensive keyword research. Itβs about building an organization that thinks about search as a foundational growth lever.
That means being a listener before youβre a presenter. It means speaking in business outcomes, not SEO jargon. It means helping your cross-functional partners hit their goals first, and baking SEO into their success.
It means being willing to follow an insight wherever it leads, even if it ends up bigger than anything you originally proposed. The accountant directory I pitched was a six-month SEO project. The outcome was a multimillion-dollar business unit. Thatβs what happens when the organization believes SEO is worth investing in, because youβve shown them why.
Search campaigns often see strong early gains β more visibility, traffic, and conversions. But that growth doesnβt last forever. At some point, performance stalls, whether it shows up as a plateau, volatility, or rising costs.
That slowdown isnβt necessarily a failure. More often, it signals limits in demand, targeting, conversion, or execution β the challenge is figuring out which one.
Search performance doesnβt stay linear, and once early wins are exhausted, quick gains become harder to find. When growth stalls, the instinct is to do more β launch campaigns, publish content, increase spend. But without understanding the constraint, that effort can miss the mark.
Instead, the goal is to diagnose whatβs actually limiting performance so you can focus on the changes that unlock the next phase of growth.
When performance drops off, thereβs a natural reaction to do more. The discipline of taking a step back and having a mindset of auditing, or seeking to understand what is really going on, is key to understanding the situation.
While the answer very well may be to launch more campaigns, increase budgets, or publish more content, chances are that it will be a wasted effort and possibly compound the problem. In many cases, time is of the essence, and we donβt have time to spend a month on a forensic audit. Plus, it isnβt always necessary.
A set of questions within a diagnostic framework can quickly help you identify whatβs happening.
This might already be answered, as a specific KPI might have triggered the concern to start with. However, itβs important to understand where the performance gap is happening.
Knowing what metrics are stable can help isolate variables in your search for answers. The more you can isolate the issue, the better you can diagnose problems and more quickly get to resolution steps.
Digging into upstream items includes demand and targeting, while downstream leads to the website and conversions. Getting granular with where performance is impacted in the journey helps greatly.
Limits can include considering if an opportunity has been maxed out, leading to a plateau. And, gaps can include considering if something is missing or is misaligned in the journey, tech, and end-to-end ecosystem.
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Iβm starting with demand, as it can be one of the most frustrating causes of performance plateaus or negative changes, as itβs one that is difficult or impossible for marketing leaders and teams to change on their own.
If impressions plateau, impression share remains high, rankings are strong, but you have limited new keyword opportunities, you might simply be at the mercy of changes in demand for your product or service. This could be due to global economic reasons, seasonality, or very niche market reasons.
Early growth often comes from capturing existing market demand. But, eventually, that demand can be saturated, and more campaigns and optimization unfortunately canβt fix this β and can only hurt the ROI we already have.
When exploring demand issues, you can expand your keyword and targeting universe, adjacent topics and subject matter (if still relevant to your product/service), seek out new audiences/personas, or consider expanded geography. All of these have to make sense for your business, though.
If you have inconsistent performance across campaigns, content, or landing pages, you might have some targeting and/or coverage gaps. This often looks like inconsistent performance across campaigns and pages, missed segments of the funnel, and uneven coverage of the audience.
The good news is that opportunity exists, and demand isnβt the issue, and you can identify and fill the gaps in intent coverage and ensure that all stages of the customer journey are covered. I see this most often when thereβs a focus primarily on bottom-of-the-funnel users and not a full-funnel strategy.
You can consider keyword clustering/structure, segmentation of your campaigns, and ensuring that your content is mapped really well to specific intents and stages in the journey.
When traffic grows but conversions donβt, if you have a declining conversion rate, or strong visibility with weak outcomes, your website might be the bottleneck and cause.
Search can do the job of getting the visitor to the site, but if the website is hurting potential outcomes or causing a mismatch between expectations of the visitor and the ultimate experience they have on the landing page, you have a website constraint.
