Organic SEO & Search News

LinkedIn offers the option to report AI slop – The platform is testing a new feature that allows posts and comments to be privately flagged as being generated by artificial intelligence.

AI Search Is a 3rd-Party Citation Problem With an On-Page Corroboration Base: The Data Across SaaS, Ecommerce and Finance – International SEO Consultant, Author & Speaker | Aleyda Solis – Why the observed source mix makes social media and digital PR essential AI search workstreams and how the playbook changes by vertical and platform

Google Search Filter By Recent Not Working – If you try to filter you Google Search or Google News tab results by the recent search tools option, it simply won’t work. If you try to select the “Tools” and then “Recent” options, including the past hour option, it won’t listen to that filter and it won’t filter the content by the last hour.

Paid Search & Platform Innovations

Meta shares holiday 2026 tips for small businesses – The company offered guidance on how to plan for ad spending and promotional budgeting ahead of the upcoming shopping season.

General Digital Marketing

Snapchat will no longer recommend AI slop – The platform is updating its Spotlight feed to promote human-made content and downgrade anything wholly created by artificial intelligence.

Reddit’s user base grows to more than 130 million daily actives – The company’s Q2 performance update also showed robust revenue growth despite what CEO Steve Huffman called “choppy” search referrals.

LinkedIn reports solid Q2 revenue growth – Owner Microsoft doesn’t release many performance details, but LinkedIn CEO Daniel Shapero said there was also double-digit member growth.

This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot) – Listen now | Tom Verrilli explains why fewer, more senior PMs doing real IC work outperform any ratio-driven org structure.