🚨 Breaking Google News: Gemini can now help manage your Google Business Profile. You will soon be able to connect your Business Profile directly to Gemini and ask it to help with things that normally require going into the GBP dashboard.

6 Ways to Automate International Marketing with Agent A

This weeks brief is about why rebrands, rebuilds and growth are only painful when your digital foundations are weak. The devil really is in the details. Signals over noise, as always. Read it here: mailchi.mp/nuanceme/the...

Fantastic venue for a business pitch this morning: The Signet Library, Edinburgh. Home of the WS Society since the early 1800s, with roots back to 1594. George IV reputedly called the Upper Library 'the finest drawing room in Europe'. He had a point. #Edinburgh #Scotland #Architecture

this is why log file access matters :D

Travelling today, and have already done two good deeds. Mother with temper tamper toddler l distracted while she got her other kids shoe back on - then outside the train station helped rescue a cat who escaped its owners travel case. It’s not even 9am yet 😅 #Edinburgh #Travels #CatEscape

SEO benchmarking in 2026 -- why the data looks different and what to do about it. Issue 7 of The Nuance Brief is out. mailchi.mp/nuanceme/the...

Issue 6 of The Nuance Brief is out. Big week - Google I/O, WordPress 7.0 with native AI, and Google's first proper AI search guide. All in one place. mailchi.mp/nuanceme/the...

🟣 Underrated #TechSEO Tip Google has a crawl rate limit for every site. If your site is slow, it crawls fewer pages. Faster server response means more pages crawled. More pages crawled means faster discovery of new and updated content.

Banned for a year if you submit AI slop -> ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have “incontrovertible evidence” of AI-generated work

Coorie Bosie the cat getting her 5 mins of SEO fame 😸

Issue 5 of The Nuance Brief is out. Too many tools, not enough trust - and if you have ever inherited a website with 47 pending plugin updates, you already know what we mean. mailchi.mp/nuanceme/the...

It’s the boats

Impressions up 📈 Traffic down 📉 Direct traffic growing for no obvious reason 📊 Your measurement tools just haven't caught up with how search works now. This week's Nuance Collaborative Brief explains the gap; mailchi.mp/nuanceme/you...

68 Million AI Crawler Visits Show What Drives AI Search Visibility by @martinibuster.bsky.social via @sejournal.bsky.social @duda.co snip.ly/what-drives-...

Nearly 60% of Google searches end without a click. New blog: what AEO looks like in practice, and what the March 2026 Core Update confirmed. www.nuancecollaborative.com/your-traffic...

New podcast episode! In this episode I share about Gemini in Chrome, how I built a plant journal with Antigravity, UCP, WebMCP, WordPress' EmDash, Shopify's AI Toolkit, Andrej Karpathy's autoresearch and more. youtu.be/CmhzPhGGe1o

The AI Slop Loop

My apple mouse is giving me permission to eat my brunch at my desk in peace while it’s charging - why did the product designers put the charger on the bottom? 🤷🏻‍♀️ #Hardware #Apple #Questions

💰 From Retrieved to Cited: How Commercial Content Earns Citations in AI Search - excellent research from @oshendavidson.bsky.social : www.airops.com/report/from-...

It’s April and we have snow in Edinburgh - it’s been all seasons today ☀️🌤️🌦️ 🌧️☔️ 🌤️ ❄️🫣

Gorgeous weather in Edinburgh this weekend - nice wee walk to the beach to break up some desk time 🌊

AI Search: How the data shows that Google is winning – yet everything is changing www.sistrix.com/blog/ai-sear...

Free webinar — April 2, 10 AM PT. Prompting for Duda Pros: how to generate website-ready AI content that fits your design. Hosting with Justin Sturges of StandOutResults. Register: www.duda.co/webinars/pro... #Duda #AIContent #WebDesign #Prompting

My tabby needs an only paws page - wow does she plow through food! She's had the all good from the vet recently... living with me must require a lot of energy 😅

Wanted to share this photo I took at the Grand Canyon in 2022. There is something about a tree that chooses to grow right at the edge of something so vast and deep. A good reminder that breathtaking things exist at life's most uncertain edges. Happy FriYay, rest and dream well ;>

Making shapes again - but not on the dance floor (well it is Wednesday =) #DigitalPlay #AppliedArt

That feeling you get when you are writing (with a pen) and the same word you just wrote is said at the same time on an unrelated topic during a podcast you are listing too…

Evenings in Edinburgh

Very interesting…

Tomorrow, Feb 26, live 5 hours of SEO in the age of AI Year 2026 @shelleywalsh.bsky.social @aleyda.bsky.social @dawnieando.bsky.social @dixonjones.bsky.social @shellyfagin.bsky.social @dergal.bsky.social @nataliavv.bsky.social @libby.day @duda.co www.duda.co/webinars/seo...

🤖 It's all about agentic search this week... Here is what it actually means for the businesses trying to be found by it. www.nuancecollaborative.com/the-agentic-... #AgenticSearch #AgenticAI #SEO #TechnicalSEO #B2BSEO #DigitalStrategy

Google Trends x Snowmageddon

Google Business Profiles With AI Generated Services

AI agents in SEO: A practical workflow walkthrough

The latest data from Ahrefs -> ChatGPT Has 12% of Google’s Search Volume but Google Sends 190x More Traffic to Websites Key points: *65% of ChatGPT usage qualifies as search, but can be lower *Google sends 190x more traffic to websites than ChatGPT *ChatGPT’s CTR is 96% lower than Google’s CTR

Google AI Overviews are shifting clicks from organic sites to paid product listings says @aleyda.bsky.social with @similarwebinsights.bsky.social data www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-ov... #googleaioverviews #google

FT joins latest group of Google AI deals. Also, Google commented about letting publishers opt out of AIOs... Sounds like they are working on it, but they said it's a 'huge engineering project.'

Twice since moving back to the UK my GMB profile has somehow updated to permanently (not by me) still use a physical address for the LLC, file taxes and have clients over there… what is more pay for Google Workspace and other services, from our US business account?! @searchliaison.bsky.social

My cat of the day! Credit to @libby.day #seocharity #catoftheday www.seocharity.com/upcoming-con...

📢 I’ll be joining a panel for Duda's SEO in the Age of AI MegaWebinar on 26 Feb, taking part in a session on The Agentic Turn for Search. Looking forward to a grounded conversation about what this actually means in practice, beyond the hype. 🔗 lnkd.in/e5eVrvDG

Really enjoyed this article from @lilyray.nyc 👏🏼 lilyraynyc.substack.com/p/a-reflecti...

Looks at Apple watch - shows me I've completed my exercise for the day!?? Apparently I've been doing kickboxing while sat at my desk this morning, metaphorically might be quite accurate 😅

👀 It’s official: ChatGPT will start to test ads in the US for the free and Go tiers users in the coming weeks and has shared their ads principles. Read more: openai.com/index/our-ap... /ht @lilyray.nyc

This month l switched my main SEO/Site monitoring software over after almost 9 years - always used various different platforms in tandem, as with all data the truth is somewhere in the middle. Lots of work getting everything migrated… if l could just get over this lingering lurgy 🦠 🙅🏻‍♀️🚀

16 Content Writing Tips From Experts To Survive 2026

Anyone have any new Web + SEO resolutions for 2026? I have a few I think...