Landing page alignment to intent and the subject matter, and a strong user experience, are sometimes afterthoughts. A lot of focus can go into the content, topics, and targeting without considering the full experience. Trust signals, messaging clarity, clear conversion paths, and removing UX friction are key to getting the expected ROI on search.
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If youβre experiencing rising cost per acquisition numbers, declining return on ad spend, or a higher cost for incremental growth, then youβve likely hit a ceiling on efficiency.
Early efficiency gains are often easier to find and achieve. When you get further into a campaign management phase, you may find that scaling requires tradeoffs and cost increases that are marginal when you expand.
You can consider different bid strategies, creative, or ad fatigue, audience expansion, and even what it looks like in how youβre balancing efficiency versus scale in your efforts.
When you increase content creation and output with limited gains from the investment/effort, see stagnant visibility, or keyword cannibalization, you might be finding that more content isnβt necessarily the answer within your strategy.
Early on, you might have experienced gains from filling content gaps and, with gaps filled, are now focused on adding depth. Sometimes, adding depth and continuing to scale content can create unintentional overlaps and dilute performance in hidden ways.
It might not seem intuitive, but evaluating if you need to consolidate content (instead of expand) to create a sharper focus and higher overall quality (versus quantity) could be the best option for you.
A focus on improving existing content, topical authority, and the content hierarchy and linking structure could be better for you than simply producing more and new content overall if youβre experiencing plateaus.
So maybe βdoing moreβ is the answer. Iβm not contradicting what I noted early on about how doing more isnβt typically the answer, but youβll know if that is a constraint and if you think itβs holding you back. In this case, it isnβt that youβre aimlessly adding more work, but you know that you have constraints with resources.
When you have a backlog that you canβt get to, slow implementation, or inconsistency in tactics, youβre likely limited by capacity.
Knowing what to do but not being able to execute isnβt rare or unique, and it can be frustrating to company and marketing leadership when you see what needs to be done, how itβs holding back results, creating plateaus, and if it isnβt something you can quickly fix.
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Itβs exciting to see search performance graphs trending βup and to the right,β and the impact that can have on the bottom line.
On the flip side, it can be frustrating, create stress, and be complicated to address when that positive performance stagnates or a plateau is reached. Typically, doing more and doubling down isnβt the right answer.
The complexity and number of potential variables that impact performance can be hard to identify and isolate. Leveraging a framework like the diagnostic I unpacked and understanding common reasons can help you sort out performance concerns faster and with greater clarity in your search marketing leadership and implementation.
Google TurboQuant was seen as a savior to the memory crisis; unfortunately, things will remain the same or get even worse from here. Google TurboQuant Isn't Going To Fix or Solve The Memory Crisis Back in March, Google launched a new algorithm called TurboQuant, which significantly compressed the KV Cache. The result was a drastic savings, up to 6x, in memory requirements for AI workloads. As soon as the algorithm was announced, reports emerged that memory prices were seeing a drastic price reduction. It was easy to link Google's TurboQuant to the price drop, and some went into panic mode, [β¦]
Read full article at https://wccftech.com/everyone-thought-google-turboquant-would-solve-the-memory-crisis-but-makes-it-worse/
NVIDIA has revealed the latest batch of games joining its cloud gaming GeForce NOW service, with the Vampire Survivors spin-off title, Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard leading the pack, but this week's batch isn't all about the games. NVIDIA is also adding a significant quality-of-life improvement to the service, making it a little more seamless and easier to use for players. Starting with the games, there are six titles either joining the cloud streaming service or getting updates for a better experience, like Crimson Desert, one of the year's biggest releases so far which joined GeForce NOW at its launch [β¦]
