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The Reputation Engagement I Would Rather Have Than the Friday Afternoon One

Posted on September 28, 2026 Written by Bill Hartzer

The Unofficial Ballot book

A reporter emails your company at 4:40 on a Friday asking for comment on something contested. You have about twelve hours before the absence of an answer becomes the answer. Most organizations spend those twelve hours arguing about what to say. [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Marketing

A Judge Ordered an Expert’s AI Prompts Produced. There Is Still No Standard, So I Wrote One

Posted on September 28, 2026 Written by Bill Hartzer

The Expert Record book

An expert witness sat for a deposition last year and was asked to produce the prompts he had typed into an AI system as he prepared his report. He did not have them. He had not kept them, because nobody had told him to, and no rule said he had to. [Continue reading]

Filed Under: AI

Facebook Says an Account Called “Meta Verrified” Sending Phishing Messages Doesn’t Violate Its Rules

Posted on September 18, 2026 Written by Bill Hartzer

meta verrified account

There are certain things you see on the internet that make you stop and wonder if you're missing something. … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Social Media

I Read 30 Digital Marketing Tool Licenses. Most Do Not Say What You Think.

Posted on September 17, 2026 Written by Bill Hartzer

You probably put a third-party traffic chart in a client deck this month. A Similarweb screenshot showing a competitor's monthly visits, a Semrush visibility graph, an Ahrefs backlink count. I have done it hundreds of times. … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Search Engine Optimization

131 SEO Experts Just Ranked Google’s Ranking Factors. Backlinks Did Not Die.

Posted on September 9, 2026 Written by Bill Hartzer

Cyrus and Dawn Shepard published the 2026 Google Ranking Factors Expert Survey this morning. One hundred thirty-one SEO professionals scored more than 100 possible ranking factors on a seven-point scale, from strongly positive to strongly negative, … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Search Engine Optimization

AI Local Business Recommendations Went From 6% To 45% In A Year. The Bigger Number Is 88%

Posted on September 9, 2026 Written by Bill Hartzer

AI search study

Forty-five percent of U.S. consumers used an AI tool to get a local business recommendation in the past twelve months. Last year that figure was 6 percent. … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Local Search

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  • The Reputation Engagement I Would Rather Have Than the Friday Afternoon One
  • A Judge Ordered an Expert’s AI Prompts Produced. There Is Still No Standard, So I Wrote One
  • Facebook Says an Account Called “Meta Verrified” Sending Phishing Messages Doesn’t Violate Its Rules
  • I Read 30 Digital Marketing Tool Licenses. Most Do Not Say What You Think.
  • 131 SEO Experts Just Ranked Google’s Ranking Factors. Backlinks Did Not Die.
  • AI Local Business Recommendations Went From 6% To 45% In A Year. The Bigger Number Is 88%
  • IAB: 56% Want Creator Voices In AI Shopping Advice, But Nobody Can Verify Which Creators Are Honest
  • Semrush Says Showing Up Once In A ChatGPT Category Is Worse Than Not Showing Up
  • Semrush Studied 1,094 ChatGPT Categories. The Number That Matters Is Not 53.7%.
  • Study: Home Service Companies That Track Profit Instead of Leads Get 38% More From Their Ad Spend
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