Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect how AI Mode links work, how local discovery works in Maps, and what you can do in Search Console. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Google AI Mode Self-Citations Tripled, With More Organic Links SE Ranking published its third report on
We know the pressure of being told to “break down silos” while new ones seem to pop up every time a new channel or tool is added to the stack. It’s a persistent reality in this role that technology often moves faster than our ability to connect it. At the
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Digital marketing usually gets discussed as one bucket in companies. It shows up in planning decks as a single line item, even though what sits underneath it is far more nuanced. SEO and PPC both live inside that bucket, but they don’t behave the same way once you start making
The ad spending numbers for 2026 looked good until the war in the Middle East made them provisional. Not because they were optimistic or vacuous about ad spending this year but because they were built on assumptions about a world that existed two weeks ago – one where the biggest
The British-Sudanese designer gives us an insight into the influences behind her kitschy, maximalist style, revealing how she’s using her unique visual language as a tool to challenge ideas around beauty and celebrate everything the West typically overlooks when searching for things that are designed “well”. Source link
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We’ve already tested you on the best 1920s logos quiz, but what about the best logos from the 1930s? This isn’t just a ‘guess the logo’ quiz, there are plenty of those around, but more of a logo trivia extravaganza. We include questions on everything from the Audi logo to
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