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AMD's restriction on FSR 4 on previous-gen Radeon GPUs remains a secret, but the former FSR 4 head of development seems to have an answer. AMD's EX FSR Head of Development Puts Up "Big Trouble" Meme After Being Questioned on AMD's Silence on INT8 FSR 4 Version for RDNA 2/3 GPUs It has been over a year since FSR 4 made its debut alongside the launch of AMD RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 9000. Since then, AMD has maintained complete silence on questions relating to FSR 4 on RDNA 2 and 3 series. While NVIDIA kept newer DLSS versions available for [β¦]
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While everyone wants faster hardware, Intel says the answer lies in software optimization, and the P and E cores are almost identical in gaming performance. Robert Hallock Says E-Cores Don't Degrade Gaming Performance and PC Enthusiasts are "Underestimating" the Importance of Software Intel might not have been able to deliver X3D-equivalent performance in gaming with its latest Core Ultra 200 series, but it has gotten closer with the Plus variants. While still noticeably behind when it comes to the leading gaming performance, Intel blames this regression more on the "software" optimization than the hardware itself. In an interview with PC [β¦]
Read full article at https://wccftech.com/intels-hallock-blames-software-not-silicon-for-gaming-gap-claims-30-performance-is-hiding-behind-poor-optimization/
The prices of AMD's Ryzen CPUs have increased by more than 50%, signaling a panic in the DIY market amid heightened AI demand. Japanese Users Are Paying Up To 57% More For AMD Ryzen CPUs As The AI-Related Price Bumps Continue In a report published by PC Watch, it is stated that the Japanese DIY market is seeing a huge surge in hardware prices. While DRAM and GPU prices are way above their original rates, the next component that is being affected is the CPU. The report lists several AMD Ryzen CPUs, mainly the new Ryzen 9000 parts, seeing over [β¦]
Read full article at https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-cpu-prices-increase-over-50-percent/
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What Google's systems actually do with click data and what it means for SEO and rankings.
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TSMC doesnβt need High-NA EUV to complete its current roadmap β A12, A13, and N2U nodes unveiled TSMC has unveiled its newest technology roadmap, which extends until 2029. On it, TSMC has unveiled three new lithography nodes, none of which require High-NA EUV machines. TSMC believes that standard Low-NA EUV machines will be used for [β¦]
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Windows handhelds may have found a breakthrough. FSR 4 INT8, XeFG, and XeLL can turn compromised 30 FPS gaming into smooth 60 FPS play, making devices like the Legion Go far more capable than expected.
Intel's upcoming Z970 motherboards for Nova Lake-S Desktop CPUs will replace both high-end Z890 and mainstream B860 options. Intel Z970 Motherboards To Cover An Extensive Market With Both High-End & Mainstream Options For Nova Lake Builders Intel's 900-series motherboards will have a wide range of options for PC builders. The flagship Z990 chipset will be the recommended choice for enthusiast Nova Lake Desktop CPUs, featuring a dual compute tile configuration, while the Z970 chipset will retain a primary focus on the high-end market. Based on a new post by Jaykihn at X, it looks like the Z970 chipset may not [β¦]
Read full article at https://wccftech.com/intel-z970-chipset-cover-both-z890-high-end-b860-mainstream-tiers-for-nova-lake/
Despite having been originally released on PlayStation 4, Final Fantasy VII Remake never made it to the original Nintendo Switch, debuting on the Nintendo Switch 2 earlier this year with one of the most impressive third-party ports we have seen to date. The last-generation Nintendo system, with some pointed modifications, however, can run the PC version of the game surprisingly well, even with the performance overhead of the Box64 + Wine translation layer required to get the PC version to run on an ARM-based system. This impressive technical feat was achieved by modder Naga, who detailed the creation of a [β¦]
Read full article at https://wccftech.com/final-fantasy-vii-remake-8gb-switch-lite-square-enix-never-attempted/
