Google Tests AI Headlines, Rolls Out Spam Update – SEO Pulse
Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect how your headlines appear in Search, how spam enforcement played out, and how…
Wikipedia Bans Use Of AI-Generated Content
Wikipedia recently published guidelines prohibiting the use of AI to generate or rewrite articles, except for two exceptions related to…
Google Takes Search Live Global With Gemini 3.1 Flash Live
Google is expanding Search Live to more than 200 countries and territories, bringing voice and camera conversations to AI Mode…
Google Adds New Performance Max Controls And Reporting Features
Google has announced a new set of updates to its Performance Max campaign type, focused on two areas advertisers have…
How To Avoid Top Down SEO Systems Failures With The Visibility Governance Maturity Model
Most SEO failures aren’t caused by bad SEOs. They’re caused by organizations that don’t have the systems to support them….
When The Training Data Cutoff Becomes A Ranking Factor
Every AI system serving answers today operates with two fundamentally different memory architectures, and the boundary between them runs along…
Are We Due Another Florida-Style Update?
Editor’s note: this article was written a few days before the core update that started to roll out on March…
Google’s March Spam Update Felt Muted But May Signal Bigger Changes
Google’s March 2026 Spam Update was welcomed by many in the SEO community who were hoping for relief from listicles,…
Google Analytics Launches Scenario Planner and Projections
Google Analytics has launched Scenario Planner and Projections, two new features designed to help advertisers plan and monitor paid media…
Half Your Traffic Left. The SEO Industry Sent Thoughts and Frameworks
Before AI Overviews launched in May 2024, Define Media Group’s portfolio of major U.S. publishers averaged 1.7 billion organic search…