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Google Has Started Paying Some Publishers When Their Content Feeds AI Answers

The AI Contribution pilot pays invited publishers when their content significantly contributes to AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini responses. Invite-only, no published formula, and no way to apply.

Sep 14, 2026 · 5 min read

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Apple Maps Ads Are Six Weeks Old and the First Performance Reports Are Landing

Sep 14, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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A DeepMind Paper Says One Model Can Replace the Two-Stage Ranking Pipeline. It Is Not in Google Search.

Sep 14, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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Only 13.9% of Bloggers Report Strong Results — and AI Isn't the Reason

Sep 14, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google Ads Will Now Bid More for Your Loyalty Members — If You Hand Over the List

Sep 14, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google Analytics Finally Has Dashboards Again

Sep 14, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google Has Put a Number on Your First-Party Data — and It's Selling the Number

Sep 14, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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Merchant Center Product Videos Are an Organic Surface, Not Just an Ads Asset

Sep 14, 2026 · 5 min read · Paul Lovell

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AdSense Is Now Picking Your Consent Message Based on Revenue

Sep 14, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google Can Lose Faith in a Whole Site, Not Just the Bad Pages

Sep 11, 2026 · 5 min read · Paul Lovell

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Search Console's Missing June Data Isn't Coming Back

Sep 11, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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Amazon Opens ChatGPT Ads to Its Advertisers — While OpenAI Shuts Rivals Out

Sep 11, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google Is Now Branding Search Profiles You Never Claimed

Sep 11, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google Ads Is Revoking Promotional Credits After Advertisers Have Already Spent Them

Sep 11, 2026 · 3 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google's Mueller: The Old 'Position 1-10' Is Hard to Map Now

Sep 11, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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131 SEOs Ranked Google's Ranking Factors — Relevance, Links and Quality Lead

Sep 10, 2026 · 5 min read · Paul Lovell

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Scammers Are Hiding Phone Numbers in Google Maps Photos — And Reports Aren't Sticking

Sep 10, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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The August Spam Update's Dividing Line Wasn't AI — It Was Automation

Sep 10, 2026 · 5 min read · Paul Lovell

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Merchant Center Will Require 500×500 Product Images From January 2027

Sep 10, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google Rewrote Its Location Asset Requirements — But Nothing Actually Changed

Sep 10, 2026 · 3 min read · Paul Lovell

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AI Mode Surfaces Products 21.6% More Expensive Than Traditional Search

Sep 10, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell