Rank Tracker Data, ChatGPT Tags & AI Search Links – SEO Pulse via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
A rank tracker logged Google pages missing their usual sites, some ChatGPT links lost tracking tags, and Google and Bing changed AI search links.
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Content everywhere: Winning attention in a fragmented marketing landscape
Digital fragmentation is pushing teams to their limits. On Nov. 4, learn how to stretch content budget and capture buyer attention where it counts.
AI Search
Reach CEO touts Google AI deal as a template, steps up pressure on OpenAI over scraping
Digiday spoke with Reach CEO Piers North about his plans to make its Google AI content deal a blueprint framework for other LLM deals, and its recent cease-and-desist letter to OpenAI.
Content Strategy
How to Automate Content Creation: A Follow-Along Guide
When people hear “automated content creation”, I imagine they picture something like this: Enter a keyword, click a button, and poof! An article is made. From there, they’ll generate 500 articles before the day ends and publish all of them. … Read more ›
SEO
Social commerce edges past SEO at The Independent for the first time
The Independent’s social-commerce revenue edged past its SEO-based commerce revenue for the first time in September, CEO Christian Broughton said at Digiday’s Media Strategies event in London this week.
AI Search
Why AI Makes Content Ecosystems Essential
Key Takeaways AI is changing more than how quickly marketers can create content. It is changing how marketing teams operate. McKinsey’s latest research argues that AI is moving organizations away from campaign-based marketing and toward continuous growth…
Media & Publishing
HubSpot’s Unbound 2026: The big announcements and updates
Unbound 2026 saw big product announcements on the main stage and other news that flew under the radar. Let’s break it all down for you.