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Do Y'all Even Know My Name? · Sep 23, 2026

People ask how to show up in AI. If your brand name is missing from Google Search Console, start there. Workshop worksheet included.

Issue 41 · Jul 24, 2026

ChatGPT can now read your Yelp page: OpenAI's licensing deal pulls reviews, ratings, and quote requests into local answers. Plus Gemini closes in on a billion users, and Google and Anthropic both open up their AI-usage data.

Issue 40 · Jul 10, 2026

ChatGPT's Ads Manager adds suppression lists, Ask YouTube rolls out to every US desktop, GPT-Live puts web search inside voice conversations, and Search Console starts measuring your Instagram and TikTok posts.

Issue 39 · Jul 3, 2026

The B.I.S.C.U.I.T. framework for AI search, Cloudflare's September 15 defaults that might block Googlebot, what 1 million keywords say about the search shift, and why the chatbot interface is on its way out.

Issue 38 · Jun 26, 2026

A new Knowatoa case study with TRMNL, Google Research on model memory, llms.txt is theater, and Claude's gains are ChatGPT's pains.

Issue 37 · Jun 19, 2026

Why AI hallucinations and Reddit manipulation share a root cause, Lily Ray's data on listicles recommending competitors 69% of the time, the Pew 60% AI-summary number is a floor, the 30-second test for AI Mode landing pages, and Google's two AI tracks: search vs. agent tooling like OKF.

Issue 36 · Jun 11, 2026

AI citations on LinkedIn (articles 57%, profiles 2.7%), Google liable for false AI Overviews, publishers vs Common Crawl, and brand sentiment at the model level now that Siri runs on Gemini.

Issue 35 · Jun 4, 2026

Clever ways people are using paid ads to augment content, AI overview impressions in Search Console (no clicks), why agentic traffic is still just bots, and verifying what AI says about your clients.

Issue 34 · May 29, 2026

How to get your site recommended via YouTube. Microsoft Clarity's free Share of Authority. SEL on brand depth. Google's AI shopping tracker. AI models disagree on 67% of fact checks. Google's Preferred Sources and Highly Cited badges.

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