South Korean-Japanese developer NEXON has announced a new PC game called Embers of the Uncrowned. It's an isometric dark fantasy MMORPG developed by a team of self-described "hardcore MMORPG veterans" with a deep passion for the genre, set on a continent ravaged by an elven invasion. In the game, players take the role of the illegitimate heir to House Harborwell. They're a mercenary called back by destiny to reclaim their lost domain and restore their noble house. The players' character growth is directly tied to theirΒ House's growth. Constructing buildings in the settlement produces essential items for the journey, while upgrading [β¦]
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While we wait for the first Intel Core Series 3 "Wildcat Lake" laptops to make it to retail, the company has showcased its own reference design, which offers a clean design with a slim aluminum body. Intel Shows How Wildcat Lake Laptops Should Be Done With Its Reference Design, Awesome Colors & Fanless Operating In Low-Power Mode Last week, Intel announced its Core Series 3 "Wildcat Lake" CPUs. These CPUs will be powering laptops, with MacBook Neo being aimed as their main competitor. Now, Intel is showcasing its own reference design to the press, and honestly, it looks great. First [β¦]
Read full article at https://wccftech.com/intel-wildcat-lake-laptop-direct-aim-macbook-neo-aluminum-body-breezy-colors-fanless-mode/
Earlier this month, we reported that The Super Mario Galaxy Movie by Nintendo and Universal's Illumination set the biggest theatrical debut of 2026 in the United States. However, maintaining momentum across all territories was far from a given, especially with the rather scathing reviews from film critics. Now, according to data collected by IMDbPro's Box Office Mojo, it appears that The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is the highest-grossing film released this year, with nearly $756 million grossed across all territories. It's an almost even split: $361,825,355 earned in the United States (47.9%) and $393,990,000 earned elsewhere (52.1%), with Mexico leading [β¦]
Read full article at https://wccftech.com/super-mario-galaxy-movie-highest-grossing-2026/
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Google has been a proud part of Austriaβs landscape for years, and today, weβre announcing our first data center in Kronstorf, generating 100 direct jobs. This facility β¦
JEDEC is shifting the focus of LPDDR6 from mobile platforms to datacenters β Thanks AI Last year, JEDEC unveiled its JESD209-6 LPDDR6 memory standard, a new high-bandwidth memory type designed for phones, laptops, and other mobile platforms. Now, JEDEC has previewed new updates to the standard, shifting its focus from mobile platforms to βdatacenter and [β¦]
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Forza Horizon 5 launched on PlayStation 5 last year, and a few short months after its release, it was evident how the game was a smashing success on Sony's console, outselling even first-party games. Today, co-developer Virtuos confirmed on its official website that the racing game they helped develop was one of the best-selling games in 2025, surpassing 5 million copies worldwide. "Forza Horizon 5 was one of the best-selling titles on PlayStation 5 in 2025, surpassing 5 million copies sold on the platform, and earning widespread acclaim with a 92 Metacritic score," Virtuos wrote on a new infographic. The [β¦]
Read full article at https://wccftech.com/forza-horizon-5-5-million-sales-ps5-burying-xbox-exclusives/
Today, South Korean developer Pearl Abyss released Crimson Desert patch 1.04 on nearly all platforms (Mac users will have to wait until a later time). This update adds most of the enhancements and features outlined a couple of weeks ago in the official roadmap, except for boss rematches, which will be released in a future patch. Three difficulty modes (Easy, Normal, and Hard) have been added under Settings > Play.Β EasyΒ reduces damage taken, lowers enemy stats, and extends Parry/Dodge windows.Β NormalΒ is unchanged from the existing gameplay experience.Β HardΒ arguably brings the most significant changes: food effects only apply after the full consumption animation completes, [β¦]
Read full article at https://wccftech.com/crimson-desert-patch-1-04-difficulty-settings-controls-visuals/
Alienware unleashes its most powerful Area-51 Desktop PC to date, powered by the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 CPU & a starting price of $4299. Dell's Area-51 PC With AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Starts at $4299 & Fully-Spec'd Config Above $7000 Alienware recently launched its Area-51 Desktop PC with AMD's Ryzen 9000 & Ryzen 9000X3D CPUs. The gaming PC offers full-on ATX hardware, delivering impressive capabilities for pre-built gamers. Today, Alienware is updating its Area-51 Desktop PC with AMD's newly launched Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 CPU, delivering faster speeds of up to 5.6 GHz, and the same 2nd Gen 3D V-Cache that [β¦]
Read full article at https://wccftech.com/alienware-stuffs-area-51-desktop-with-amd-ryzen-9-9950x3d2-cpu-starting-at-4299-usd/
Rambus has announced its LPDDR5X SOCAMM2 memory chipset, a vital component to enable the next-gen compact memory for AI datacenters. SOCAMM2 Lays The Key Foundation of Next-Gen AI Datacenters As Rambus Gears Up Its LPDDR5X-Based Chipset For Launch Press Release: Rambus, a premier chip and silicon IP provider making data faster and safer, today announced aΒ SOCAMM2Β (Small Outline Compression Attached Memory Module)Β chipsetΒ designed to enableΒ low-power, high-performance LPDDR5X-based memory modulesΒ forΒ AI server platforms. The SOCAMM2 chipset represents the first step in a broader Rambus roadmap of LPDDR-based server module solutions, reflecting the companyβs ongoing collaboration with industry partners to support new memory architectures optimized [β¦]
Read full article at https://wccftech.com/rambus-builds-missing-piece-of-ai-servers-socamm2-favorite-ai-memory-standard/
JEDEC has previewed its LPDDR6 memory standard, powering future AI datacenters & mobile platforms with 512 GB capacities & SOCAMM2 variants. JEDEC's LPDDR6 SOCAMM2 Modules Are Going To Be A Mouth-Watering Piece of Memory Technology For AI Datacenters Today, JEDEC unveiled a new set of features for its upcoming LPDDR6 memory standard "JESD209-6". The new memory standard will play a vital role in powering future AI datacenters, PCs, and mobile platforms. LPDDR6 will not just provide a more power-efficient memory solution, but it will also offer increased performance and higher capacities than existing LPDDR5 and LPDDR5X standards. Memory makers are [β¦]
Read full article at https://wccftech.com/jedec-lpddr6-memory-socamm2-modules-512-gb-capacities/
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GigTrip is a tool for discovering concerts on a map and planning travel around them. You can explore events across Europe and the US, filter them by genre and date, view detailed event pages, and build multi-modal routes to the concert venue. GigTrip is designed for people who want to plan travel around live music, not just discover events in one location.
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TSMC has presented its latest technology roadmap through 2029, bringing advanced processes such as A13 and A12 by 2029. TSMC Reluctant To Use ASML's Advanced EUV Machines Due To Cost Constraints, Focuses On Die Shrinks For 2029 With A13 & A12 During TSMC's 2026 North American Technology Symposium, the company presented its latest roadmap, which includes some major updates. These new processes will offer a further refinement, such as savings in area size, and the utilization of new technologies. Starting with the roadmap itself, following the mass production of its N2 process technology, which is expected in the first products [β¦]
Read full article at https://wccftech.com/tsmc-maps-out-a13-a12-nodes-for-2029-sidesteps-asml-priciest-euv-tools-for-now/
Intel 14A finally has a big name backing it up, and it's Elon Musk, who will be leveraging the process technology at the TeraFab project. Intel & Elon Partnership Deeper Than Expected As Musk Announces 14A Process Technology For Tesla's TeraFab During its Q1 2026 earnings call, Tesla CEO Elon Musk made it official that the TeraFab project was going to use 14A, Intel's much-discussed process technology, which is expected to be a game-changer for them in the Foundry business. Elon stated that they (Tesla) are excited to use the Intel 14A process, calling it "State-of-the-Art". He also acknowledged that [β¦]
Read full article at https://wccftech.com/intel-14a-wins-elon-musk-as-state-of-the-art-process-tech-to-be-deployed-at-terafab/
RawImage is an unfiltered AI image generator that delivers professional-quality results in about three seconds while keeping your prompts and images private. Buy credits with crypto, avoid subscriptions, and choose Fast, HD, or Max modes across multiple aspect ratios. Operated by an Austrian company, it follows GDPR and the EU AI Act, auto-deletes data on your schedule, and stores no logs. Use it in your browserβno GPU or setup requiredβto create anything you imagine.
