Category: Newsletter
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Google’s Spam Update, AI Citations & Newsletter Benchmarks | HighDegree* Marketing – Issue 25
A spam update, community content wins, AI traffic data, and paid newsletter benchmarks for 2026. Hi Marketers, Welcome to the new issue of HighDegree*: Cutting Through the Noise in SEO & Digital Marketing. This week’s lineup moves between policy and platform mechanics. Google quietly rolled out its second spam update of 2026 and tightened the…
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Why Your Listicle Might Be Helping Competitors Win | HighDegree* – Issue 24
AI citations vs recs, AIO triggers, Gemini Siri, OKF & Google’s loyalty play.
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May Core Update Recap: Reddit Wins, Clicks Disappear & AI Trust Lags | HighDegree* – Issue 23
What the May update, Reddit, and AI citations mean for your site.
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GSC Tracks AI Traffic, Listicles Win Citations & Google Core Chaos | HighDegree* – Issue 22
Your AI visibility data is finally here, but there’s a catch.
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The Search Traffic Wake-up Call Every Publisher Needs to Read | HighDegree* – Issue 21
AI content risks, zero-click SEO, Google’s advice, product packs, and why Condé Nast stopped forecasting search traffic.
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Your Internal Links Might Be Hurting Your Rankings and 38% Fewer Clicks. Is Your SEO Strategy Ready? | HighDegree* – Issue 20
The click drop is confirmed. Here’s what to do about it. AI Overviews, broken links, and the case for being helpful.
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Your GSC Data was Lying, Branded Filters, AI Content Limits, and a New Crawler You Didn’t Invite | HighDegree* – Issue 19
What 16 months of AI content experiments actually revealed, Google’s new web agent, Plus where influence really happens across 5,000 of the web’s most visited sites
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AI Search Is Rewriting the Rules — Are You Ready? | HighDegree* – Issue 18
LinkedIn, Google’s personal AI, news traffic, Search vs. Gemini, ChatGPT citations — all this week in Marketing.
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Is Google About to Replace Your Landing Pages, AI Content Risks, TikTok is now a Search Engine | HighDegree* – Issue 17
Plus how AI is shifting jobs and why Google cites itself 1 in 5 times. Five stories covering the trends quietly reshaping your traffic, content, and visibility in search.
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ChatGPT vs Google, Reddit Search is Now 80 Million Users & What AI Reads| HighDegree* – Issue 16
why the markdown shortcut could hurt your site, how Reddit is completing searches without Google, what makes ChatGPT cite your content, Google’s new WebMCP protocol that may define the next era.