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Crowledge makes your Notion a single source of truth by turning your Slack into verified, up-to-date content and making it instantly accessible from Slack. Flag any Slack message with an emoji to capture high-value information. Upload transcripts or documents and let Crowledge structure and update your pages in Notion. Create new pages that follow your templates. Every change goes through your approval directly from Slack or Notion. Ask any question from Slack and get precise, cited answers instantly.
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Clamp is web analytics for indie hackers and small teams, shipping with AI. Install the SDK, connect the MCP server to Claude (or any MCP client), and the agent that wrote the code can see how it performed. Ask how the new onboarding flow is doing, and the agent runs the numbers, walks through the funnel, and ties the results back to the changes it shipped. Underneath, it's a normal analytics tool with pageviews, sessions, referrers, custom events, funnels, cohorts, and alerts. Cookie-free and EU-hosted.
Called It is a social prediction game where you vote on real-world events and call your friendsβ moves using virtual Cred. You can create groups and post Yes/No, Who, Over/Under, When, Most Likely To, and Rate predictions, watching odds shift in real time. Track a Prediction Score with friends and a Market Accuracy score against the world. Play free on iOS and Android with no cash, crypto, or payouts. Use anonymous mode, spark debates with the AI Shit-Stirrer, and settle outcomes with real-life forfeits your group chooses.
ZenMode is a desktop LinkedIn outreach automation tool that runs on your machine for account safety and better deliverability. It opens a real Chrome session, uses AI to draft personalized messages and voice notes, and executes multi-step sequences with human-like delays and smart rate limits. Track connections, replies, and meetings, and sync to HubSpot, Zapier, or webhooks. Sangha Intelligence learns from anonymized campaign performance to suggest openers, tones, and timing that get replies so your first campaign performs like a veteran's.
Multiverse Stories lets you write collaborative fiction with branching paths. Start a tale, invite friends to continue it, and fork any moment to explore different "what if" scenarios. Share drafts for feedback before publishing, then discover new work by browsing genres, following authors, and rating the narratives that move you. Build worlds together and see where every choice leads.
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Users will be able to compete for top visitor spots based on their activity and share their rankings with friends.
The subject-specific feeds will allow users to choose from lists curated around the top 75 discussion topics, and echoes a similar feature Twitter once offered.
Ryan Roslansky will take on a position within parent company Microsoft, and LinkedIn Chief Operating Officer Daniel Shapero will succeed him.
The new artificial intelligence-optimized project in Tulsa, Oklahoma, will be the companyβs first in the state and its 32nd globally.
The chatbot will now be available across major global markets and feature enhanced local language support, making it more accessible for creators and advertisers.
The feature will allow select creators and fans to engage in real-time discussions during live events, similar to Instagramβs Broadcast Channels.
Mentio checks whether your brand appears in AI chatbot answers when people ask for recommendations in your category. It runs real prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, shows your ranking versus competitors, tracks sentiment, and gives you a visibility score. Built for the Spanish-speaking market first, it is the only AI visibility tool in Spanish and works for any brand in any language.
You should always enter into peer-to-peer transactions with circumspection and a fair degree of cautious wariness. That's the painful lesson a guileless Australian is now learning after being scammed out of his Apple iPhone by a crafty trickster. A quick-to-trust Australian becomes a victim of obviously fake banknotes, loses his Apple iPhone to a scammer Imagine you put up your old iPhone for sale on an online marketplace. After a while, you get a ping along with a fairly good offer. Everything checks out, and you ask the buyer to come by your home to collect the iPhone after paying [β¦]
Read full article at https://wccftech.com/a-seller-loses-iphone-to-a-scammer-who-paid-with-fake-notes-props-stamped-in-plain-sight/
Fork lets users build their own features on top of your SaaS application without touching your codebase. Think open source but for private software. You define what's forkable, set permissions and constraints, and your users customize from there. Product teams can then pull the most valuable features back to the main branch. Instead of saying "no" to feature requests, you say "go build it."
